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Archive for November 28th, 2009
It’s All Very Messy . . .
One thing that is very interesting to me working on our community’s calendar reform project is the messy-ness of the liturgical cycle. There is neither rhyme nor reason to the order of most of the commemorations and feast days. Sometimes – and the feast of St. Catherine of Alexandria is an example – the feast [...]
St. Marutha the Persian
Saint Marutha was Bishop of Tagrith (Martyropolis), a city which he founded between the Byzantine Empire and Persia. He was famed for his knowledge and his piety, he wrote about the martyrs, and he suffered for his faith in Christ under the Persian emperor Sapor. He also left behind other works in the Syrian language, [...]