Psalm 150 1 Praise the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens. 2 Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness. 3 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre, 4 praise him with tambourine and dancing, praise […]
Why do the Orthodox not use instruments in worship? Part 02
I am happy to say that someone from the Western Rite Vicariate of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese made a comment on the part 01 post on instruments in worship. This is a very important post because it mentions that the Western Rite Vicariate is allowed to use the organ as part of their worship service. […]
Why do the Orthodox not use instruments in worship? Part 01
As most of you can tell, the server that hosts this blog was down, or at least unreliable, for several hours, so this is getting posted several hours later than normal. We often get asked why the Eastern Orthodox do not use instruments in worship. While it is true that some of the Greek Orthodox […]
Patriarch of Russia visits Turkey
From a Turkish news service: Turkey’s Premier Erdogan Receives Patriarch Kirill Published: 7/6/2009 ANKARA – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan received Patriarch Kirill of the Moscow Orthodox Church in Ankara on Monday. The meeting lasted for nearly one hour. Head of the Religious Affairs Department Ali Bardakoglu will also meet with Kirill on Monday. […]
Susan Pevensie and salvation
Have you ever had a fictional character so stick in your mind that you keep returning to that character? Obviously the characters in the C.S. Lewis series, The Chronicles of Narnia, are such characters. But, among them stands one character that makes me ache when I think of her. Who is she? Susan Pevensie, Queen […]
Why do we use bread and wine?
If you read the controversy in St. John 6, you know of the revulsion that the Jews felt when Jesus told them that they must eat his flesh and drink his blood. However, I found the following description from the Desert Fathers to be even more graphic on our use of bread and wine. This […]
Of platypuses and doctrine-mixing Christians
In one of his first comments, Fr. Orthoduckâ„¢ spoke about various “ducky” Christians he knew and said: But, I must admit that none of us is quite sure what to do about those who have so absorbed various ducktrines from various groups that they are no longer ducks but have become duck-billed platypuses. But this is a challange […]
Synaxarion of Pascha
Mary Magdalene, and the other women who were present at the burial of our Saviour on Friday evening, returned from Golgotha to the city and prepared fragrant spices and myrrh, so that they might anoint the body of Jesus. On the morrow, because of the law which forbids work on the day of the Sabbath, […]
Synaxarion for Holy Saturday
On Saturday, the high priests and Pharisees gathered together before Pilate and asked him to have Jesus’ tomb sealed until the third day; because, as those enemies of God said, “We suspect that His disciples will come and steal His buried body by night, and then proclaim to the people that His resurrection is true, […]
Synaxarion for Holy Friday
When Friday dawned, Christ was sent bound from Caiaphas to Pontius Pilate, who was then Governor of Judea. Pilate interrogated Him in many ways, and once and again acknowledged that He was innocent, but to please the Jews, he later passed the sentence of death against Him. After scourging the Lord of all as though […]
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