to have found such a wonderful parish as mine…..I just checked my voice mail and my only message was from one of the other readers at my parish, calling to let me know that she thought I’d done a very nice job with the Epistle on this Sunday past. I should say first of all that when one is a reader in a Byzantine church one is really a singer…..the Epistle is chanted just as the rest of the Divine Liturgy (we do have a couple of readers who actually read, but I sing). Second, this past Sunday’s Epistle was one of those that I don’t think you’ll ever hear in a Novus Ordo parish – 1 Corinthians 6:12-20. I am too lazy to look it up in the NAB to see how the words “prostitute” and “fornicator” are rendered in that translation, but suffice it to say that the former word was in the reading twice, and the latter once. And I was very nervous about the possibility I might stumble over the words, and cause people to think I was being immature and doing that teenage twittering thing. So when I listened to my fellow reader’s message on my voice mail, I got a bit misty and am going to do something very nice for her in the near future. Anonymously, probably.
Happy Anniversary, Fun Monday!
January 21, 2008 · 16 Comments
Our assignment this week is “the view” – specifically, the view from our front doors. So, here’s mine:
One of the limitations of a camera phone is that it only takes nice pictures close up. You can’t see the ’skyline’ as clearly as I can when I look out the door…..and in the summertime you can’t even see the house across the street for the leaves on the trees.
Also taken from my fornt porch:
As you may have guessed I live on top of a hill!
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