Are You Fluent?

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Church, Orthodox, Prayer, Spirituality

Someone once said that “worship” is a verb. I actually think it’s a language.

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Pentecost: the Birth of the Church?

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Bible, Church, Feasts, Good News, Orthodox, Scripture

What do you say when someone starts singing “Happy Birthday” to the Church on Pentecost? Not so fast…

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Completing Pascha with Pentecost

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Bible, Church, Feasts, Good News, Gospel, Jesus Christ, Orthodox

This Sunday, we’ll be celebrating one of the Great Feasts of the Church, Pentecost. Most Christians know this feast as the celebration of the Holy Spirit. However, not many of us know of the connection to the Old Testament Feast

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Deacons and Iconography

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Church, Liturgics and Services, Orthodox

A friend sent me a photo of an icon he recently bought. It was an icon of St. Stephen, an early deacon in the Church. I recognized some of the attributes that marked him out as a deacon, but not

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Putting on Christ

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Orthodox, Scripture

Christ is risen! Now that Great Lent is over, I have the pleasure of greeting all my readers with “Christ is risen!” I also have more time to return to normal activity on this site. Traditionally, in the Orthodox Church,

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Our Sports Season Has Arrived!

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Church, Liturgics and Services, Orthodox, Spirituality

If the Orthodox Church were a sports team (or a ballet or musical group!), we would say that we’ve entered into our season!

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The Consecration of an Altar

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Church, Liturgics and Services, Orthodox

How is an Orthodox altar installed? Are there really relics in them? What’s the symbolism of the altar? All that and more!

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Three for the Price of One

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Christmas, Feasts, Iconography, Orthodox

Take a look at this icon. On the surface, it looks like a Theophany icon, but it’s so much more. How many other feasts can you see?

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Christ’s Cave of Wonders!

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Christmas, Church, Good News, Gospel, Iconography, Orthodox

Back by popular demand (from December 2015)! Was Christ born in the western manger or the eastern cave? Click below to dip deeper into the birth of Jesus!

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St Elias Founders’ Memorial

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Church, Orthodox

Memory Eternal to the Founders of St. Elias the Prophet. Your dream carries us forward into the 21st century.

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