Welcome to Paedagogus

Liturgical, Patristic, and Personal Reflections on Orthodox Christianity

Current Projects as of January 2008:

• Long hiatus there! This site will receive major updates only during the summer, when there is a little more time. However, I have decided to return to semi-daily blogging, so…
  
• New blog: Posed and Pondered (by Tracy)
  
• Planned updates to Witness to Joy - comments on Fr. Alexander Schmemann, esp. ecclesiological
  
• Reorganizing liturgical resources - bumped to a summer project
  

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Blogs On-site

Fr. Timothy Sawchak

Posed and Pondered (by Tracy)

Witness to Joy - reflections on the writings of Fr. Alexander Schmemann (by Tracy)

Older material —

Greece & Turkey 2006 (by Tracy)

Tracy’s Old Journal - quotes and personal reflections

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Liturgical Material

Liturgical material from the Old Day Journal is in the process of being shifted to the seasonal “books” (see the menus at right). Links to major feasts and mile markers for the Paschal Cycle will be added below.

Old Day Journal - For the liturgical year, Feb. 2006 - April 2007

Twelve Great Feasts

• September 8 - The Nativity of the Theotokos
• September 14 - The Exaltation of the Venerable and Life-Bearing Cross
• November 21 - The Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple
  
• December 25 - The Nativity of the Lord
• January 6 - The Theophany of the Lord
• February 2 - The Meeting of the Lord
• March 25 - The Annunciation to the Theotokos
• Palm Sunday
  
• The Ascension of the Lord
  
• Pentecost
  
• August 6 - The Transfiguration of the Lord
• August 15 - The Dormition of the Theotokos
  

The Feast of Feasts: Great and Holy Pascha

The Paschal Cycle

• Zacchaeus Sunday
• Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee
• Sunday of the Prodigal Son
• Sunday of the Last Judgement - Meatfare
• Sunday of the Expulsion of Adam and Eve - Cheesefare - Forgiveness Sunday
• The First Week of Great Lent
• Great Lent
  
• Sunday of Orthodoxy
• Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas
• Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross
• Sunday of St. John of the Ladder
• Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt
• Lazarus Saturday & Palm Sunday
• Holy Week
  
• GREAT and HOLY PASCHA - The Resurrection of the Lord
• Bright Week
  
• Thomas Sunday
• Sunday of the Myrrh Bearing Women
• Sunday of the Paralytic
• Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
• Sunday of the Blind Man
• Ascension - Thursday, Forty Days after Pascha
  
• Sunday of the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council
• Pentecost - Trinity Sunday, Fifty Days after Pascha
  
• Sunday of All Saints
• Sunday of All Saints of North America

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