New Blogs to Check Out

May 22, 2008

I’ve been following a few new blogs that I wanted to let you all know about:

Fr Patrick’s Weblog: I first met Fr Patrick in Idaho, when his beard was significantly shorter, and we met each other for coffee pretty regularly. We had some really wonderful conversations and it was an honor to be able to [...]

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Paschal Service

April 12, 2004

Reading of Paschal Homily | St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary
Andrew,, Jean and I went to the Paschal Service (for more info, go here) at Fr Patrick’s church, St. Ignatius of Antioch Church. The service lasted from 10.30pm - 1.30am.

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Stand up, sit down, prostrate, sign the cross…

March 18, 2004

I spent the evening tonight with many Orthodox Christians, including Fr Patrick and Bishop Joseph (who is the Bishop of the West Coast Chancery of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North American). I attended the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts (which, I was told, was one of the longer Orthodox services - about two [...]

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Have You Hugged an Orthodox Christian Today?

January 25, 2004

Spent an evening at a lecture Fr Patrick gave last week at CSI in Twin Falls. He called the lecture: “Whatever Happened to the New Testament Church?” Throughout the evening, he followed the progression of the church from the years after Christ, through the establishment of Constantinople and the five patriarchates (Church of Rome, Church [...]

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Orthodox Anyone?

December 31, 2003

A few months ago, I decided to call the St. Ignatius of Antioch Church in Twin Falls. I thought, “Hey, they’re Orthodox, they’re into incense and old stuff…maybe they’d be interested in .bE!” I called at 10.30pm, hoping [expecting] to just leave a voicemail. I was rather surprised when someone actually answered the phone. I [...]

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The Icon of Icons…

December 25, 2003

My mother is a nurse and has to work every other Christmas, so we broke with tradition this year and opened all our gifts on Christmas Eve. I got some very useful stuff [electric razor, scarf, Guiness mug, and a White-Elephant gift that has been passed down through the Cleaveland family for years].
But one of [...]

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Random Musings…

October 25, 2003

Blogging: I guess I have just been in a slump this week a bit. I’ve realized that I’ve become “just another blog” - which is bound to happen. Where are the new blogs? Why are all of our blogs identical? [Warning: sweeping generalizations ahead!] Not only do we all use the same templates for our [...]

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