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Alice, Incognitius, and Father Anthony,
Thank you!!!
χρονια η πολλα!
What's that?
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my guess would be something in Kloine Greek.
You never know with incognitus, it could be the primer to crack the priory of sion code.
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It is Greek for many years!
Everyone baptized into Christ should pass progressively through all the stages of Christ's own life, for in baptism he receives the power so to progress, and through the commandments he can discover and learn how to accomplish such progression. - Saint Gregory of Sinai
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Happy XXX Birthday Doc...
There are good and some "interesting" things in Santa Monica...too bad that the cities out here don't live up to their saintly names...
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Многая літа!
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Dr. Eric, Happy 30th Birthday! Would you mind sharing a couple years with me, so I can be 21? It'd make things much easier!  And you could be 28 again! Now wouldn't that please both of us?  Logos Teen
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Hopefully, you enjoyed your birthday Dr. Eric. For some of us, we have totally switched to celebrating only our name's day. We don't have to associate a number with that one.  Many Years! In IC XC, Father Anthony+
Everyone baptized into Christ should pass progressively through all the stages of Christ's own life, for in baptism he receives the power so to progress, and through the commandments he can discover and learn how to accomplish such progression. - Saint Gregory of Sinai
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Father Anthony, That would make you at least 1600 years old!!! Thanks to EVERYONE who wished me a happy birthday!
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Originally posted by Dr. Eric: Father Anthony,
That would make you at least 1600 years old!!!
Thanks to [b]EVERYONE who wished me a happy birthday! [/b] Well from an oldie to a youngun Belated Birthday wishes - and many many more of them
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Dr Eric, That would be 1700+, but who is counting . You lose track after 30. In IC XC, Father Anthony+
Everyone baptized into Christ should pass progressively through all the stages of Christ's own life, for in baptism he receives the power so to progress, and through the commandments he can discover and learn how to accomplish such progression. - Saint Gregory of Sinai
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Eric:
Mnohaya Lyeta! Mnohaya Lyeta! Mno-----Hya-le---ta!
(sung of course!)
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Originally posted by Father Anthony: Hopefully, you enjoyed your birthday Dr. Eric. For some of us, we have totally switched to celebrating only our name's day. We don't have to associate a number with that one.
Many Years!
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Father Anthony+ Fr. Anthony, Bless! I am with you on that since I have stopped counting...besides with my first name I get to celebrate several name's days a year. My mother, whose memory I cherish, told me that when she was a girl growing up in Europe she and her family only celebrated name's days and not birthdays. Mary Jo
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Dear Dr Eric, Happy Birthday! Traditionally, EC's and EO's celebrated only the Namesday of their patronal saint. The saint's day fell on or near one's birthday so it was like a birthday. My grandfather, for example, Fr. John, celebrated his Namesday on the Old Calendar feast of the Birthday of John the Baptist on July 7th. I did not know, until his funeral, that his birthday was on July 4th (God bless America!). Everyone has their calendars with the Saint's names on them, of course, so it was relatively easy to see what Saint's day it was and to wish your friends the best on their days. I have a video of a Russian family today celebrating a child's namesday - he is seated in the icon corner as a guest of honour, people sing songs for him and he is given presents and there is a party with the participation of an Orthodox priest who tells him the significance of the life of his patron saint. I understand the Church once forbade the celebration of birthdays as a pagan tradition - and instead ordered the marking of saints' days to signify one's spiritual birth (the name received via baptism). In the East, one may receive only ONE Christian name. Among the East Slavs, one has three names - the Christian name, the Patronym (i.e. Ivanovich or "Son of John") and then the Surname. What is your father's name, may I ask? Also, since there could be many saints by one's name, one does choose the saint closest to one's birthday - mine is St Alexius the Man of God and on his day this year, I will be 50 years old . . . I was actually born on March 29th, but since no one knows for sure at what time of the day I was born, I wait until the eve of St Alexis' day just to be sure . . . Alex
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Regarding namedays...Alex (Orthodox/Catholic of the Peacable Kingdom)is correct.
I must admit that as a young third generation American, I thought it was strange that in Greece of thirty some years ago, they did not celebrate birthdays--only namedays. (Ofcourse, that has now changed).
Traditionally, in Greece, on a popular saint's nameday you would pay a visit to all the people you knew who had that name. They were ofcourse expecting visitors all day, so they had, in essence, what we would call an 'open house' and special homemade sweets and drink were waiting.
Then life got a little more complicated, and not everyone welcomed a deluge of visitors to their busy lives, so newspapers actually started printing a page of names of those who were 'accepting' visitors for the day!
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So, since my patron saint is St. Alexis the Man-of-God, and name of the saint given to me at birth it St. Samuel (the Old Testament Prophet and Judge), which nameday should I celebrate?
I don't even know if Samuel has a feastday in the Roman liturgical calendar!
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