380. 1) Saturday Vespers for Palm Sunday, 2) How to Keep Holy Week

For those who may not know: I’m repeating my annual series of twice-daily Posts during Holy Week. Before we begin: This Holy Week please be sure to pray especially for the people of Ukraine, many of whom again this year will not be able to get to church because of the actions of (God help […]

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379. Lazarus Saturday Morning Divine Liturgy

Be sure to listen to this powerful hymn sung by the Boston Byzantine Choir.    from the Arabic Tone 6, by Metropolitan Athanasios Atallah of Homs – arranged by Bishop Basil of Antiochian Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America (from Orthodox Christian Chants site) Actually the Saturday of Lazarus is not Holy Week, which begins with […]

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377. Saint Joseph the Hymnographer: “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”.

I hope that’s not an irreverent way to introduce a saint – but every year when we come to Saint Joseph, that’s the saying that springs automatically into my mind. This man’s life was almost entirely “lemons” – it sounds like it’s out of a soap opera – and yet he “squeezed” great good out […]

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376: Three approaches to the Annunciation

  I can think of three possible ways this article might go: 1 I knew a young Protestant couple who were interested in Orthodoxy. They saw that a local Orthodox church was having services on the Friday evenings of Lent, so they went to check it out. The priest met them at the door and welcomed […]

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