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    By death He trampled death
    Lara Neri
    • Apr 19, 2019
    • 6 min

    By death He trampled death

    I love Easter so much that it is hard to write about it. I cry thinking about it. It is the most full of true joy, the most expressive of...
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    Flowery Sunday in Constantinople
    Lara Neri
    • Apr 11, 2019
    • 5 min

    Flowery Sunday in Constantinople

    Flowery (Palm) Sunday began to be celebrated in Constantinople by the fifth century - a couple centuries after it began in Jerusalem and...
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    Onward & Upward
    Lara Neri
    • Apr 4, 2019
    • 4 min

    Onward & Upward

    I remember listening in amazement in high school chapel at my Christian school as various guest speakers told of dramatic conversions...
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    saying yes to losing control
    Lara Neri
    • Mar 21, 2019
    • 4 min

    saying yes to losing control

    When I was younger I did not want the mess, the noise, the chaos, or the financial burden of children. And I was under the impression...
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    Superheroes & the Triumph of Orthodoxy
    Lara Neri
    • Mar 19, 2019
    • 3 min

    Superheroes & the Triumph of Orthodoxy

    The first time I remember seeing an icon was in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. I was taking a class in Israel my sophomore year...
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    Will "Beauty save the world"?
    Lara Neri
    • Feb 28, 2019
    • 3 min

    Will "Beauty save the world"?

    I have often heard or seen Dostoevsky quoted, “Beauty will save the world.” It is attributed to him as if it were his personal...
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    Approaching Great Lent: all are responsible for all
    Lara Neri
    • Feb 21, 2019
    • 4 min

    Approaching Great Lent: all are responsible for all

    Several years ago, after very emotional struggles with infertility and two heartbreaking miscarriages, we began our first adoption. It...
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    St. Valentine: active love is labor and fortitude
    Lara Neri
    • Feb 14, 2019
    • 3 min

    St. Valentine: active love is labor and fortitude

    In our family, we have four very intense children, two adopted with trauma histories, one with secondary trauma, one with a missing...
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    St. Scholastica & the loving fatherhood of God
    Lara Neri
    • Feb 7, 2019
    • 3 min

    St. Scholastica & the loving fatherhood of God

    I have a hard time relating to the saints who knew they were going to be nuns from the time they were six - those saints who wanted to do...
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    Suffering & Softening
    Lara Neri
    • Feb 1, 2019
    • 2 min

    Suffering & Softening

    The feast of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple (2 February) is one of the Twelve Major Feast Days in the Eastern Church, also...
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    The Byzantine Church as Microcosm
    Lara Neri
    • Jan 25, 2019
    • 3 min

    The Byzantine Church as Microcosm

    The interior of a Byzantine Church should be a three dimensional icon; the Church is a model of the universe, a vision of the redeemed, a...
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    How is iconography different from other religious art?
    Lara Neri
    • Jan 17, 2019
    • 4 min

    How is iconography different from other religious art?

    One Sunday after liturgy, I overheard a visitor to our church commenting on the iconography, “Why do the figures look so strange? They...
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    art camps: pursuing Beauty together
    Lara Neri
    • Jul 26, 2016
    • 2 min

    art camps: pursuing Beauty together

    Two intensive weeks of art camps have come to an end, and I am thankful for the experience. I kept enrollment to four students per camp...
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    iconography: window to the Divine
    Lara Neri
    • Jul 6, 2016
    • 2 min

    iconography: window to the Divine

    I have just returned from a beautiful, powerful, intense experience where art and prayer were indistinguishable. I have come away with a...
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    the transformative power of story
    Lara Neri
    • May 9, 2016
    • 1 min

    the transformative power of story

    Various influences were dropped into my path that lead me into the Catholic Church, one of the most prominent being the work of Fyodor...
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    the feast of the Ascension
    Lara Neri
    • May 6, 2016
    • 2 min

    the feast of the Ascension

    I love this quiet, mid-week feast day celebrating Christ's rising up to Heaven in His resurrected body. He leaves us with the commission...
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    creating a sacred space in the home
    Lara Neri
    • Apr 26, 2016
    • 2 min

    creating a sacred space in the home

    When I was living in St. Petersburg, I rented a small, airy room in a sunny, high-ceilinged apartment on the corner of Dostoevsky Street...
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    Christ is risen! Indeed He is risen!
    Lara Neri
    • Apr 3, 2016
    • 1 min

    Christ is risen! Indeed He is risen!

    Pascha is my favorite time of the year! I love the joy of this season, the hope of rebirth and resurrection! We celebrate this day with...
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    Lara Neri

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