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ORD ON THE Street is that Mtr Jonah of the OCA told the new Anglicans that he would break off Ecumenical Discussions with ECUSA and take ‘em up with them.
I can’t find the transcript on the OCA site and can’t bring myself to listen. So maybe. (Although in the past not finding the [...]

The following is from the introduction to New Skete’s Book of Prayers, their communities’ Horologion:
HE RESULT Of all this study and experience, therefore, is a schema of the canonical hours which is both a reform and a restoration and, precisely because it is such, it is also a renewal. It is a restoration because [...]

EADING THE Liturgy Books from New Skete. The Brothers were formerly Byzantine Catholics and so they have brought with them some of the devotional practices from the past. One the Julian Paschalion, as used by Byzantine Catholics, this Thursday (the second Thursday after Pentecost) would be the Feast of Corpus Christi. I [...]

HE ROMAN Catholic Ecclesial Community in San Francisco has paid out some $40 Million in clergy-related Sex Abuse cases. In an effort to protect some assets, they transfered some very famous property – including Mission Delores, the old cathedral (St Mary’s) and the historic but totally abandoned St Francis church in SoMa – [...]

New Skete books on the way!!

SEEM to remember somewhere (back in my convert days) reading an essay on why the lights in Orthodox Churches should be Oil Lamps if possible, beeswax where candles were needed. Paraffin could be used where needed, but it wasn’t as clean as beeswax, electricity was right out: the lights represent a sacrifice. [...]

ERSION ONE of the Story says Metropolitan PHILIP, plays the “Trump” of the Archdiocese: “You are fired” to the Chancellors of the Archdiocese!:
Close sources to theantiochian.com informed us that the meeting of the board of trustees of the Archdiocese is finished with the unanimous and full support for the Metropolitan of this Archdiocese [...]

OT TO LOVE The way they love each other. Antiochia Bishops to Damascus without Mtr Philip:
According to these sources, the members of the Synod of Antioch were shocked to discover they had been misled by Metropolitan Philip, and that there was no “dissension and disunity” in North America – nor a widespread desire of [...]

Christ is Risen!

REIND Of this Blog and my own friend, Donald Schell, has posted a piece over at the Episcopal Cafe on the icon of the Dancing Saints at St Gregory of Nyssa Church. Donald’s article documents the process in which the community engaged on the way, debating and finally selecting the images painted [...]

Christ is Risen!

EPENDING ON Which Easter-calendar you’re on (I’m on the Gregorian one…) today is the leave-taking of Pascha, the last day of singing the hymns of Easter. If you’re a Byzantine-Rite user, today (or Next Wednesday if you’re into the Julian Easter) is liturgical supposed to be Just Like Pascha. It’s the [...]