Holy Week, the beautiful week before Christ’s Resurrection is a highlight for many Christians. Especially in the Orthodox traditions, there are numerous services leading up to Good Friday and Pascha/Easter/Pascua (in Spanish). Yesterday we celebrated Palm Sunday with a procession around the grounds with freshly cut palms singing Hosanna, just like those back 2000 years back. Last night, and tonight we have held Bridegroom Matins in the chapel. We sing hymns praising our savior, our Bridegroom who came, died, and trampled down death by death. We’re reminded that we have no garment that is worthy of our bridegroom. But in true love, he saved us from death and allowed us to be sons and heirs of His great kingdom.
Here at the ranch the boys are off for spring break, and will be able to attend all the services this week. We are all growing excited in anticipation of this Sunday. It is a great blessing to have Fr. Evangelos Pepps here with us. Having a priest here for the services makes the services so much more fulfilling.
Please keep us in your prayers here at St. Innocents. Blessed Holy Week and blessed struggle!
Take care, God bless!
Monday, March 29, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
can you believe it's March?
Just wanted to share what’s been happening recently at St. Innocents.
The last couple weeks we’ve been doing some roofing on a couple of our buildings. Up in the sun all day, I’ve developed a serious farmer’s tan. As long as I keep my shirt on, you could almost pass for a Mexican! Well… maybe not yet, but working my way towards that!
Life for the boys has stayed pretty constant recently. We’ve been going through the season of Lent before Pascha/Easter. In a week the boys will be off for a couple weeks for spring break. All of us are looking forward to Holy Week.
Today, after doing some prep for a group coming tomorrow, I was able to join in a large game of futbol. We were playing down on the big field, and it was quite the game with a number of the counselors joining in as well. Two hours of playing, the game settled at 5-3.
Even though it sometimes seems like my Spanish is day to day, one day being passable, other times unintelligible, today at least seemed like a decent day. My comprehension continues to improve, and my speaking the language continues to follow. As always, it’s always an exciting experience when you hear a sentence or conversation, that you couldn’t understand beforehand, but are able to understand now.
The last couple weeks we’ve been doing some roofing on a couple of our buildings. Up in the sun all day, I’ve developed a serious farmer’s tan. As long as I keep my shirt on, you could almost pass for a Mexican! Well… maybe not yet, but working my way towards that!
Life for the boys has stayed pretty constant recently. We’ve been going through the season of Lent before Pascha/Easter. In a week the boys will be off for a couple weeks for spring break. All of us are looking forward to Holy Week.
Today, after doing some prep for a group coming tomorrow, I was able to join in a large game of futbol. We were playing down on the big field, and it was quite the game with a number of the counselors joining in as well. Two hours of playing, the game settled at 5-3.
Even though it sometimes seems like my Spanish is day to day, one day being passable, other times unintelligible, today at least seemed like a decent day. My comprehension continues to improve, and my speaking the language continues to follow. As always, it’s always an exciting experience when you hear a sentence or conversation, that you couldn’t understand beforehand, but are able to understand now.
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