The Easter Saturday Story, aka The Harrowing of Hell
Not terribly well-known in modern evangelical circles, the belief that Christ after His death went to the land of the dead and freed the righteous dead and/or announced His victory over […]
Category Archives: liturgical calendar
Trinity Sunday: Gregory Thaumaturgus’ Creed
There is one God, the Father of the living Word, who is the substantive wisdom and eternal power and image of God: the perfect origin (begetter) of the perfect (begotten): […]
Christmas Comes Sooner Than You Think
Well, at Wal*Mart anyway. They’ve already started putting out Christmas music. Obviously they are not followers of any sort of church calendar. Or even most secularists’ calendar, either, who are […]
Pentecost and Trinity Sunday: Church Fathers
Today, Sunday June 7, 2009 is Trinity Sunday in the traditional Roman calendar. Furthermore it is the Day of Pentecost in the Orthodox calendar. Since I missed Western Pentecost last […]
