[Magdalen] Sunday Funny

[Grace Cangialosi]

"Holy Myrrhbearers"??  Surely you jest...

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 8:07 PM Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> This past Sunday I visited the local ROCOR (Russian Orthodox Church Outside
> Russia) parish. More about why in another post. But before I made it there,
> I had a slight bump along the way. Holy Myrrhbearers Church meets in a
> converted dentist's office building and you go around back to get there.
> It's really pretty well marked except....which door to go in. I opened the
> first door and found myself in a tiny congregation of black faces with a
> liturgy being chanted in a *very* unfamiliar tongue. A lovely lady looked
> at me with an expression of part understanding and part amusement and said,
> "You look for Russia? Next door." Between the combination of the expression
> on her face and the way she put the question it was all I could do not to
> break into a fit of giggles. However, I followed her directions and shortly
> found myself in Russia...er, the correct place.
>


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Grace Cangialosi
Ruckersville, VA

*"Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great
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