Quoted from the latest issue of The Word [Sept 1997, p. 33], the publication of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese: The Holy Synod of Antioch (patriarchate) made several liturgical decisions [at their meeting, May 26-7, 1997]:

Dr. Pamela Taylor, N.D., a Philoptohos member of St. George Greek Orthodox Church in Rock Island, Illinois, has commitments from three of the top naturopathic physicians in the United States to travel to the Monasterio Ortodoxo Lavra Mambre in January of 1998.

In view of the Green Mountains of Vermont and enclosed within the liturgical richness of Matins and Vespers at New Skete Monastery, I have spent a number of weeks attempting to capture the likeness of Theotokos with the use of egg, water, pigment, and wood.

St. Brigit was the abbess of a large double monastery in Kildare, Ireland. She lived during the middle fifth to the early sixth centuries. Like many saints from the early Middle Ages, there is a large body of popular writing regarding her life. Many amazing anecdotal stories have been ascribed to her. We can remain confident, however, that whatever the whole story may be about her life, she must have been quite a remarkable woman.