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I didn't know where else to ask. In the Salve Regina, the text reads: "Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae." Why is it then that I have come across recordings that leave out "Mater"? With: Salve Regina - YouTube Without: Chant of the Templars - Salve Regina (final part) - YouTube Thanks! :)

I know one other member on this forum goes there often but I'm wondering if anyone knows the text of the Salve Regina that they use? I haven't been able to find their translation anywhere and I haven't done the best job at piecing it together from memory. Can anyone here provide me with the...

I just came across a couple of videos about the Elder Dobri of Bulgaria. He is a poor old man of 95 who walks for miles from his village to Sofia to beg for money in order to help build and restore churches and monasteries. Does any one here know anything about him specifically? YouTube - The...

Today on the Old Calendar (July 29) is the feast day of a very fascinating Saint; St. Bogolep, child Schemamonk of Black Ravine. He was only seven years old when he received the Schema! Amazing! Here is his life from the OCA website: The Child Schemamonk Bogolep was the son of a Moscow...

I often hear Protestants talking about how we need to accept Christ as our "personal savior" and that we need to have a "personal relationship" with Him. Now, when I hear these being said I almost cringe. They don't sound right. They seem to be drawn from a purely individualistic nature that is...

For nearly a century, various governments in the Holy Land gave free water to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and pilgrims as a sign of courtesy. Now the Jerusalem Municipality also wants it to pay for past consumption of water. Confusion and concern among the Christian Churches: we agreement...

I need to limit my internet time for a while and focus on my spiritual life right now. Hitting rough patches so I need to focus myself on God so I'm going to step away from forums for a bit. Pray for me. Christ is Risen!

Glory to God! I have just read that St. Justin Popovic and Fr. Simeon Popovic have been officially canonized a Saints by the Serbian Orthodox Church. Serbian Church glorifies Father Justin Popovic, Father Simeon of Dajbabe The Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church has...

I had an interesting dream last night which I have been thinking about quite a bit throughout the day. I wanted to share this with people here. The dream: It was night and it seemed that I was driving home from the services of Pascha and on my way home I noticed that the dark figure of death...

Well, with Lent coming up, I want to try to spend less of my time on the computer so I am going to go take a break from the forums for a while and probably won't return until after Bright Week. May us all bear fruits of repentance in preparation for Christ's glorious Resurrection. Forgive me...

I just watched the really good Disney movie called Selma, Lord, Selma which is about the civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama. At the end of the film, they are marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the way to Montgomery and leading the march in the movie next to Martin Luther King Jr...

I liked this article. Moon woman keeps Serbian Orthodox Christmas customs alive Christ is born!

This is a slight rant which I feel I need to get out. As many have probably noticed with some of the posts I make here that I am no fan of ecumenism. I have a lot of confusion coming from it though. I see ecumenism as a betrayal of the Orthodox Faith (especially the ecumenist spirit of the...

I came across this video on MSNBC of a possible miracle in Latvia. Though the reporter is wrong about the icon showing the Theotokos holding Christ since it seems that the icon is of the Joy of All Who Sorrow. msnbc.com Video Player Glory to God!

This is a few days late but I thought I should post something about him. On September 29 (October 12 N.S.) was the 40 year anniversary of the repose of Archimandrite Gerasim Schmaltz of Spruce Island, Alaska. He was a holy man who lived in the steps of St. Herman of Alaska. St...

For my world history class in college I have to write an analytical essay about a certain pattern of historical events and I'm planning on writing about the patterns of Christian persecution from the Roman Empire into Islam. I'm mainly looking for some sources that describe conditions for...

Egypt (AINA) -- Osama Araban, a Muslim man riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, went on a rampage last week in Egypt, killing 63-year old Coptic Christian Abdo George Younan, in the village of Bagour, before traveling onwards and stabbing with intention to kill two other Copts in two different...

Please remember those who lost their lives on this day eight years ago. May their memories be eternal. Lord have mercy!

Metropolitan ILYAS (Kurban) Archbishop of Tripoli and al-Koura (i.e. "the countryside"), former proistamenos at St. George Church in Boston and the senior-most member of the Holy Synod of Antioch (having served as a Metropolitan from 1962 until the present), fell asleep in Christ on Thursday...

Here is a nice little video I came across today about Coptic monasticism and it interviews Fr. Lazarus El Anthony who is a hermit who lives up on Mount Colzim in a cave near St. Anthony's Monastery in the deserts of Egypt. A few months ago I posted the episode of the Extreme Pilgrim BBC show...