Ignatius Strange

Orthodox priest.

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Successful pilgrimage to Hartshorne, a good trial run to help next year go smoothly. Many graves of our American Orthodox forebears were blessed!

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Late Vespers here in Hartshorne. Will rise, serve Matins just like the parish priest, Hieromonk Tikhon (Rostovsky), in 1904; then liturgy at 10am, just like St. Tikhon himself celebrated 122 years ago on this Thomas Tuesday, the Day of Rejoicing (Radonitsa).

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A great gathering in Paris, at St. Thomas Mission. 12 parishioners showed up to welcome the pilgrimage and to venerate the icon of St. Tikhon. Now: the last leg to Hartshorne. Vespers at 8:00.

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Now, en route to Paris, Texas, to St. Thomas Mission Station!

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The pilgrimage has almost made it to Longview. We should arrive about 2:30, pray some hymns to Saint Tikhon, and then keep moving on down the road toward Hartshorne, Oklahoma. We are staying on schedule, so we look forward to the scheduled 8:00 Vespers there, tonight.

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Riddle, inspired from a conversation with a middle school student today:
Air wrapped around a liquid
Is a raindrop, as you see,
But liquid around air,
I've no idea what that could be.

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My little girl: "In the young years, it was called vitamin C, but now it's called medicine."

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Music for "Christ is risen from the dead" in the Thai language:
https://t.co/KlUm9DwBiA #pascha #Thai

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Finally, "Christ Is Risen from the Dead" in Thai. Here is a Thai Paschal Troparion my wife and I developed. https://t.co/KlUm9DwBiA

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On this Sunday of the Cross, we are challenged to take up our cross, and follow our Lord. In our pain, in our struggle, we certainly do not know what to do, but all we really need to know is how to make a start: https://t.co/QPJ7MC71sp

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Overwhelmed with anxiety about Ukraine? One thing we can do is pray. Here is how Ukraine's Church leader has instructed his flock to pray: https://t.co/AAfJWciNzj

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How do we pray for Ukraine? Let's follow the Ukrainian Church leader's "prayer rule" for his people: https://t.co/AAfJWcjloR

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Homily on the Last Judgment: we think of it as "don'ts", but the Scriptures seem to focus more on the "dos". https://t.co/LYYUslZcH5

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Preparing tomorrow's homeschool science lesson, I hear the @Delta #Olympics commercial say, "Without gravity, you can't have lift." Correction: without gravity, we have no atmosphere, and without the air in that atmosphere to pass over lift-making surfaces, we can't have lift.

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"...crafted in [this great olympian]'s image," says a commentator for the 2022 Olympics, just now. A Christian phrase/idea that remains in our vocabulary.

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Just before John 3:16, Christ links together Baptism and the Cross. This is a parallel for our own lives in Christ: we are born into him, then live in him by taking up our cross. https://t.co/ujmHAUetMK #chrysostom #john316

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In your Bible, John 1 likely says Christ "dwelt among" us. It is an important distinction to say what John actually says: Christ "dwelt in" us. https://t.co/BwgLnczItW

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@jstogdill Wow, that has allusions to a wild array of explanations.

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Ever heard of the poetic method of chiasm or chiasmus? It is all over the Scriptures. Here is a little about its use in the Prologue of the Gospel of John: https://t.co/vHZXW9mTV2

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A little language hack to not know Greek but read St. Paul's epistle to the Romans as he intended it: https://t.co/UK1kSVpnNS