Akathistos

The kids are I were at our monthly “Tea Party” with some ladies that I used to teach with, when another mom and I noticed that our sons had disappeared.  Then we heard the music.
They had gone upstairs, turned on the stereo in the little boy’s room and were dancing like madmen.
I think that it [...]

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Sorry for the appearance of my website. For some reason the photos are not posting correctly, which is not a good thing considering I am posting a photo a day.  We are working on this and it should hopefully soon look normal once again.

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Here is just one of the reasons that fasting is so important.

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The Holy Princess Anna Vsevolodna was daughter of the Kievan Great Prince Vsevolod Yaroslavich (1078-1093) whose wife was daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine Monomachos. She did not wish to marry, and as a virgin she took monastic tonsure in 1082 at the Andreiev Yanchinov monastery built for her at Kiev, but later destroyed under [...]

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Sara has inspired me to join her in doing “30 Days of Living”.  Each day I will take a photo and post it on my blog.  Enjoy!

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Child’s Prayer Heavenly Father, bless my parents and all those who love and care for me. Help me in all ways to be respectful and obedient to them according to Your will. Send down upon me Your grace to perform all my duties carefully and faithfully, to avoid unacceptable company and influence and to [...]

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Saint Theodota was the mother of Holy Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian of Mesopotamia. They were all natives of Asia Minor. Her pagan husband died while her children were still quite small, but she raised them in Christian piety. Through her own example, and by reading holy books to them, St Theodota preserved her [...]

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Thanks to Lost In-Elegant Cogitations for the LINK.

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