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tmatt's avatar

Here is some helpful info from one of the best Catholic news and commentary websites out there -- The Pillar. Again, there is a bit of a misunderstanding here about how the word "Greek" is used in the Middle East, but lots of fine background:

https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/what-a-church-attack-means-for-syrias?utm_medium=email

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JonF311's avatar

At my Antiochian church here in St Pete we held a memorial for these martyrs yesterday, and a description of the event occupied a large portion of the homily.

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Michael Stefan's avatar

The Prokeimenon is in the 7th tone: Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His Saints.

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tmatt's avatar

Would that go with the feast of all saints of Antioch?

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tmatt's avatar

In the Facebook video? It was mislabeled?

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Michael Stefan's avatar

it was just something I thought was fitting considering they were martyred.

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