Many beautiful and happy things ~ Feast day, Mr. Husband's ordination and Time with Family

We got word this week that

Mr. Husband would be ordained as a 

subdeacon on Friday,

our Churches' Feast day!

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St. Elizabeth the New Martyr

Mr. Husband was ordained from being a 

Reader to a Subdeacon! 

It was so deeply beautiful!

Three years ago I found out that 

the then unknown Reader who I married 

a year-plus-1.5 months later,

was willing to email me and our new 

life had it's beginning through emailed letters...

now we are married and he became a subdeacon 

on this wonderful feast day to St. Elizabeth!

It was so wonderful that it happened that Mr. Husband's 

parents were already planning on coming!

After the Feast Day we all went to Princeton to enjoy

a nice afternoon and early evening together.

Mr. Husband and I's first real date day in New Jersey was

at Princeton and it was really special to go back

with Mr. Husband's parents.

The above picture Mr. Husband when we were dating

said would be perfect for knights jousting

and I said would be prefect for a formal beautiful ball. :)

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We then went to the chapel...

We saw the beautiful large chapel at Princeton again;

this chapel was one of the last beautiful things my

Oma ever saw in pictures as we were visiting her

and I told her about the future Mr. Husband and I's

time in New Jersey and showed her the pictures of Princeton

and esp. the chapel. She just loved all that stain glass.

She fell that night, breaking her hip and passed away 

Sunday morning, on the Feast of the Entrance of the Mother of God

into the temple.

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It was so very special to be in this chapel those years later,

with Mr. Husband made a subdeacon that morning

and showing the chapel to his parents, the chapel that Mr. Husband and I looked at together when we were dating and loved so much.

The chapel that my Oma loved and she told me that

everyone wants a little happiness and that she was so glad 

that I was dating the not-yet-Mr. Husband.

We knew that my Oma knew we would marry and it was 

a comfort that I got to see her and show her pictures of 

my then beloved boyfriend.

That Mr. Husband as Mr. boyfriend/Orthoman as I called him 

on my blog went to her funeral with me and my family

was a deeply meaningful act of love 

that he showed to me and 

my family.

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And so here we are, with family... :)... 

I am now, as a woman who is now a Deacon's wife,

which in the Russian tradition makes her a Matuska,

when her husband became a subdeacon, (the level before Deacon) 

she called herself a subtuska, 

and so I am now (this is a joke of course)

Subtuska Elizabeth ;)

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So tomorrow DV is church and our house is being

blessed while my parents-in-law are still here.

My father-in law is making us a beautiful pantry.

More on that DV next week.

We are preparing the house and the food

for the dinner we will make after

the house blessing.

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It's a special time for us and one 

that we are most grateful for!