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Byzantine Basics, Gospels -

Yesterday's Gospel reading features the healing of the paralytic. St. Mark writes that there were so many people crowded around Jesus to hear Him preach. So many people were crowded in a house, in all the rooms, in the hallway, out into the front door, out to the corridor surrounding the house. So many people that the paralytic man had to be lowered THROUGH THE ROOF! in order for Jesus to see him.

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Byzantine Basics, Gospels -

The Gospel reading from yesterday was Nathanael's and Jesus' encounter with each other, when Jesus tells Nathanael that He saw him under the fig tree.

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Byzantine Basics, Gospels, The Great Fast -

It's here! The Great Fast has arrived.

Yesterday's Gospel from Matthew has three main themes.

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Byzantine Basics, Gospels, The Great Fast -

Can you believe we're one week away from the start of the Great Fast? It simultaneously feels like it's snuck up on me and also that it took a long time to arrive this year!

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Feast Day, Saints -

Today we celebrate St. Mariamna. St. Mariamna was the sister of St. Philip.

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