Hagha Sophia
Posted on 01/06/2009 4:15:26 PM PST by kronos77
Hristos se rodi!
That’s a wonderful Christmas carol!!!!
We on the New Calendar have already been celebrating Theophany, and you all on the Old Calendar will join us on the 19th.
I light a candle and pray for Serbian Christians in Kosovo when I enter the temple before every Divine Liturgy—even in my OCA parish. I hope that we shall always be able to worship the Triune God in peace and freedom here in America, and that our brothers and sisters in Kosovo and in Constantinople will join us in doing so very soon.
Feast of the Nativity Orthodox Ping!
Merry Christmas! God bless you and God bless Serbia.
Happy Christmas my Brother! :)
Christ is born! Glorify Him!
Re: the Hagia Sophia...It looks so lovely without the minarets. Thank you.
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Of course it does. Perhaps one day soon....
A Blessed Christmas to you!
The Maronites celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25 as do, to the best of my knowledge, all of the other Eastern Catholic Churches. Does yours celebrate it on Epiphany?
Certain Orthodox hierarchies haven’t yet adopted that new-fangled Gregorian calendar yet. ;) The Julian calendar is 12-13 days off the Gregorian. So by the Julian calendar it’s December 25. You know what they (we!) say about us Orthodox: anything that happens in less than 400 years is done in unseemly haste and hasn’t been thought through carefully enough. :))
Thank you!
It is on Greek actualy, several eastern christian languages are used in church.
The words mean “Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us!” (as of course K77 knows!)
Sas efharisto poli. I try to learn a couple of words in every language. My next attempt is learning a few words in Arabic./Just Asking - seoul62......
Sas efharisto poli, many thanks./Just Asking - seoul62......
“My next attempt is learning a few words in Arabic./Just Asking - seoul62......”
Quddusun Allah! Quddusun al-qawi! Quddusun al-adhi, la yamutu rhamna.
Shukran gazilan, as-salamu-alaykum./Just Asking - seoul62......
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