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Custom Service Books created for the
Dormition Cemetery Chapel at
Life-Giving Spring Monastery
Dunlap, California
The feast is celebrated on the anniversary of the day on which St. Helena found the True Cross on which Jesus of Nazareth was crucified.
The feast also commemorates the day in 335 AD on which the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem was dedicated,and the day in 629 AD on which Patriarch Sergius I elevated the True Cross at Hagia Sophia after it was recaptured from the Persians by Byzantine Emperor Heraclius.
Along with Great Friday, it is one of the two Orthodox feast days which is a strict fast.
Fasting is observed for this feast no matter on what day of the week it falls.
In Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the official name of the feast is "Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Lifegiving Cross".
During religious service on the feast day, a cross decorated with flowers is brought into the middle of the church by a procession, accompanied by candles and incense.
The priest elevates the cross in four cardinal directions, each time repeating a benediction.
The congregation also says the Doamne, miluieste!(Kýrie, eléison) a hundred times.
“Come now, let’s settle this,”
says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
I will make them as white as snow.
Though they are red like crimson,
I will make them as white as wool.
The feast is celebrated on the anniversary of the day on which St. Helena found the True Cross on which Jesus of Nazareth was crucified.
The feast also commemorates the day in 335 AD on which the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem was dedicated,and the day in 629 AD on which Patriarch Sergius I elevated the True Cross at Hagia Sophia after it was recaptured from the Persians by Byzantine Emperor Heraclius.
Along with Great Friday, it is one of the two Orthodox feast days which is a strict fast.
Fasting is observed for this feast no matter on what day of the week it falls.
In Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the official name of the feast is "Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Lifegiving Cross".
During religious service on the feast day, a cross decorated with flowers is brought into the middle of the church by a procession, accompanied by candles and incense.
The priest elevates the cross in four cardinal directions, each time repeating a benediction.
The congregation also says the Doamne, miluieste!(Kýrie, eléison) a hundred times.
I took this shot during the eclipse on 20.3.15, but the eclipse did not show.
Its a beautiful building, an old prestigious High School, now converted into flats. (What does this say about education in Scotland?).
Came out well as a B/W, with good clouds.
There is a partial eclipse up there somewhere, but my Canon 550D could not capture it, regardless of the filters used.
The drought here was a killer. Several trees on the rock face were either dead or dying. But as you can see, it has rained for a few days on end here, and the lifegiving pools are back again. Many very endangered species of plants and animals call this place their home, and I hate to see this happen, but its nature. Its amazing to begin with, that trees can grow from small pools on a rock face.
A few things to know about forty acre rock. It is the largest diabase dike in the eastern US. It lays near the Pageland fault, a dead faultline that separates the Piedmont slate belt from the SC sandhills; and the rock itself, as well as the surrounding mountains, was created by a volcanic extrusion from the fault caused by our old friends, the Earth's plates, crashing into each other. The same reaction that also, much more recently, created the Appalachian chain. Of the lesser known "mountains outside of the mountains" formed before the Apps, (Crowders mountain range, Sauratown mountains, South mountains, and quite a few more up and down the Eastern Seabord) this is the one that really goes unnoticed.
The granite itself is called Pageland Granite, its only found in the close surrounding areas and is actively quarried. Its an aggregate rock, never given to having a smooth face, and very rough and grainy in texture. In the more worn boulders, it resembles tiny rocks of marble bound in concrete.
The park itself features two parking areas at separate trailheads, a nature trail around a beaver pond, two continuous creeks, several peaks of varying height, a waterfall, two caves, and cascades. And of course, the rock itself.
The feast is celebrated on the anniversary of the day on which St. Helena found the True Cross on which Jesus of Nazareth was crucified.
The feast also commemorates the day in 335 AD on which the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem was dedicated,and the day in 629 AD on which Patriarch Sergius I elevated the True Cross at Hagia Sophia after it was recaptured from the Persians by Byzantine Emperor Heraclius.
Along with Great Friday, it is one of the two Orthodox feast days which is a strict fast.
Fasting is observed for this feast no matter on what day of the week it falls.
In Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the official name of the feast is "Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Lifegiving Cross".
During religious service on the feast day, a cross decorated with flowers is brought into the middle of the church by a procession, accompanied by candles and incense.
The priest elevates the cross in four cardinal directions, each time repeating a benediction.
The congregation also says the Doamne, miluieste!(Kýrie, eléison) a hundred times.
Manitoulin Island gets her first serving of graceous, lifegiving light in this crisp morning hour. I am as sleepy as the lazy ladybug I found laying on a rock next to me enjoying the sight of a new day being born.
Anxious and unsure about his future, Abdul was 14 years old when he joined the electronics and computer program offered by the Joint Christian Committee for Social Service (JCC) in Lebanon. Now 19 years old and equipped with a diploma and five years of experience, he has a good job and an income to support his family. JCC’s vocational training programs teach marketable skills and offer hope for many young Palestinian refugees who are out of school and living without a dream or ambition. Through gifts to Presbyterians Sharing, the PCC has been supporting this lifegiving program since 2018. Sylvia Haddad, JCC Director, shared that “equipping youth, and especially refugees who have nothing, with a skill or vocation is very important. The challenge is great, but we cannot give up and are grateful for your support.”
The feast is celebrated on the anniversary of the day on which St. Helena found the True Cross on which Jesus of Nazareth was crucified.
The feast also commemorates the day in 335 AD on which the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem was dedicated,and the day in 629 AD on which Patriarch Sergius I elevated the True Cross at Hagia Sophia after it was recaptured from the Persians by Byzantine Emperor Heraclius.
Along with Great Friday, it is one of the two Orthodox feast days which is a strict fast.
Fasting is observed for this feast no matter on what day of the week it falls.
In Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the official name of the feast is "Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Lifegiving Cross".
During religious service on the feast day, a cross decorated with flowers is brought into the middle of the church by a procession, accompanied by candles and incense.
The priest elevates the cross in four cardinal directions, each time repeating a benediction.
The congregation also says the Doamne, miluieste!(Kýrie, eléison) a hundred times.
To All My Wonderful Followers, If You Smoke Please Don't Take Offence. I Lost My Dad To #Smoking & Witnessed His Awful, Slow, Gradual Deterioration To An Earlier End To His Life Than He Should Have Had. To See Him Fight For Every Breath & Have To Endure Forced Breathing Which Exhausted Him & Spit Up #Blood From His Lifegiving #Lungs I Simply Would Not Wish This Awful, Tragic Demise On Anyone (Friend Or Foe) So If You've Ever Thought About Kicking An Expensive Antisocial & #Addictive #Habit Then Please Consider Giving Up Now, For Your #Health & Especially That Of Your #Family & #Friends. If Just One Person Acts Now & Quits Smoking It Will Be Very Much Worth It! If You Feel You Want To Unfollow Having Read This Then I Understand, But Know That I've Never Been A Fairweather Friend To Anyone, Nor Do I Ever Intend To Be Kind Regards \X/ish. Much Love To My Father, Now Safe In Gods Hands. Amen.
To All My Wonderful Followers, If You Smoke Please Don't Take Offence. I Lost My Dad To #Smoking & Witnessed His Awful, Slow, Gradual Deterioration To An Earlier End To His Life Than He Should Have Had. To See Him Fight For Every Breath & Have To Endure Forced Breathing Which Exhausted Him & Spit Up #Blood From His Lifegiving #Lungs I Simply Would Not Wish This Awful, Tragic Demise On Anyone (Friend Or Foe) So If You've Ever Thought About Kicking An Expensive Antisocial & #Addictive #Habit Then Please Consider Giving Up Now, For Your #Health & Especially That Of Your #Family & #Friends. If Just One Person Acts Now & Quits Smoking It Will Be Very Much Worth It! If You Feel You Want To Unfollow Having Read This Then I Understand, But Know That I've Never Been A Fairweather Friend To Anyone, Nor Do I Ever Intend To Be Kind Regards \X/ish. Much Love To My Father, Now Safe In Gods Hands. Amen.
Don't Smoke!
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Featuring the softer tones of the color spectrum for this period of May.
Then came fair May, the fayrest mayd on ground,
Deckt all with the dainties of her season's pryde,
And throwing flowres out of her lap around:
Upon two brethren's shoulders she did ride,
The twinnes of Leda; which on either side
Supported her, like to their soveraine quene.
Lord! how all creatures laught, when her they spide,
And leapt and daunc't as they had ravisht been!
And Cupid selfe about her fluttered all in greene.
— Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 - January 13, 1599), English poet; Faerie Queen, ‘The Cantos of Mutabilitie’
Cairnpapple sits atop a 312m Hill with breath-taking views towards Edinburgh in the East and over the Firth of Forth to the North.
See Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairnpapple_Hill
for lots of information regarding this neo-lithic site.
Shot taken one evening in March 2015, when the sun was getting low (hence the shadows starting to appear).
OXYGEN women's Conference for the soul 2011 A gathering of Women to be one force to be the architect of Change in their world.
You are the light on the Hill in your community.... Now shine.
The city was known as the Desert Rose, it wore its name well. Sandstone walls of pinkish hue towered above the rolling sands, stretching out for days on three sides. The ocean guarded the fourth, it was here that she liked to watch the sunset, the glowing lifegiving orb dipping into the waves drew the finest colours from the city which was her home...
This look, and more of the story is blogged on Eclectic Equations here...
eclecticequations.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/desert-rose-bloc...