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Ha ha!
Part of me wants to believe you are being serious.

I could see some Old Calendarist be so anti-canonical Orthodoxy that they would even celebrate the Paschal cycle 13 days later.
 
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I attended the Pentecost kneeling vespers for the 1st time. If I recall, we kneeled twice for extensive penitential prayer.

our service has three, and that last one is huge.
 
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Well, insofar as "blessed" means "injure", "hurt", I guess I'm pretty blessed.

But a blessed one in the cheerier sense to you all!

haha, that’s what I told my newly illumined, catechumens, and inquirers.
 
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haha, that’s what I told my newly illumined, catechumens, and inquirers.
Well, insofar as "blessed" means "injure", "hurt", I guess I'm pretty blessed.

But a blessed one in the cheerier sense to you all!

Makes me think of this (for joyous feast)…

James 1:2-4
2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
 
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Makes me think of this (for joyous feast)…

James 1:2-4
2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

amen
 
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