Glory to God for All Things (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
There are several religious or theological mistakes to make about Christ’s resurrection. They are seemingly innocent, and even seem to be acts of belief. Their problem lies in the fact that they do not rightly understand the resurrection nor the true scope of its significance. I am just a sinner and not worthy to offer [...]
Mavi Boncuk (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
Mavi Boncuk |Pasha Pasha (or pascha, bashaw; Turkish: paşa) originally from Persian padshah or padeshah meaning "king") was a high rank in the Ottoman Empire political system, typically granted to governors and generals. As an honorary title, "Pasha" is roughly equivalent to "Sir". The sultan of Turkey and (by delegation) the khedive of Egypt had the right to bestow the title of Pasha. The title appears,...
Vultus Christi (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
I preached this homily several years ago. Allow me to share it with you again. A lovely icon for Marymas or Lady-Day-in-Harvest Luke 1:39-56 1 Corinthians 15:20-26 Psalm 44:10-12.16 Apocalypse 11:19; 12:1-6.10 The Pascha of Summer Today's festival, the...
Ed Levine Eats (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
Harry Hawk will be doing this in Midtown West this weekend. Photograph Courtesy of Off the Broiler Motz burgers will be sold outside the nightclub Pascha this weekend [NYM] Restaurants on Smith Street in Cobble Hill want refunds from...
Pseudo-Polymath (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
This year, Eastern and Western liturgical calendars were about as far apart as they can be, the Western Easter was in March and won’t be that early calendrically for over a hundred years, while the Eastern Pascha was in May. Next week … the East celebrates the ending of its Paschal season (and to be [...]
Reason & Revelation (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
In the seventh Sunday of Pascha, we commemorate the holy God-bearing Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council. The Commemoration of the First Ecumenical Council has been celebrated by the Church of Christ from ancient times. The Lord Jesus Christ left the Church a great promise, "I will build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Mt. 16:18). Although the Church of Christ on...
Media Hunter (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Twelve months ago this weekend my Newcastle, NSW was battered by what became known as the Pascha Bulker storm. A wild weekend of cyclonic winds and driving rain resulted in widespread flooding , blackouts, several deaths and a calculated $2 billion in damages and loss of income. The lasting image though was of the cargo ship Pascha Bulker washing up on the city's doorstep. Some friends and...
Glory to God for All Things (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
The second Sunday after our Lord's Pascha is always remembered as the “Sunday of the Myrrhbearers,” when the Church remembers the women and men who cared for our Lord's body after His death on the Cross. Joseph and Nicodemus are the two men remembered. Mary and Martha of Bethany, Mary Magdalene, Mary the wife of [...]
Glory to God for All Things (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
Serge Schmemann, son of Fr. Alexander Schmemann, in his wonderful little book, Echoes of a Native Land, records a letter written from one of his family members of an earlier generation, who spent several years in the prisons of the Soviets and died there. The letter, written on the night of Pascha in 1928 is [...]
Cheese Shop recent updates (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
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A Blogspate (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
..there was no rigor mortis because they had buried him alive? On the feast day of Pascha... …a brother had departed to the Lord while the fathers were chanting, “This is the day of Resurrection.” This many-times-blessed one was standing by his upright bench holding a lit candle for Pascha, and his joyful soul, filled with resurrectional bliss, rose to heaven. When the fathers
Tips-Trends.com blog (Free subscription) | 30/04/2008
For most of the year, it can be a feat following the travels of Valery Gergiev, the famously energetic Russian conductor who is director of the Mariinsky Theater is St. Petersburg, but also holds posts in London, Rotterdam and New York. courtesy of vesti.ru Still, come Easter (called Pascha, in the Orthodox Church) Gergiev is inevitably here [...]
Pseudo-Polymath (Free subscription) | 29/04/2008
Here’s where I’ll be tonight. For fairly obvious reasons, I couldn't go to my regularly scheduled Saturday night date last weekend … the whole Pascha thing and all. For those not following the link, it's the Symphony … Wagner, Chin (whom I’ve never heard) and …. (drumbeat) … Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique.
Reason & Revelation (Free subscription) | 28/04/2008
Pascha (Easter) Enjoy ye all the feast of faith; receive ye all the riches of loving-kindness. (Sermon of St John Chrysostom, read at Paschal Matins) The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the center of the Christian faith. St Paul says that if Christ is not raised from the dead, then our preaching and faith are in vain (I Cor. 15:14). Indeed, without the resurrection there would be no...
Moscow Times (Free subscription) | 28/04/2008
Together with the rest of the Eastern Christian world, the Russian Orthodox Church celebrated Easter on Sunday. In English, Orthodox Christians refer to Easter as ""Pascha,"" a word related to the English adjective ""paschal"" and to the French Paque or Italian Pasqua.
