Category Archives: Churchy type

Memory Eternal

September 11, 2008 – 9:42 pm

St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox church, aka The Third Tower, just minutes before the tower collapsed on it. This is a fantastic (if huge pdf) tribute to the church.
UPDATE: Story and rebuilding updates here. Thanks to Amy for the correction!

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Happy Name Day!

September 9, 2008 – 8:20 am

According to tradition, Anna, the ancestor of God, lived for sixty-nine years, and her spouse Joachim, for eighty; according to one account, Saint Joachim died two years before Saint Anna. The Theotokos had been orphaned of both her parents already when she was eleven years of age, when she was living in the Temple (see […]

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Happy New Year

September 1, 2008 – 9:39 pm

September 1 is the first day of the ecclesiastical new year. From the GOARCH website:
Since the completion of each year takes place, as it were, with the harvest and gathering of the crops into storehouses, and we begin anew from henceforth the sowing of seed in the earth for the production of future crops, September […]

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One Priest to Heal them All

August 27, 2008 – 6:22 am

Rabbis, priests and ministers will take the stage both in Denver, where the Democrats convene this week, and in Minneapolis-St. Paul, where the Republicans will gather the week after.As might be expected, the clergy members chosen to speak tend to be close to the party that’s hosting the convention. Most clergy go to one convention […]

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Not getting it

August 13, 2008 – 6:29 am

Can we just make a rule that says that someone who doesn’t have the faintest clue about what they’re reporting just not be allowed?
The church has not had a break-in since the 1980s, when a Eucharist was stolen. That item was eventually recovered after an anonymous caller directed the previous head of the church to […]

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