[Magdalen] Beautiful Epiphany chant

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Our hotel was just across the square from St. Isaac's.  One day as we were
getting on our bus, I looked up.

"WHAT!! Are those PEOPLE up there?  Are you <xxx> kidding me??"  That was
quite a dome.  The inside is simply gorgeous.  Of course, almost every
Orthodox Church is gorgeous on the inside, even if you're in the primitive
church such as those on Kiji Island in Lake Onega. We took a cruise from
Sanktpeterburg to Moscow, and stopped at many tiny places, each with tiny
churches and or monasteries. All of them mindblowingly beautiful.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 12:05 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 1/2/2017 11:26:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> romanos at mindspring.com writes:
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> I will  look for Cologne  Cathedral>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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> I looked FROM Cologne Cathedral (512') and FROM Ulm "Cathedral"  (534')
> with my two kids back in the day.  Though I am not generally afraid  of
> heights, having the kids run around the towers' slippery narrow  ledges
> with abandon (neither of them had the slightest fear of heights) was
> plenty nerve wracking.
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> That's the kind of thing you do when you're young.  I don't think any  of
> the three of us could make it to the top of such buildings now!
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> OTOH, my ex-wife WAS afraid of heights, and on a trip to
> Saint Petersburg, Russia (I wasn't along that time), found herself
> in a line of tourists circumambulating the great dome of Saint  Issac's
> Cathedral.  There was no turning back.  Turns out her Russian  wasn't
> as good as she thought, and she missed the warning sign.
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> David S.
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