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Christ is Risen! In the Eastern tradition, regular hourly prayers are suspended through bright week (from Pascha until the following Saturday). During that time the following Paschal Hours are read for all the “minor” hours – The midnight office, Prime, Terce, Sext and None and Compline – during the day (Matins, Vespers are also in [...]

ERGE RECENTLY WROTE Some very kind (tough but kind) things about me on his blog last week and then entered into a dialogue about those things in the comment section. Other people have asked me about the things he said: are they true? First, thank you Serge. I’m honoured by your kindness. And by your [...]

Christ is Risen! Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? HE Sixth and final Sunday of Pascha is called the Sunday of the Blind man. In the Eastern Rite, we use the Reading of this story from John. I have to admit that it reads to me as a [...]

Christ is Risen! CTUALLY, Yer Host is very sucky at maintaining a rule of prayer for any period of time (9-12 months is about average). For the last year I was using the Church of England’s Common Worship: Daily Prayer which I love. But it’s rather light… and the lectionary is choppy. Right now I’m [...]

ITH THIS part of the F.A.Q., we leave behind the questions of “how?” and “what?”, focusing more on the “who?” and “Why?” Cartoon by Dave Walker.

E RETURN to the arcane code of the definition list. Yes, I think I shall have to codify this in the future in to categories, etc. But for now, just a DL tag and off we go:

VERY ONCE IN A WHILE I craft a phrase that keeps getting hits. “Eastern Rite Anglican”, mentioned only once on this blog (and rather deep in a post) is one of those phrases. Seems a lot of people like the idea and keep Googling it. OK, so off I go. For this purpose we pull [...]