Feastday of St. Nicholas

away · Post by **away** » Thu 25 December 2003 9:25 am

I was also at a Slava on Friday, for Father Vicenti, the deacon at the St Sava Monastery at Elaine, where I go to Church mostly.

I like the Serb customs and I really love the Serbs and the Serbian Church. The Serbian's Christian love for strangers and each other was a big part of my conversion.

The brandy I avoid since an incident a few years ago. I was at a priests house and he poured me a shot but I was scared to drink it. When it was time to leave I realized I had better drink it or he might be offended. I just drank it down in one go. At first I just kind of felt a little burning in my throat, nothing much, but by the time we had started driving away, I was in terrible pain, my whole back and neck were on fire, inside and out, I halucinated and lost all sense of up down or anything and I could not speak for about 5 minutes. My friend who was driving was just laughing at me while I sculled coke to try to counter the effects.

OrthodoxyOrDeath · Fri 26 December 2003 9:54 am

http://ecclesiagoc.org/kata%20åíùôéêùí.rtf (GR)
(I am only going to leave the file linked above for a week or so - she may want to copy it.)

I have another book written in Greek that is very good. Unfortunatley, I only have it in hardcopy and it is out of print in Greece. I could copy it on my machine and mail it if you like - send me an address in private.

Tessa · Post by **Tessa** » Fri 26 December 2003 8:38 pm

I am printing it right now and will bring it to work in the morning. Thank you for your help. I will see how far I get and maybe I will pm you about the book. Like I said, it might be a lost cause. For now say a prayer for her, her name is Vasiliki. I am trying now to get her kids baptized or at least IN a church, then we will go from there.

In Christ,
Tessa