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Two priests I know have been wanting to start a student fellowship for years. This year we finally did something about it! It's cross jurisdictional, which is still a new thing here in Australia, with one priest being Greek Archdiocese and one ROCOR, and we have it across institutions because...

Hi all :) Years ago when I was first a catechumen I would tell my family the stories of the Saints that I was learning, especially the interesting or funny ones. My sister likes Fool For Christ stories especially. One of these was St Fanourios/Phanourios, and I said about how he finds things...

Painted by our own ikonographics :D This is St Kyriaki, after the icon of her that inspired me to become Orthodox ten years ago :) and here's me holding her: She's beautiful! Thankyou Julia :) I'm taking her to Church tonight.

Hi everyone, I would really appreciate your prayers. Those of you who've known me for a while know that I am really seriously ill with a chronic illness or five that don't really have any treatment that is guaranteed to work, and even those that 'work' don't cure it they just make it more...

My sister and I finally won our battle to get my Mum to get a kitten of her own (she keeps stealing mine, although kitten is relative since she's now 4) and brought home little Max Schroedinger tonight. Dad's a quantum physicist so it was Schroedinger or something even more obscure :P Mostly...

I wrote this for my blog, but it took me a while and it's more general than most blog posts so I thought I might post it here as well. I'd love comments or criticism! The last few weeks have been a struggle for me, although not in the way that is normal for Lent. I’ve been quite sick with my...

I don't really want to go into the issues, but let's just say that ever since early August my life has been turned upside down with issues in almost every area of my life, and stress makes my illnesses worse which complicates things further. I was also reassessed as having severe (9/10 on the...

This is by one of my favourite designers :) I CANNOT justify it right now since I'm saving my pennies for the class kits and tuition for this conference which is being held next year in Bright Week: Country Bumpkin Online - Articles - BATB 2012 - Beating Around the Bush 2012 Maybe after I've...

Seeing as it's his feast day today, and he's one of Andrew's favourite Saints, I went hunting for an Akathist to him. I found one, on TAW, posted a loooong time ago (link here: http://www.christianforums.com/t3334940/) I know it's a common thing with Akathists for them to be in King James-y...

Does anyone know who this quote is attributed to? Wiki and google in general all say exactly the same thing "The Church Fathers often said that...(insert quote). No cite. Someone (not Orthodox) asked me who said it and whether it was Scripture. I know enough to know that it isn't that (and...

Hi all, please pray - this is nowhere near me, thankfully, but it's all over the news. It's absolutely enormous, and the same strength as Hurricane Katrina. I've been to a lot of the places affected, they're beautiful, and this is Queensland - the State (like a Canadian Province, size-wise) is...

Would you please pray for the soul of the departed Michael? Andrew's grandfather passed away this morning in Cyprus at the age of 92, peacefully. Andrew's family is in Australia on the other side of the world, and with the journey to Cyprus taking 2 days it's unlikely that any of them will be...

Finally Australia has formed an interjurisdictional council and is looking to do some very positive things. I'm trying to find news articles but as usual the Aussie archdioceses aren't very good about posting things so you get this, which has the text from the Communique sent to all parishes and...

Could you please pray for the servant of God, Andrew - he's having a really rough time between work and illness, and it's making him miserable. Among other things, he's had a virus for more than two weeks now but he can't take time off work so he has to keep working anyway. He needs a lot of...

Would you please offer a prayer for the soul of Maureen, departed this life yesterday, and her husband Walter who passed away three months to the day before, and their family who are grieving. They are my Dad's Aunt and Uncle, and much loved.

I'm going back to college soon, and it's 45 minutes from where I live, so I need to either buy food or take my lunch. Buying food is inexpensive and easy...if I'm not fasting. Lent starts in a week. So, I need some ideas for what to take. I'm on the 'only just allowed to do this' list, so I...

My Dad has been semi-retired for a couple years now, and I swear he's somewhat like a bored 6 year old boy - he hasn't got enough to do, so he picks fights. He's been away with my mum for a few weeks now, staying at my grandmother's house, and both my sister and i have been over there for a week...

Please forgive my bragging...just a little :) This piece is rather huge, stitched on fabric with 40 threads to the inch, which makes 20 stitches to the inch in any given direction, and it's taken me two years to stitch, off and on. I finished it on Friday :) It's Psalms 22 (23) which everyone...

Please, could those of you who read this say a prayer for me? Some stuff from the past that I thought was over and done decided to turn up in memories and emotional stuff today and now I've got to process it and try to figure out what to do with it. And its 3:14am. And I feel sick. I am going...

Hi all, would you say a prayer please, for the soul of my great uncle, Wal (I think his full name was Walter), who passed away earlier this evening. And also a prayer for his wife, Maureen, who has been near death from advanced cancer for several weeks. Uncle Wal has been frail for a year, but...