WARNING

NOT EVERYTHING THAT

CALLS ITSELF ORTHODOX IS

TRULY ORTHODOX


The above warning was given to me when I first met Orthodoxy in 1986. Today [2009] it is even more perilous, even more difficult to find the Royal Path. For one thing there is a far greater abundance of misinformation. And many materials are missing, and other materials are being rapidly rewritten. For another thing there are fewer than ever guides remaining on the Royal Path, especially who speak English. Hopefully this website will be a place where Newcomers to the Faith can keep at least one foot on solid ground, while they are "exploring."


blog owner: Joanna Higginbotham

joannahigginbotham@runbox.com

jurisdiction: ROCA under Vladyka Agafangel

who did not submit to the RocorMP union in 2007

DISCLAIMER



Pilgrim's Guide to Services

In 2024 Fr. Gregory offered this series of classes to help us appreciate our Church Services

new upload to Joanna's Shared Library
https://app.box.com/s/ed2flgx2c8beswrc4kf0ve549o2e5ppm

Table of Contents
Pilgrim_s Guide Session I outline.rtf
Pilgrim_s Guide Session II outline.rtf
Pilgrim_s Guide Session III outline.rtf
Pilgrim_s Guide Session IV outline.rtf
Pilgrim_s Guide Session V outline.rtf
Pilgrim_s Guide Session VI and VII.rtf
Pilgrim_s Guide Session VIII.rtf
Session 1 - June 30 (July 13).mp3
Session 2 - July 7 (July 20).mp3
Session 3 - July 14 (July 27).mp3
Session 4 - July 28 (August 10).mp3
Session 5 - August 4 (August 17).mp3
Session 6 - September 25 (September 7).mp3
Session 7 - February 16 (March 1) 2015.mp3
Session 8 - March 16 (March 29).mp3
Session 9 - July 6 (July 19) 2015.mp3


SUNDAY OF THE HOLY FATHERS OF THE FIRST ECUMENICAL COUNCIL

Unless I were doing services at home alone, I would not have noticed this note on p. 254 of the SJKP Pentecostarion:

Katavasia: imoi of Canon II of Pentecost in Tone IV:
He who was slow of speech, having been covered with the divine darkness, gave utterance unto the divinely written law; for having shaken off the mire from his noetic eyes, He beheld He Who Is, and learned the understanding fo the Spirit, uttering praise with hymns divine.

 The beauty I want you to see is how the services overlap.  Even before we have taken leave of the feast of Ascension, here we are already called to the next feast of Pentecost.   Such wholeness! such beauty! such perfection is woven into our Church services.   
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