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Are any of you members of the Dallas St Seraphim OCA Cathedral? I’ll be visiting there shortly. (If you feel like private messaging me instead, feel free!)

All the Statement of Purposes link to the site rules, but it no longer works. Could you add a redirect from this URL to the current site rules? I sometimes direct people to the Statement of Purpose, and it points people to this link - which fails - for overall rules...

The reactions are showing half of one icon and half of the another. It’d the icon(s) next to Friendly and Agree in the screenshot below.

I do like the simplicity of the Rich Text Editor - but - not having lists (such as the example below in the second section of icons), is problematic. Bulleted (unordered) lists and ordered (numbered) lists definitely should be turned on.

I am reading through the Psalms throughout the year and love to hear or sing hymns based on the words of the Psalm. I’d like to propose that we share songs of Psalms based on the Psalms we may be reading each day, or a Psalm that particularly touches you. Today, my reading plan has Psalms 101...

Please pray for my sweet grandma and family. She was recently put into hospice for congestive heart failure and pneumonia. They said she has up to 2 weeks to live. She hasn’t had food or drink except a sponge today and a bit of apple juice yesterday, and very little before that. She is in...

We are planning to put together a devotional area in our woods with some outdoor icon shrines / stands. Have any of you done this (outside icon shrine /stand)? If so, what was your method to protect the icon? I’m looking for something durable, reasonably priced or able to be built with...

Just starting this thread as a place to share beneficial Orthodox Facebook groups / pages. Please note that this should not be a place for groups or pages that are detrimental to our spiritual faith - and should be edifying to our faith.

Feel free to post any scriptures or quotations (from church fathers / mothers, etc).

My 98 year old grandma was just diagnosed with COVID - and we are really concerned for her. She is like a second mom to me. Her nursing home had a severe outbreak. Also, my sister, her husband and 3 kids, and her in-laws all were diagnosed in the past 2 weeks. Some of them are high risk...

Feel free to share some of your favorite liturgical or paraliturgical hymns here. One of my favorites is The Angel Cried. The first time I heard it sung once people returned to church after the pandemic (we only had 10 in the congregation at the time), as well as seeing the Eucharist, started...

(I know some of you celebrated Pentecost last week, so this may be a week late, but we - Orthodox Christians - celebrated it this week.) Joyous Feast! Have a blessed Pentecost as we remember the gift of the Holy Comforter. Blessed art You O Christ Our God / You have revealed the fishermen...

Please note that this is in the Orthodox forum. I am looking for the understanding of teachings of the Orthodox church. I tend to go to the church fathers for commentaries. I recently was reading 1 Timothy 2, and pulled up the commentary from St John Chrysostom. He says that we are...

Sto imparando l'italiano adesso. Se qualcuno conosce l'italiano o lo sta imparando, mi piacerebbe praticare con te! —————— Anyone interested in practicing or writing in Italian here with me?

Right now I’m finishing up a recipe of Sirynaja Paska and have eggs dyed red (finally) with natural onion skin dye, paska bread, fruit, kielbasa for my hubby, cheese for me, deviled eggs and some other things yet to be determined :) For anyone interested in what a pascha basket is, I attached...

Such a meaningful exapostolarion - I love the simple Byzantine melody with this translation: I see Thy bridal chamber all adorned, O my Saviour, but I have no wedding garment so that I may enter in. Make bright the vesture of my soul, O Giver of light, and save me. Lord have mercy on us all...

As we celebrate St Nicholas Day, I’d love to hear from you all regarding what you do to celebrate, both personally and in church. To start off, here is a carol we love to sing in honor of St Nicholas From another Carol: Saint Nicholas lived in a land far away; A warm-hearted bishop, the...

I’m trying to work on a Jesse Tree advent for my nephew. I’m trying to print Icons to go along with each of the ornaments (for him to look at and see with the story). He’s very impressionable right now, so I’d like to help him learn. I am struggling to find a lot of the OT story icons though...

‘It is never so difficult to say from the heart, “Thy Will be done, Father”, as when we are in sore affliction, grievous sickness, and when we are subjected to the injustice of men, or the assaults and wiles of the enemy.’ St John of Kronstadt wrote that - and it applies significantly to some...

What does dispassion truly mean in Orthodoxy? What are the passions (besides listing the 7 main passions)? Are they only things that distract us from following God - that we put in front of Him? Does it mean we can’t have any emotional connections here on Earth? Dispassionate: unaffected by...