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Hello all,
Recently I applied for an internship at an embassy in the Balkans. I was hoping you'd pray that I got it. It would mean a lot to me.
Thank you.
GMO's are sinful:
Do you like potato chips? You'd better reconsider.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/arts_n_ideas/news/article/russian-orthodox-official-warns-eating-potato-chips-is-sinful/540307.html
How I miss the old Loeb editions, in which the naughty bits were in Latin. It certainly added a bit of mystique and a sense of exclusivity. You had to work to get to the honey. With those modern translations everyone can read those parts.
One of the finer examples: Catullus XVI in the old Loeb
...until I get to know whether I've been admitted to the most prestigious law school of the land. Apparently my chances are really good, but nothing is certain. Please do pray for me.
How lonely sits the city
that once was full of people!
How like a widow she has become,
she that was great among the nations!
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32820857
What language do the Ukrainian Orthodox use it the liturgy? Church Slavonic or Ukrainian?
I've heard that the Ukrainian Greek Catholics use Ukrainian in the liturgy.
...that you're a reasonably-well off and educated Athenian, since you've listened to a few philosophers and sophists in your youth. You live in Athens around 50AD, earning your living by selling gaudy replicas of Greek statues to philistine Romans selling cheese on the Areopagus. Suddenly you...