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Photo: A few of the Myrrh Bearing Women at St Nino
How Did It Go? Kursk Icon Visit to Stillwater OK
By all accounts the visit of the holy Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God to Stillwater, OK was a smashing success. A few pictures can be seen below. The event was quite well attended, with 41 non-St Nino visitors coming and going during the course of the evening. While it is interesting to
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Pascha (Orthodox Easter) Photos May 2016
Here are a few photos from our mission parish’s Paschal Liturgy, midnight party and picnic the following day. 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, including about six million in North America, observe Pascha (known as Easter in the USA), each year. Since Orthodox churches base their Pascha date on the Julian calendar, which often differs from the
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Our First Palm Sunday. April 24, 2016
Palm leaves are not available in many of the Eastern countries that practise Christianity. One of the various species of pussy willow is often used instead. Eastern Catholic and Orthodox churches in Eastern Europe and Russia, as well as Western Christian churches in Northern Europe, use goat willow or grey willow. In the northern United
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Craft Project for the Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas
St. Gregory Palamas Source: Creative Hands St. Gregory Palamas is commemorated this coming Sunday (the second Sunday in Lent) in the Orthodox Church. He is remembered on this Sunday because the condemnation of his enemies and the vindication of his teachings by the Church in the 14th century was acclaimed as a second triumph
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Craft Project for Orthodox Sunday of the Cross
Sunday of the Adoration of the Holy Cross Source: Creative Hands The Third Sunday of Lent in the Orthodox Church is the Adoration of the Holy Cross. We decorated our own Russian style crosses with markers and pretty paper scraps. I drew a blank Russian style three bar cross on card stock and then let
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The Priest Came To Bless Our House And He Left With A Chicken…
Orthodox Christian have their homes blessed annually. Why do we have our homes blessed? We, as Christians, are engaged in a struggle to reclaim fallen nature for the Kingdom of God. We often talk about this in terms of our own salvation, but the Church, addressing all of creation in a wholistic manner,
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Clean Monday… Let’s Go Fly A Kite!
Clean Monday, is considered to be one of the most important feasts in the Orthodox world, each year commencing the 40-day period of the Great Lent for Orthodox Church. The feast begins on the first day of the 7th week before the Pascha (Orthodox Easter Sunday). Liturgically though, Clean Monday and thus Lent itself begins
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Get Outta Here. You Do What? Forgiveness Sunday…
We line up around the church, and then one by one we each proceed down the line, prostrating before each person and asking their forgiveness. Forgivenss Sunday in the Orthodox Church. What’s it all about? Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann explains. In the Orthodox Church, the last Sunday before Great Lent – the day on which, at
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