Feasts and Fasts
Customs, traditions, and meditations related to the Great Feasts (and a few of he lesser feasts) of the Orthodox Church. Pascha has its own section. To find a particular feast or fast quickly, check the index, where they’re listed by date.
Upon the Annunciation and Passion
For Orthodox Christians on the New Calendar, today is the feast of the Annunciation. For western Christians, today is Good Friday. It would also be the Annunciation for them, but on the western liturgical calendar, when Good Friday falls on March 25, the celebration...
Christine, who fasted during the fast-free week
Yesterday, I walked home from the train station with tears running down my face. That’s happened before. It’s usually because I was reading a book on the train, and reached the place in the story where my favorite character dies. But that wasn’t it this time. This...
Groundhog’s Day and the Presentation of our Lord
It’s interesting to have a birthday on a holiday, like Halloween or St. Patrick’s Day. (Maybe not so much Christmas, since that holiday is so big that birthdays get forgotten.) It’s even more interesting to have a birthday that falls on two holidays. That’s me. My...
Christmas Eve and Theophany
If your parish is on the Old Calendar, today is Christmas Eve. If your parish is on the New Calendar, today is Theophany. If you’re in a bicalendar parish, today is at once Christmas Eve and Theophany, a day of fasting and a day of feasting, the final day of...
Times and Seasons
My grandmother was an artist. I’m blessed to have some of her paintings. As a young woman, she worked in watercolors. As an old woman, she preferred oils. And in between youth and old age? She didn’t paint. She was busy raising children, running a business, doing the...THE MAGIC OF BOOKS
Share the joy of the Pascha through the magic of a book: Catherine's Pascha.
