Saturday 13 March 2021
Tuesday 9 March 2021
Monday 8 March 2021
The "Vinegar" Bible
John Baskett (1665–1742) attained the title of “printer to the King’s most excellent majesty” in 1709, but his publishing career turned for the worse when he issued this richly-engraved folio Bible in 1717. Quick to point out the Bible’s numerous misprints, Baskett’s competitors branded it “a Baskett-ful of Errors.” The edition’s more lasting nickname has been the “Vinegar Bible,” because the words “Parable of the Vinegar” appear at the top of the page containing Luke 20:9, Christ’s Parable of the Vineyard.
Thursday 4 March 2021
Friday 26 February 2021
Archbishop Seraphim (Sobolev)
On February 26, 1950, Archbishop Seraphim (Sobolev) of Boguchar (Bulgaria), an amazing clergyman and ascetic, a champion of purity of the Orthodox faith, fell asleep in the Lord. Born and educated in Russia, he found eternal rest in Bulgaria, the country where he served from 1921. As a theologian, he is known for his uncompromising stance against ecumenism, modernism, and the Sophianist heresy of Archpriest Sergius Bulgakov. Notably, the Bulgarians know of “Grandpa Vladyka Seraphim” not as a theologian, but more as an ascetic of piety and saint whom God bestowed with the abundant grace of performing miracles. School children and students come to “Dedushka’s” tomb at the St. Nicholas Cathedral in Sofia asking for good grades at exams; cancer patients ask for healing; and those who are in sorrow or sadness flock to him in hope of receiving consolation.
Elder Ephraim of Arizona
Time is continually passing; it is decreasing more and more. Every day that passes is another step toward death. We should know that even one tear of repentance is equivalent to a spiritual bath. Just as the body feels refreshed when it bathes, and just as clothes become clean when they are washed, similarly, the tears of a repentant soul purify the heart, purify the mind, purify the body, purify life, purify speech, and purify a person’s every action.
Let us kneel and pray with extreme humility! Every repentant soul is given words: it is granted enlightened prayer.
Tuesday 23 February 2021
ANTIQUE HOLY BIBLE 1739 OLD & NEW TESTAMENT VOL 2 SAMUEL HUMPHREYS ILLUSTRATED
LARGE ANTIQUE HOLY BIBLE 1739 OLD & NEW TESTAMENT VOLUME 2 SAMUEL HUMPHREYS, ILLUSTRATED.
41cm x 27cm x 7.75cm.
Weight 5.58kg.
Monday 22 February 2021
books
The acquisition of Christian books is necessary for those who can use them. For the mere sight of these books renders us less inclined to sin, and incites us to believe more firmly in righteousness. 'Reading the Scriptures is a great safeguard against sin.’
Abba Epiphanius
Sunday 21 February 2021
Chalk Sunday
'The first Sunday in Lent is called "Chalk Sunday". It is a very old custom that is followed up to the present day, in almost every parish in the country to chalk the clothes of those who have not married during Shrove, and were in a position to marry.'
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