If I have a number of Troparia to sing, what order do they go in? For example: 1. Resurrectional Tropar 2. Troparia of the Saints of the Menologion 3....
I have a question or two surely much more elementary than my sister Margaret's, whose example emboldened me to ask, which some of us were wondering about in...
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Jenner, Malcolm
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Nov 1, 2002 2:20 pm
... The rule that I am familiar with is to cross yourself at each refrain. I am not clear what to do when using the canticle verses. ... St Ignatii...
... Dear Theophan, There is an extended discussion of the sign of the Cross as well as bows and prostrations in a thread which begins w/no. 26 in Nov. 1998 in...
Dear Margaret, There is a hierarchy. The answer depends on to whom/which feast the temple is dedicated, the day, etc... Also, your question seems to be ...
Deacon Father Serge Arlievsky, several years back, published an excellent and very handy little booklet that outlines all of this stuff. I believe he...
... when ... crossing ... generally ... At least in my neighborhood, it seems to be the "Russian" practice to cross at each petition; but I think that this is...
Dear lists, I am looking for an icon of Christ sleeping on a ship, during the storm as His disciples beg him to calm the storm. It was an icon that was sold in...
I was looking over the rubrics for the Apodosis of the Entry of the Theotokos and noticed what seems to be a discrepency between the typikon and the English...
Dear Margaret, A question about your question: What automelon for St George? The feat has several for stichera, "As one valiant among the martyrs" and the...
Dear list, We are having a debate... We are shopping around for an iconostasis, and we are dis-agreeing on the order of the icons... This is my argument... We...
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Fr. John R. Shaw
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Nov 2, 2002 11:15 pm
This afternoon I finished a project that had taken me a little of each day for the past couple of weeks: typing the Liturgy of St. James, in Slavonic, in an...
In a message dated 11/2/02 2:11:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... I had hoped that by reading my Greek Menaion and Typikon I might be able to shed a little...
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Stan & Rose Cholewinski
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Nov 3, 2002 5:28 am
Hi, Your chruch is named after St. Nicholas, so you have it in the right place. That is the correct order. Rose ... ...
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orientecristiano
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Nov 3, 2002 12:00 pm
Dear Nectarios: I'd put little icons of the angels above the corresponding doors. If there is not enough room for the common order of icons, IŽd put them in...
... melody for stichera?? Yes, that's right. There are three categories of special melodies: stichera, troparia, and exapostilaria. Any special melody will ...
Father, bless! An excellent piece of literary detective work! In the synagogue, the more honored reading comes first (Torah before Haphtarah), but it seems...
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Peter Fekula
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Nov 4, 2002 4:11 pm
Margaret: The troparion to St. Sergius that Alexander Ledkovsky has on his site is an arrangement of the Trinity St. Sergius Lavra napev (tune). St. Sergius...
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Fr. John R. Shaw
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Nov 5, 2002 12:14 am
... There is another point I wanted to cover in this regard. In the 1938 Ladomirova version of the Liturgy of St. James, in the middle of a litany, suddenly...
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Peter Fekula
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Nov 5, 2002 6:38 pm
In my experience the icon of the Temple Saint or Feast goes to the right of the Royal Doors (beyond the South door which has Archangel Michael on it), not to...
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Your Name
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Nov 5, 2002 7:48 pm
Christ is in our midst! Is there a canon for the Good Samaritan? or special verses? the unknowing dn demetrius...
This link contains suggestions for abbreviating the Kathismata, and cycling through them in accordance with the cycle of the 8 tones: ...
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Fr. John R. Shaw
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Nov 6, 2002 12:12 am
... While I appreciate the effort some have put into this, nevertheless, I do not think we ought to create a "system" of our own. Some parishes read the...
Of course as the link makes clear, there is no claim that this is *the* way to do it. I think it is a way preferable to simply looking for the shortest psalm...
Dear Margaret, Peter, others, To add to Peter's helpful comment (he beat me to it), the Troparion to St. Sergius in good old, "regular" Tone 4 is also...
Dear List, I was at a monastery this weekend where I experienced something new: both Little Vespers and Great Vespers were served in one evening. Little...
