Okay, for the record, the Presanctified Liturgy is my favorite of the three liturgies I have done. That "let my prayer arise in Thy sight as incense" song is too beautiful for human ears. (To listen to an MP3 of it click here.) And the fact that it is sung while we all have our facees on the floor and are in a cloud of incense makes it even better. That is Heaven.
We didn't go to Holy Trinity in San Francisco tonight. Instead, we went to St. Nicholas in Saratoga. The abbot from the ROCOR monastery in Seattle (The home of my fave restaurant: The Brooklyn) was there. After the liturgy and after the putluck (Athanasia made Carolina cole slaw. YUM!) the abbot showed us PowerPoint slideshow about the construction of some new buildings. Well, let me take that back... It is a long story that involves the theft of $140,000 by a contractor (he is in prison now), at least one bona fide miracle, the abbot being assaulted, clergy from ROCOR, the Antiochian Archdiocese, and the OCA all working together, God speaking to nuns in Santa Rosa, a whole bunch of non-Orthodox donating time and materials to the building project, and John Ratzenberger donating land to a bunch of monks who were about to lose their dwelling. The new buildings are really just a small part of the story.
Now, as for the pot-luck: WOW! Primo dolmathes, and someone made this very yummy Indian dish out of cubed potatoes and garbonza beans.
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If you are a big fan then you have to be listening to Fr. Apostolos Hill "Gates of Repentance" CD this time of year. The man is incredible. His Lamentations CD is great also.
Yeah! I mean no. He's totally great. I have his funeral CD. But that's the only one I have of him.
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