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The Falling Asleep of Mary

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August 16, 2015church, feastsFeast of the DormitionGretchenJoanna

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I am Gretchen Joanna, an Orthodox Christian widow; mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, living in Northern California.

You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, but she'll always come back. -Horace

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Psalms quoted are from The Psalter, translated from the Greek Septuagint by the Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Boston, Massachusetts, 2007. The numbering of the Psalms in the Septuagint differs from that found in Psalters and Bibles translated from the Hebrew.

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