Romanos the Melodist is very much on my To Read list! Below is a blog post about him and some of his writing from my dad.

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Romanos the Melodist is very much on my To Read list! Below is a blog post about him and some of his writing from my dad.
I heard there is a one-day only sale on the Messenger Trilogy through CPH! Woo…
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Mary Jackquelyn Moerbe (rhymes with Furby) is an LCMS deaconess, writer, speaker, and homeschooler. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Letters, a combination of history, literature, language, and philosophy, and a BA in music. Her master of arts degree is in theology with deaconess certification from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne. She and her husband, Rev. Ned A. Moerbe, have six children and live in Oklahoma.
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My comment on your father’s post was marked as spam, but in it I noted that I set Kontakion 22 for Good Friday to metric rhyme to the tune EWING (“Jerusalem the Golden”) here: https://pastoralkorn.blogspot.com/2016/03/hymn-oh-pilate-fixed-three-crosses.html
St. Romanos is brilliant. I have two copies of volume I: On the Person of Christ, translated and annotated by Marjorie Carpenter.
Hi Alan, I have been searching high and low for the original copy of volume 1. If you are interested in selling one copy please let me know.
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