So what you're saying is I need to lurk less and type more?

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.

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*[ casually bombs soloing favorite nativity hymn in front of the entire parish ]*

i found u on accident >:D

This isn't true, it's canon for the entire communion. However, it isn't in our lectionary, our cycle of readings, because Revelation's canonicity was decided after the lectionary was established.

We have it in all our Bibles, you just won't hear it at a service, besides some references in hymns.

Reflection: Age & Legacy (pt. 3) "Indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun." - Ecclesiastes 2:11b

Part three (and finale) in a series of introspective posts...

Reflection: Age & Legacy (pt. 2) "Better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for that is the end of all men; and the living will take it to heart." - Ecclesiastes 7:2

Part two in a series of introspective posts...

Reflection: Age and Legacy (pt. 1) "To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to keep, and a time to throw away;" - Ecclesiastes 3:1, 6 (NKJV)

The start of a series of introspective posts...

Depiction of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple, found in the Menologion of Basil II.

Blessed feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple!

Daily Orthodox | Rdr. Seraphim Pardee | Substack The daily Synaxarion and Scripture readings for Orthodox Christians, according to the Revised Julian calendar. Click to read Rdr. Seraphim Pardee, a Substack publication. Launched 3 months ago.

For all the fellow #Orthodox out there, I post the daily commemorations and Scripture readings on a separate newsletter of my Substack. :)

this
is not poetry
but rather
an inconvenience

This is a bit derived from how it's sung in our parish. I'd have to double check what our actual sheet music has.

so uh... where are the fellow orthodox at?

not that i'm eager for a lot of orthotwitter fellas coming this way, but y'know, some camaraderie would be nice

Sheet music of the Orthodox "Many Years" in OCA common chant, modified to replace "many years" with "sufficient years."

I don't know about you guys but my liturgical music composing career is only gonna skyrocket from here.

#orthodox #christian #chant

Photo of the week: a newlywed archbishop - Orthodox History In the half-dozen years before his wedding on April 29, 1933, Archbishop Aftimios Ofiesh had moved further and further away from mainstream Orthodoxy, setting himself up as the head of an “autocepha...

for example: did you know that the American Orthodox Catholic Church was an attempt at creating a proper American church by the Metropolia (now-OCA) but then the bishop assigned to it basically went "screw it, this is america" and got married?

orthodoxhistory.org/2012/04/27/p...

listen, i ain't got much to offer, but i've got a ton of American Orthodox history facts to share

halò, a shaoghal
hello world