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		<title>Petition in support of the two Syrian archbishops</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A petition is being presented to President Obama that he do what he can to obtain the release of the two Syrian archbishops who were abducted last week, and to see to a peaceful, negotiated solution to the Syrian conflict. I signed the appeal today; I urge readers of my blog to do likewise. The [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekkos.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1623402&#038;post=1744&#038;subd=bekkos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Syrian bishops not yet freed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday this past week there were reports from Syria that two bishops from Aleppo, one Greek Orthodox (Paul Yazigi) and another Syrian Orthodox (Yohanna Ibrahim), had been kidnapped near the border between Syria and Turkey, and that the driver of their car had been killed. Anonymous Greek Orthodox sources indicated that the kidnappers were [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekkos.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1623402&#038;post=1740&#038;subd=bekkos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lyceum choir to sing on EWTN</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lyceum School Choir — or, to give it its more proper title, the &#8220;Lyceum Schola Cantorum&#8221; — will be singing this Thursday, April 25th, at a televised mass on EWTN. I will be among them, in the bass section. The mass will be televised at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Savings time, and will be [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekkos.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1623402&#038;post=1736&#038;subd=bekkos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Easter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 02:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have not written anything on this blog for a long time; indeed, some readers (if this blog still has readers) may wonder to find me still among the living. But I would like, first, to wish those who celebrated today Christ’s resurrection a Happy Easter. For myself, due to an unusually long gap this [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekkos.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1623402&#038;post=1724&#038;subd=bekkos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Queasy fear</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A queasy fear I sometimes feel arising in my gullet from auditory memory of some demonic trumpet And sometimes I have had to sit awhile and catch my breath when sounds recall the leaden chord of the angel of death It&#8217;s not so often that I hear these inward echoings but when I do, they [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekkos.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1623402&#038;post=1720&#038;subd=bekkos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on Creation and Evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of an ongoing series of lectures at my church here in Cleveland, I was asked to give a talk this past Sunday; I chose to do so on the topic of Creation and Evolution. Aside from certain initial problems connecting my laptop computer to the projector, the presentation went fairly well. I used [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekkos.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1623402&#038;post=1711&#038;subd=bekkos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s remarks at Newtown</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a transcript of an address given by President Obama at an interfaith vigil yesterday evening (Sunday, December 16, 2012) in Newtown, Connecticut, where, on Friday, a young man shot and killed twenty young children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School before killing himself. The source of the transcript is the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekkos.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1623402&#038;post=1705&#038;subd=bekkos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Patriarchal Encyclical for the Indiction and the Day for the Protection of our Natural Environment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 17:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America website. Prot. No. 718 + BARTHOLOMEW By the Mercy of God Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome And Ecumenical Patriarch To the Fullness of the Church Grace and Peace from the Creator and Sustainer of All Creation Our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ Beloved brothers and children in the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekkos.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1623402&#038;post=1669&#038;subd=bekkos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from an ordination</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking through an old notebook last night, I found some brief notes which I jotted down during an ordination on April 12, 1998 (Palm Sunday) in the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Tirana, Albania; I thought I would share them here. The man being ordained to the priesthood was Deacon Llazar Çullai; the speaker was [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekkos.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1623402&#038;post=1658&#038;subd=bekkos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Metropolitan Jonah steps down</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just learned that Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen) has resigned as primate of the Orthodox Church in America. He submitted his letter of resignation this past Friday, July 6; the bishops of the synod, meeting by conference call, accepted his resignation the following day, and, today, appointed Archbishop Nathaniel of Detroit as locum tenens and Bishop [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bekkos.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1623402&#038;post=1647&#038;subd=bekkos&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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