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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.

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