Recent content by _Seraphim_

www.OrthodoxMysteries.com Orthodox chants and icons from nearly 100 different cultures! There has now been almost 50,000 visitors to the OrthodoxMysteries website… visiting from over 106 countries around the globe: United States, Sweden, Canada, Romania, Russian Federation, Poland, Germany...

Can anyone recommend some Christmas albums/CDs/groups?  Any really good renditions of American favorites (both religious and secular) are welcome. Thanks, and Merry CHRISTmas!

My parish priest and his wife are Jewish...  (Orthodox... Jewish..............priest?  That joke never gets old! ;D)  Our parish is under the Serbian jurisdiction, a third of our parishioners are Russian, and the rest is composed of all-American converts from a wide spectrum of former...

Thanks to the generosity of a forum member here... the Norwegian section of the OrthodoxMysteries website now has an actual song/chant (instead of simply the Paschal greeting)! Norwegian Orthodox chant and icon (the chant is from this website) ...and while you're there you might as well...

Please forgive my late response... thank you so very, very much.  Text cannot convey my gratitude. In Christ, -Seraphim

Can anyone help provide an English phonetic version of the Gospel reading for Agape Vespers (John 20:19-25)... in any of the OO languages (Armenian, Syrian, Ethiopian, Coptic, etc.)? I would love for our EO parish to have an OO language represented at the Agape Vespers!  :)  Thanks in advance...

Well, it took me about 2-3 years of searching to finally find pre-schism Western European Orthodox chant.  Of course, Latin wasn't that hard to find, but French, English, Irish, Scottish, etc. were almost impossible to locate.  By the grace of God, I ended up contacting a French Orthodox...

You can see and hear an Irish Orthodox icon and chant from the 8th century at this website: http://www.orthodoxmysteries.com/chant-irish.html +St Patrick, pray to God for us!

Sorry, IRISH Gaelic is what I'm looking for. :)

Can anyone provide a Gaelic translation of the Gospel reading (John 20:19-25) for Agape vespers? It would be preferable to have an English phonetic version (for proper pronunciation). If anyone could help with this it would be very, very appreciated. Thanks in advance, -Seraphim

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"The Chile earthquake 2010 has already been felt far and wide. With the massive 8.8 quake that struck this morning in Chile..." http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2743207/chile_earthquake_2010_triggers_hawaii.html...

One of our deacons has been using homeopathic medicine for decades... so have my wife and I... and several other members of the parish. Also, many of the parishioners (including the priest) all go to the same naturopathic physician.

Today, on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, I served as an acolyte, and as we all went on procession with our icons... in one hand I was holding a banner icon from behind our altar of Mary and Christ, and in the other hand I held this Word-Wide-Orthodox icon of Mary and Christ: You can...

Indeed: The American Orthodox Church, A History of Its Beginnings by George C. Michalopulos and Herb Ham