Vertigo for the Lost
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It was a little disorienting to listen to “Vertigo” by U2, with its allusions to Christ’s Temptation in the Desert, while I searched the Way Back Machine for lost documents from our parish website. It caused a minor context shear. Then, quite randomly, iTunes pulls up some Divine Liturgy settings by Tchaikovsky. Hey, look at me! I’m a whirling dervish. I almost fell out of my chair.
The most recent archiving of St. Athanasius’ website was back in January, and it looks like it didn’t change very much in the intervening time. Which is to say that most of the content I was looking for was archived.
Good information that I want to be able to find again:
- Orthodox Resources: Links to some good documents, like the one by Albert Rossi on the Jesus Prayer, and the one on Tradition by Bishop Maximos of Pittsburgh (Greek archdiocese).
- Who is Saint Athanasius?: a set of links to various resources on the Alexandrian bishop best known for vigorously opposing Arianism and ensuring the survival of Nicene Christianity.
- Music files: PDFs and midi files of some cool pieces we used to do in the choir.
As of this writing, the pictures of the ordinations of the Priest David Rucker are still at AthanasiusOCA.org, though one should probably take nothing on that site to be permanent until the current redesign is finished. Unfortunately, the glossary of musical and liturgical terms I compiled was not archived by the Way Back Machine. I have an old backup of the parish’s website; I’ll see if I can find it and post it.