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“Come See Something Beautiful…”: a Beginning

The quotation that we use as the title for our Substack is one that I first ran across in the early 1990’s.

Jul 30, 2025 • Fr. Aidan

Before we tackle the next topic on our list, there are probably more than a few things that are puzzling you.

Mar 22 • Fr. Aidan

Weekend Update 3/20

Praying with the Most Holy Theotokos, with the Metropolitan, and with you

Mar 20 • Fr. Aidan

Offerings and prayers are also intimately connected; they prepare us for the Divine Liturgy. In every parish, that starts in with a service called the…

Mar 18 • Fr. Aidan

Altar Connection

When you’re talking about Orthodox architecture, sometimes, that’s just the only appropriate reaction.

Mar 15 • Fr. Aidan

Recent posts

Weekend Update 3/13

Lots of converts, lots of building programs... and we’ve got an idea.

Mar 13 • Deacon Seraphim Hart

We focused on offerings in our last post. Today, we’re going to talk about how that works; we’re going to focus on prayer.

Mar 11 • Fr. Aidan

My family had a Sunday morning routine that would have impressed any member of the medieval Byzantine court.

Mar 8 • Fr. Aidan

Weekend Update 3/6

Processing with icons (and sometimes with iguanas)

Mar 6 • Fr. Aidan

Since we are now in the season of Great Lent, we thought this would be a great time to focus on 2 specific rooms in our new temple: the Prothesis and…

Mar 4 • Fr. Aidan

I’m still thinking about my ten-year-old self and all the Sundays I counted the knots in the wood on the ceiling of First United Methodist in Anchorage…

Mar 2 • Fr. Aidan

Links

Seraphim O'Keefe

St. John the Forerunner Orthodox Church

Parish of St. Mary and St. Eanswythe

Come See Something Beautiful

Come See Something Beautiful

This substack is about the efforts of St. John Orthodox Church to build a temple in Cedar Park, Texas that will endure for centuries.

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