[Magdalen] Beautiful Epiphany chant

Jon Egger revegger at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 14:43:26 UTC 2017


The Sisters in Clyde, MO, have a relicquary *room* that is about 30 by 90
yards.  It is full of relics, including a full skeleton wearing vestments.
(I noticed a fiddleback chasuble)

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 10:48 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 1/2/2017 11:26:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > romanos at mindspring.com writes:
> >
> > I will  look for Cologne  Cathedral>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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!
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > David S.
> >
> >
> >
>



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