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"A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, 'You are mad, you are not like us'." --- St Antony of Egypt

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Scott Gilbreath,
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Archive for December 28th, 2008

Child slave imported to US from Egypt

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

An Egyptian girl who was brought to California to work as a domestic slave lived in a garage and was compelled to perform household chores for long hours and pitiful pay.
Shyima was 10 when a wealthy Egyptian couple brought her from a poor village in northern Egypt to work in their California home. She awoke [...]

Brawl in Turkish Parliament over Armenian apology

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

Turkey’s parliament has been in an uproar over the campaign for a public apology to Armenians for the atrocities of 1915. Uncivil language and threats of physical violence are increasing.
Last weekend, a brawl broke out after a Democratic Society Party (DTP) member stated that the World War I-era killings were planned by the sultan [...]

Christmastide Hymn: “Of the Father’s Love Begotten”

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

This morning’s processional hymn on Innocents’ Day/Sunday After Christmas-Day at Christ Church, Windsor. Hymn #79 in The Book of Common Praise (1938), official hymn book for the whole of The Church of England in Canada (later Anglican Church of Canada).
Of the Father’s love begotten
Ere the worlds began to be,
He is Alpha and Omega,
He the Source, [...]

The Innocents’ Day

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

The collect for today, the Feast Day of the Holy Innocents, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer:
O Almighty God, who out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast ordained strength, and madest infants to glorify thee by their deaths; Mortify and kill all vices in us, and so strengthen us by thy [...]

The Sunday After Christmas-Day

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

The collect for today, the Sunday After Christmas-Day, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer:
Almighty God, who hast given us thy only-begotten son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure Virgin; Grant that we being regenerate, and made thy children by adoption and grace, [...]