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The Kansas Visitation of The Wonderworking Kursk Root Icon of Our Lady of the Sign
November 2, 2010: St. George Cathedral, Wichita

THE WONDERWORKING KURSK ROOT ICON of Our Lady of the Sign is again scheduled to visit Kansas. The icon will arrive at St George Cathedral, 7515 East 13th, Wichita, KS on Tuesday, November 2nd, and the Akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos will be chanted before it beginning at 6:30 PM. All clergy and faithful of the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America are invited to attend. Clergy who plan to attend are asked to inform Fr. James Shahid (fatherjames@stgeorgecathedral.net), the second priest at St George Cathedral, and are asked to wear blue vestments.
The following night, Wednesday November 3rd, the Holy Icon will be at St. George Serbian Orthodox Church, 11001 Greenwood St., Lexana, KS. That night the Akathist will begin a 7:00 PM. The Kursk Root Icon has its own homepage: http://www.kurskroot.com/kursk_root_icon_home.html.
An edifying article about the icon reprinted from Orthodox Life vol. 32 No. 6 (1982) can be found at http://www.holycross-hermitage.com/pages/Orthodox_Life/kursk_icon.htm.

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Beginning with the October 2004 issue, orthodoxkansas.org is pleased to offer for download A Cloud of Witnesses, the parish newsletter of All Saints Orthodox Church:

Current Issue and Archive of Past Issues
Besides containing parish announcements, the newsletter includes edifying spiritual readings, written or compiled from patristic sources ancient and modern by Archimandrite Daniel Griffith, pastor of All Saints, and senior priest of the Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
orthodoxkansas.org also provides a variety of resources for Orthodox Christians and those interested in learning more about the Holy Orthodox Faith:

Suggested readings for the Inquirers' Classes and Catechism Classes at St. Mary Magdalene are available for download in MSWord format in the Christian Education section of the St. Mary Magdalene Mission webpage.
A Brief History of the Holy Orthodox Church (with particular emphasis on North America and our Archdiocese)
Nearby Parishes (Websites and other info)

All Saints Orthodox Church, St. Mary Magdalene Mission,Holy Transfiguration Mission and Three Hierarchs Mission are all under the omophorion of Bishop BASIL of the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America of the Self-Ruled Antiochican Archdiocese of North America.
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Nearby Orthodox Christian parishes (with links to homepages or other information):

Fledgling mission serving the Manhattan/ Ft. Riley/ Junction City area under the care of SS. Peter and Paul, Topeka. Host church to the K-State OCF.
All Saints Orthodox Church

Services now held in a chapel of the Lutheran Church of the Resurrection,
9100 Mission Road (corner of Mission and 91st Street), Prairie Village, KS 66206
St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church

Outreach AlaskaHomepage of the Wichta-based outreach ministry in support of the OCA's Russian Orthodox Diocese of Alaska. Provides a variety of programs by which more materially well-endowed communities and individuals in the Lower-48 can provide assistance to the Church in our North American spiritual homeland. All Saints, Salina and St. Mary Magdalene, Manhattan have joined with SS. Peter and Paul, Topeka and St. Mary, Wichita to participate in Outreach Alaska's Adopt-a-Seminarian Program.
St. Herman Theological SeminarHomepage of the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Alaska's seminary, where Archpriest Chad Hatfield, the founding priest of both All Saints, Salina and St. Mary Magdalene, Manhattan, lately served as Academic Dean.
St. Gregory Palamas Monastery Homepage of the English-speaking monastery of the Greek Archdiocese near Mansfield, Ohio, includes many edifying passages from the Holy Fathers not available elsewhere in English.
St. Michael's Skete Website of the OCA men's monastery in Caones, NM. Includes an archive of Doxa, the Skete's quarterly journal, which publishes topical articles on current issues; book, and occasionally, movie reviews; and spiritually edifying mediations.
The Prologue from Ochrid The classic compendium of lives of the Saints by St. Nikolai Velimirovic. The site, maintained by the Protection of the Mother of God Church (ROCOR), directs first to a page containing the lives from the Prologue for the saints commemorated that day on the Old Calendar. The Prologue search link gives access to the entire Prologue, but with links to the saint commorated on the given date on the civil calendar by those Orthodox following the Old Calendar, so the site is a little awkward for those of us on the New Calendar to use.
Orthodox Christian News Site maintained by the Orthodox Christian Laity, an organization actively working for the unity of the various canonical Orthodox jurisdictions into one organically united Orthodox Church: Orthodox-related news releases from a broad variety of news agencies, plus editorials & reader-reactions.
St. Pachomius Library A first draft of for an encyclopedia of Orthodox Christianity.
The Orthodox Christian Foundation useful links to other Orthodox sites and edifying reading.
Eighth Day Books On Line The website of Wichita's jewel of a bookstore, with probably the best selection in the US of Orthodox Christian books under one roof.
The Goodwins' Transylvanian Times Newsletter webpage for the missionary projects in Romania, led or assisted by the Goodwin family, Orthodox Christians from Kansas.
Ancient Faith Radio Orthodox internet radio, programming includes the Daily Orthros, the Hours, Vespers and the Midnight Office, broadcast of the Sunday Divine Liturgy, and a "Great Tapes" series. Between programs named on the schedule at the website, the station plays recorded hymns of the Church and offers brief edifying readings from the Holy Fathers and the lives of the Saints. A ministry of All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church, Chicago, IL.
The Antiochian Archdiocese homepage for the North American exarchate of the Patriarchate of Antioch, the Archdiocese under whose jurisdiction the clergy of all parishes and missions with pages hosted on orthodoxkansas.org serve
The Orthodox Church in America homepage of the (autocephalous) Orthodox Church of America.
The Greek Archdiocese homepage for the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, the North American exarchate of the Patriarch of Constantinople. Includes links to the Orthodox World News.
ROCOR homepage of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. Two on-line publications of this fervently traditional Orthodox jurisdiction can be found at Orthodox America and The Orthodox Family (back- issues only).

The Orthodox Christian belongs to the Body of Christ, the Church of Christ. This Eastern Orthodox Church is organically the same congregation (or ecclesia) which was born at the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Jerusalem on Pentecost, a direct continuation from the Apostles by laying on of hands from each generation of priests to the next. The Orthodox Christian recognizes the rich Christian heritage and proclaims that he belongs to this Church, which corresponds to the Church of the Apostles as does a grown-up person correspond to a picture taken of him as a child.

The Orthodox Christian has been baptized in the name of the Holy Trinity and follows the ideals and beliefs of both the Scriptures and Sacred Tradition. He believes in a living and loving God, Whose Grace protects and guides him in the path of redemption. He believes that God has revealed Himself in the Bible through the Prophets and especially in the Person of Jesus Christ, His only-begotten Son who is man's Savior. He especially believes in the Incarnation of Christ as God-Man, in His Crucifixion and Resurrection, in His Gospel and Commandments, and in the world to come.

(Excerpts from THE FAITH WE HOLD by Archbishop Paul of Finland)

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible;

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only-begotten, Begotten of the Father before all worlds, Light of Light, Very God of Very God, Begotten, not made; of one essence with the Father, by whom all things were made:

Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and was made man;

And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried;

And ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of the Father;

And He shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead, Whose kingdom shall have no end.

And I believe in the Holy Spirity, the Lord and Giver of Life, Who proceeds from the Father, Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, Who spoke by the Prophets;

I look for the Resurrection of the dead, and the Life of the world to come. Amen.

This statement of belief was drawn up at the first two universal or Ecumenical Councils of the Church, at Nicaea in 325 and Constantinople in 381.

Those interested in learning more about Orthodox Christian teachings and about Orthodox Christian positions on contemporary issues may find the following links useful.

An Orthodox Catechism link to a catechism in the Orthodox Page in America website: good reading, but, alas organized as one big document without internal hyperlinks.
The Orthodox Christian Faith A nice hyperlinked collection of texts giving introductions and histories for both basic Orthodox Christian doctrines and their applications to contemporary circumstances and issues, produced by the Greek Orthodox Archdioces of Australia.
An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith by St. John of Damascus, the first systematic account of the Faith, written by one of the great Church Fathers, and still a classic after 1200 years. (Some modern readers may be put off by the fact that some of the latter sections illustrate the greatness of God's creation in terms of then-current scientific theories. St. John himself, however, makes it clear that these theories are not part of the Faith, as he expounds various competing and contradictory theories on almost every point.)

The Nativity Fast begins on 15 November and is broken on the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ on 25 December. During the first part of the fast, the strict Lenten rule is observed on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, with a katalysis for oil and wine on Tuesdays and Thursdays and for fish, oil and wine on Saturdays and Sundays.
Some authorities provide a katalysis for fish, oil and wine on all days except Wednesdays and Fridays (and Mondays for those under penance) and call for the strict Lenten rule to be observed beginning on 18 December (with a katalysis for oil and wine only on Saturdays and Sundays). Others extend the katalysis for oil and wine to Mondays for those not under penance. Yet others call for the strict Lenten rule to be observed only from 20 December to the end of the fast.
The detailed listing of major and minor feasts formerly offered in this space can be found in the monthly calendar on the St. Mary Magdalene Mission webpage, and The Cloud of Witnesses.

This site is authored and maintained by David Yetter dyetter@math.ksu.edu, who serves the St. Mary Magdalene Mission as a lowly subdeacon and Mission Council Secretary. The frames version of the St. Mary Magdalene Mission webpage was produced by Christian Yetter.
Last updated 14 November 2010.
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