Ping!
Always enjoy the uplifting postings.
By the way did you hear about the "miracle" on Epiphany Day on thr Jordan river? Any truth?
INTERFAX
2006-01-24 14:13:00
The Biblical miracle recurs on the Jordan during Theophania (Epiphany Day.)
Moscow, January 24, Interfax - Some five thousand pilgrims from various countries became witnesses to a sign that appeared on the holy River of Jordan on Theophania.
Immediately after Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem performed the rite of the blessing of water, the Jordan boiled up and began to flow back, just as it happened after the baptism of Christ, the Zhizn (Life) daily writes.
Right after silver crosses were thrown into its calm waters after the prayer, the river boiled up. A maelstrom developed and the current flowed back for a several minutes.
An ecstatic cry of five thousand people resounded over the Jewish desert. People refused to believe their own eyes, just as they did two thousand years when the Jordan turned its current after Jesus Christ entered its waters, the newspaper writes.
That is a very striking icon, Kolo, and the story of St. Ephraim the Syrian is an extraordinary one. Thanks for posting!