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April 24, 2022icons, PaschaGretchenJoanna

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gretchenOrthodox Christian, widowed in 2015; mother of five and grandmother of eighteen (including one great-grandchild), living in Northern California.
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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.

Some Recent Reads:

Saint Innocent: Apostle to America by Paul D. Garrett

The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly

I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Barton de Trevino

How Languages Saved Me by Tadeusz Haska

Greengrass of Wyoming by Mary O’Hara

Technopoly by Neil Postman

Thunderhead by Mary O’Hara

Father by Elizabeth von Arnim

My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara

Up and Down California by William H. Brewer

The New Media Epidemic by Jean-Claude Larchet

The Eucharist by Alexander Schmemann

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