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Thank you, Jonathan!

I like to read http://easterncarolinaorthodox.wordpress.com and http://triangleorthodox.wordpress.com.  These are two great blogs about missionary work in North Carolina.

May his memory be eternal! 

I saw previously in another thread that someone had asked about CD's of Markis's chanting.  I just noticed that CD's of his chanting have become available again through HTM...

I have memorized the Creed by hearing it chanted over and over again, so maybe finding a recording of the Creed being chanted will help.

Thank you very much, Fr Anastasios!  And thank you, everyone, for the congrats! :)

Christ did allow for divorce, as is noted in Matthew 19:9 and Matthew 5:32: So, if there is a case of adultery, then divorce is allowed in the Orthodox Church, as per Christ's words.  The other situation that Orthodoxy allows for divorce is if one of the spouses was already married to someone...

It was Archbishop Iakovos who was in the march.  Here is a picture from the actual event: http://orthodoxwiki.org/Image:Iakovos_and_King.jpg

Here is English and Greek, at least (not on the same sheet though, but they are both in the same tone): English: http://www.stanthonysmonastery.org/music/download.php?file=Chrys/Finale%202003%20-%20[0310_Trisagion%20-%20Mode%208.pdf Greek...

Here are two great Julian calendars, in English, and for fair prices: http://www.sjokp.org search for 2010 Wall Calendar for Orthodox Christians http://www.easternchristiansupply.biz/-#books/c20/42071

I recently noticed a difference in translation of the Axios Estin prayer, "It is truly meet to call thee blest, the Theotokos...."  The Greeks translate it as just written, while the Russians translate it as, "It is truly meet to bless thee, ...." Does anyone know the reason behind the differences?

Just FYI, there are a few other places where this has been discussed that you may want to look through to see if any of your questions are answered there: http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php/topic,25043.0.html (Fr Anastasios posted a great link on this thread that is worth...

That is only so much more true today now that other religions have lost most or all sense of traditional practices, for example, the loss of any fasting in most religions, popular music being played in most heterodox parishes, many people no longer believing that God would ever send anyone to...

Traditionally, the rule in the Greek Church is to always fast one day before Communion, unless one has abstained from Communion for a long time, then it is three days.  This practice, however, is not found in the Russian Church. 

Here is part of a paper that I wrote last year that you might find interesting: The cites come from Fr. Gregory Telepneff's book (one I got on interlibrary loan and found to be very interesting): Telepneff, G. (1998). The Egyptian Desert in the Irish Bogs: the Byzantine Character of Early...