tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post4698394409281856023..comments2023-12-02T06:33:50.847-08:00Comments on Notes from a Common-place Book: Travelogue No. 4: In the Syrian ChurchesTerry (John)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07523479530843509695noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-44365071222832509062010-01-06T20:45:45.967-08:002010-01-06T20:45:45.967-08:00Nice to see another American travel to Syria. I fo...Nice to see another American travel to Syria. I found Seidnayya, Simeon, Aleppo, and Damascus to be beautiful places. I'll be sure to read more of your words.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-13813777049646394482008-07-16T07:19:00.000-07:002008-07-16T07:19:00.000-07:00Thanks, Ian. Yes St. Simeon complex is immense. ...Thanks, Ian. Yes St. Simeon complex is immense. What I have described is only the main church. There are ruins of attached monastic buildings all over the place, as well as a completely separate church which is no small thing in its own right.<BR/><BR/>Ranger,<BR/>Well, I'll have to put Borger on my list. I haven't been to that part of the state in, well....let's just say, a very long time.Terry (John)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07523479530843509695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-72610691193811588732008-07-15T20:09:00.000-07:002008-07-15T20:09:00.000-07:00Awsome.Borger is somewhat close to me here in sw k...Awsome.<BR/>Borger is somewhat close to me here in sw ks, maybe 2/3 the way to Amarillo.<BR/>THanks for sharing. If you ever visit borger, i could show you the place where the movie castaway w/ tom hanks begins and ends, tempting eh?Rangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15025551431965418126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-58120874460131898142008-07-15T03:26:00.000-07:002008-07-15T03:26:00.000-07:00My goodness; where to begin? I definitely have to...My goodness; where to begin? I definitely have to go. Thank you for sharing.<BR/><BR/>The St Simeon complex is much larger than I had envisaged; I was imagining a small area with the remains of a column. Wow.<BR/><BR/>The Monastery of St George and the Convent of Our Lady of Sednaya sound amazing; as do all the places you saw. Regarding the 'picking up of scarves' before Communion, that practice somehow crept into our parish during the time of our last priest; we are an Antiochian parish, so I am assuming it does come from that area. [Though the scarves at our parish are in a basket on a chair, not on hooks on columns!]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com