Couldnt see anything in chapel .

Beautiful singing and picture montage. Just curious, there is an additional tenor note on "holy". Is that in your music?

Lord have mercy.

And yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil.

beautiful choir, beautiful hymn, beautiful church. grateful for this choir.

Speechless...I stand in awe...!!! Wow...! Thanks beuatiful..!

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Absolutely beautiful hymn and beautiful rendition! A blessed Lent and glorious Resurrection to all.

L'an dernier....j'y étais en pèlerinage! Gloire à Dieu ! Amen!

One of the most beautiful hymns in the Orthodox Church. Thank you so much for uploading.

Pray for those lost souls Saint Herman.

I may die of the acute cuteness of this. Wow he is being so good and she is anything but quiet. Love the alien face at the end with all the little teeth showing

TY Pravoslavna. I actually got some book listing the "cup vs gram" dilemma but they all list different mesurements. I had the episode with the brownie saved on my TV but lost it or it was delate before I could write it down. :(

nigella.com At the moment there isn't a table of conversions available but for liquids 1 cup = 250ml, 1/2 cup = 125ml, 1/3 cup = 80ml 1/4 cup = 60ml and 1 tablespoon = 15ml. flour (1 cup = 150g), sugar (1 cup = 200g), brown sugar (1 cup packed = 200g), rice (1 cup = 200g), raisins (1 cup = 140g). For butter 1 tablespoon is 15g, 1 stick is 110g &1 cup is 225g. Confectioner's sugar (1 cup = 100g). For oven temperatures the most common conversions are 300F = 150c, 350F = 180c and 400F = 200c.

Do you have an idea as to "grams " and "liters" and not "cups" ?

Brill lads from a Irish piper God Bless you all from Eire

Cute little guy ! From the video, appears Jack likes him?!

very nice...

We were on board on that particular date too but we didn't see this going on.

that is great

We did - it was loads of fun- glad you found my memory of that night and that you were there! Thanks!

I was sitting just to the left of the door as they exited the galley! I Hope you had a great cruise!

Sorry, it was windy that day. This year 2008 - the Bishop was with us, and God does answer prayer, after years of drought on the plains that has been breaking over the last couple of years, this week the high country is getting 5 feet of snow! It has been a glorious winter. Glory to Thee O Lord!

If you are a PETA freak don't bother commenting, I won't approve your comment, go away, we don't agree, bye bye!

I love this video!

The mission trip prior to ours put new siding and built the deck and replaced the dome, etc. Looks great huh?

I am an idiot, the song is How cn I Keep from singing the title track, I was talking on the phone and not paying attention! Forgive me! It is an old Quaker tune and you are right, lovely.

The music is from St. Innocent's Academy in Kodiak Alaska and the second song is Give me your Hand from their "How Can I Keep from Singing" CD They have a Coffee Shop called Monk's Rock in Kodiak, I don't know if it is online, but the academy has a website...

Bells in Orthodoxy are almost always dead hung (cannot swing). When Muslim armies overran Christian lands in the medieval period, they outlawed the ringing of bells. Christians took to beating complex rhythms on wooden planks (semantron) cut to different lengths and hung from ropes. After they were free and able to use bells again, they transferred these traditional rhythms onto bells. It is very hard to ring rhythms on swinging bells.

Pray for us holy St Herman.

In Orthodoxy we believe that when Jesus stepped into the Jordan all of creation was sanctified, blessed. So we bless water, or in the case of Colorado, snow on the day of the Feast. We do it on the Continental Divide so the snow pack is blessed and the run off or melt will bless both sides of the divide.

Interesting! What are the origins of this ritual? Is there something that draws people there?

We are Eastern Orthodox Christians and we go up every year at the feast of Holy Theophany to bless the Waters of the Continental Divide. Being from Colorado, I was warm, and once down off of the pass the day was beautiful and sunny. It was a great day.

You might want to wear warmer clothes next time...BRRR. So why were you up in the mountains and snow?

Beautiful singing. That looks like a lot of hard work :)

Nice vid...and beautifle song...God Bless You!

As to your comment on "swingy bells sounding more alive" that is okay I guess, however, Orthodox Churches don't traditionally have those types of bell towers, they have the kind we built and one or two ringers will ring a particular "song" from the bells for that church. It is all part of the fabric of Orthodoxy and it is beautiful.