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Patriarchal flag to fly over GOA churches?
Word on the street is that Met. Methodios of Boston (GOA) told his priests yesterday that each parish must start flying the patriarchal flag. The Archons are donating the flag pole.
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Some random Holy Week thoughts
Lent is usually a struggle, Holy Week, while laborious, is the reward. For many priests, the final Anastasi (resurrection service) is not Saturday night, but the Agape Service on Sunday, maybe because you can finally relax. The gift of Holy Week however, is the text — the stichoi or verses that recount with penetrating clarity…
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Christian faith: Calvinism is back
Calvinism has always struck me as, well, psychologically austere given Calvin’s definition of predestination where man, in the end, has no real freedom. Nevertheless, for Protestants raised on the consumer Christianity that has afflicted the Protestant world the last few decades, it’s probably a bracing antidote to the search for good feelings reaches almost pathological…
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Attn: New Yorkers. Book party for Wesley J. Smith
Attention New York readers: Wesley J. Smith, author and occassional commentator on the AOI Blog will be in New York on Thursday, March 4 to sign his new book. From First Things: First Things and Encounter Books Invite You To An Evening With Wesley J. Smith To celebrate the publication of A Rat Is a…
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Relics, icons, and crosses onboard International Space Station
HT: Byzantine TX Moscow, Russia, Jan 20, 2010 / 12:11 am (CNA) – The Gospels, four icons, crosses and a relic of the True Cross have been taken aboard the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS), a Russian cosmonaut has reported. A photo taken by the station crew shows an icon and a…