Volume 7 Number 3 - Tuesday, January 18th, 2005

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Published by the Orthodox Church in America, January 2005

OCA Chaplain celebrates Great Blessing of Water at Baghdad's Camp Victory

Baghdad, Iraq
January 7, 2005

On Friday, January 7, 2005, the Post Feast of Theophany commemorating the baptism of Our Lord, Jesus Christ in the Jordan, the Very Rev. Jerome Cwiklinski, CDR, CHC, USN, a US Navy chaplain, celebrated the Great Blessing of Water at Camp Victory in Baghdad.  The Tigris River feeds the artificial lake that surrounds the palace.

Father Cwiklinski blesses soldiers from Ukraine, who joined Orthodox soldiers from the US, the Republic of Georgia, Macedonia, and Romania for Theophany services.  Holding the festal icon is the Reader Luke Bell, son of the Very Rev. Anthony Bell, a priest of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.

Soldiers from the Republic of Georgia are blessed with holy water.

 
 

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