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Friday, November 30, 2007 at 7:59pm

Guds Moder och Jungfru,
gläd dig, Maria, du högt benådade,
Herren är med dig.
Välsignad är du bland kvinnor,
och välsignad är din livsfrukt,
ty du har fött våra själars Frälsare.


annan Maria-bön:

Heliga Maria, Guds Moder:
bed för oss syndare,
nu och i vår dödsstund. Amin.

st sabbas the sanctified

Wednesday, December 5, 2007 at 4:16pm

While jewish relatives are presumably celebrating c'hanukkah, we have reasons to celebrate in same period ...

http://orthodoxwiki.org/Sabbas_the_Sanctified

tomorrow:
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Nicholas_of_Myra

then:
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Ambrose_of_Milan

8, 9:
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Conception_of_the_Theotokos

"The Orthodox Church does not accept the teaching of the Immaculate Conception, but has also always believed that the Virgin Mary was, from her conception, filled with every Grace of the Holy Spirit in view of her calling as the Mother of Christ our God."

I certainly believe she was filled with every Grace of the Holy Spirit from the moment of her conception. If that is not accepting the teaching of the Immaculate Conception, what is accepting it?

http://orthodoxwiki.org/December_10
http://orthodoxwiki.org/December_11

http://orthodoxwiki.org/Spyridon_of_Trimythous

The blessed virgin and two participants of the Council of Nicea ...

Depuis plus que quatre milles ans ...

Sunday, December 9, 2007 at 5:46pm

Refrain:
1.Il est né le divin enfant
Jouez haut-bois, résonez musettes.
Il est né le divin enfant,
Chantons tous son avènement.

Ce n'est pas encore Noël, mais voice une strophe qui va, vraiment:

Depuis plus de quatre mille ans,
Nous le promettaient les Prophètes,
Depuis plus de quatre mille ans,
Nous attendions cet heureux temps.
Refrain:

Il est né le divin enfant

Partie de cette attente, proche de l'événement était le miracle qui tacitement est sous-entendu dans ce recit:

Douay-Rheims Bible Online: Search for "lamps", OT, first hit in Macchabees

et à cause duquel les Juifs célèbrent C'hanukkah, fête qui tombe toujours en saison d'Avent, tant que je sache.

C'hag sameac'h à la parentèle et aux amis de ce peuple!

St Spyridon of Trimythous

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 at 12:57pm

http://orthodoxwiki.org/Spyridon_of_Trimythous
http://www.roca.org/OA/95/95h.htm
http://www.saintspiridon.org/
http://www.terrakerkyra.gr/history/en/pisti/

Icon
http://www.comeandseeicons.com/s/inp123.htm

Chaque fois que je fais quelque référence à un Saint, on m'offre de "tag anyone you may have mentioned" puis il y a une boîte pour ... (amie FB avec St dans le nom)!

C'est la semaine après St Sabbas the Sanctified donc coincide avec la fin de C'hanukkah cette année.

Hermann and Lucy

Thursday, December 13, 2007 at 7:50pm

While the Orthodox Church in America principally celebrates the repose of St Hermann of Alaska, Wonderworker of ,All America Swedes rather think about St Lucy of Syracuse. In fact, most of them know little about herself, beyond her name, and the fact that it comes from the Latin word for light.

Twelve Apostles

Friday, December 14, 2007 at 1:10pm

1 St Peter
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Apostle_Peter
2 St Andrew
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Apostle_Andrew
3 St James of Zebedee
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Apostle_James_%28son_of_Zebedee%29
4 St John
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Apostle_John
5 St Philip
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Apostle_Philip_%28of_the_Twelve%29
6 St Bartholomew
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Apostle_Bartholomew
7 St Matthew
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Apostle_Matthew
8 St Thomas
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Apostle_Thomas
9 St James of Alphaeus
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Apostle_James_%28son_of_Alphaeus%29
10 St Jude Thaddeus
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Apostle_Jude
11 St Simon the Zealot
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Apostle_Simon

12 a Judas Iscariot, traitor to his master and to his office
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Judas_Iscariot

12 b St Matthias, who took the office of Judas
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Apostle_Matthias

Noël

Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 4:14pm

Le Dieu qui tient la terre et tourne tout le ciel
Est devenu enfant: il mange beurre et miel
Pour ça, mes chers amis: un très joyeux Noël!

OEcumenical Synods did not innovate (quote)

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 3:46pm

"The great heresies condemned by the Holy Œcumenical Synods were Arianism, Macedonianism, Nestorianism, Monophysitism, Monothelitism, and Iconoclasm. Condemned also were other heresies, oftentimes offshoots or variations of the aforementioned major heresies, although sometimes wholly unrelated heresies. All of the Holy Œcumenical Synods were held in the Christian East, the center of the Roman Empire in those centuries, in the cities of Nicæa, Constantinople, Ephesus, and Chalcedon. Each was presided over by a Roman Monarch or by his appointed representatives. (The Emperors and other laymen in attendance, it should be said, could participate in the discussions, but could not vote, since that privilege belonged exclusively to the Hierarchs.)

"There is often a misunderstanding of the Œcumenical Synods on the part of sectarians, who seem to believe that the various aspects of the Faith set forth by the Œcumenical Synods were in some way innovative at the time, that is, new beliefs or new syntheses of beliefs. These sectarians appear to think that prior to the First Synod of Nicæa, for instance, the Church did not fully apprehend the Divinity of Christ Jesus. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In fact, the declarations of the Œcumenical Synods expressed the ancient Faith in its fullness, “that faith which has been believed everywhere, always, by all,” [18] in the words of Saint Vincent of Lérins. That Faith may have been more precisely articulated by the Œcumenical Synods than was the case there tofore, which acted to clear away any confusion arising from ignorance or misunderstanding. However, the exact Faith set down by them had nonetheless been believed and taught by Christians from the beginning, from the time of Pentecost. The Holy Fathers of the Great Synods “did not seek to find the truth, making conjectures by reasoning and imagination, but in order to confront the heretics they attempted to formulate in words the already existing revealed Truth....” [19]"

Source

Five reasons why I am no Lubavicher

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 10:45am

Reasons one, two and three:

Δόξα Πατρὶ καὶ Υἱῷ καὶ Ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι,
καὶ νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.

Reason four:

Θεοτόκε Παρθένε, χαῖρε, κεχαριτωμένη Μαρία, ὁ Κύριος μετὰ σοῦ. εὐλογημένη σὺ ἐν γυναιξί, καὶ εὐλογημένος ὁ καρπὸς τῆς κοιλίας σου, ὅτι Σωτήρα ἔτεκες τῶν ψυχῶν ἡμῶν.

Reason five:

"Freude, schöner Götterfunken,
Tochter aus Elisium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische, dein Heiligtum.
Deine Zauber binden wieder,
Was die Mode streng geteilt,
Alle Menschen werden Brüder,
Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt."

In other words: Acts, ch 2, Colossians 3:11

From Supplementum to De Viribus Illustribus
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 6:03pm

by Gennadius of Marseille

Chapter 71
Leo, bishop of Rome, wrote a letter to Flavianus, bishop of the church at Constantinople, against Eutyches the presbyter, who at that time, on account of his ambition for the episcopate was trying to introduce novelties into the church. In this he advises Flavianus, if Eutyches confesses his error and promises amendment, to receive him, but if he should persist in the course he had entered on, that he should be condemned together with his heresy. He likewise teaches in this epistle and confirms by divine testimony that as the Lord Jesus Christ is to be considered the true son of the Divine Father, so likewise he is to be considered true man with human nature, that is, that he derived a body of flesh from the flesh of the virgin and not as Eutyches asserted, that he showed a body from heaven. He died in the reign of Leo and Majorianus.

He baptised my granny:
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 6:26pm

my unseen stepgrandmother as well as my stepgrandfather: Heinrich and Agnes Brautmann were baptised together by Msgr. Ghika

Memory eternal!

I thought he was Latin, I did not know he was born in an Orthodox family. My deepest regret about SSPX is that it is anti-orthodox, that it considers Orthodoxy as schism. My deepest regret about Old Calendarists is that it considers papism as heresy.