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Does anyone remember the scene in the second or third Star Trek movie — I forget which — when Dr. McCoy asks Jim Kirk how he’s feeling, Kirk answers, with a sense of wonder: “Young. I feel young.”
I feel old. More than that, I find, to my bemusement, that I am old. [...]

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As I think I have posted before, I have been steadily transcribing the Matins and Vespers prayers of the Church into my computer, formatting them into a Franklin Compact planner size so that I can take them with me either when I travel, or on my way to class, or just out for a morning [...]

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Visiting my priest yesterday, and since my daughter lives not too far away, I thought I’d pop over and see what she was up to. What she was up to was lying on the sofa, the victim of a tummy bug. She wasn’t writhing in agony, and she was able to hold a [...]

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Tone 8: It is the day of Resurrection;/ let us be radiant for the festival,/ and let us embrace one another with joy./ Let us say, O brethren, even to those that hate us:/ Let us forgive all things on the Resurrection:/ and thus, let us cry:
Christos anesti ek nekron,/ thanato [...]

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Wow…

I purposely kept this off the other blog, which I know these two read, just so I wouldn’t exacerbate the situation. It’s been a long, long time since I had to deal with this kind of…well, I guess I’d better not say it. No point making things worse.
I will say this, though. [...]

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