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...
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...
USUAL DISCLAIMER: Please review these materials for typos and just plain old mistakes! My spell-checker won't catch some words that are misusages (like bare...
... it. ... locate that much. Good news: I did find my transcription! So if you can remind me of your postal address, I could send a xerox of it. In Christ ...
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...
I know this has been posted before -- can someone lead me to the list of psalms read during Matins, when one can't do the whole kathisma? The list that was...
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...
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....
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...
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 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...
Deacon Father Serge Arlievsky, several years back, published an excellent and very handy little booklet that outlines all of this stuff. I believe he...
For the viewing pleasure of my fellow Ustav members, I have uploaded a new file to the Files section. It is a .pdf file containing several preview pages from...
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Does anyone have a troparion to Martyr Priest Socrates (commemorated this Sunday), besides the general troparion to...
There is an unexplained exclamation and "Lord have mercy" right after the last Kontakion and immediately before the Trisagion that I can't find in my service...
Dear List Members, I remember reading a paper that describes why liturgical language should be used rather than the "You who" modern version. I can't find the...
Can anyone point me to an explanation of the significance of vesting the bishop before the Divine Liturgy (I'd like to have something to put in a bulletin or...
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> > > (October, 2002) PSALM Music Press is pleased to announce the > publication of Selected Orthodox Sacred Choral Works composed by the
Very...
I know that I have read somewhere about the role of the deaconess in the
church, and I thought it was here on the ustav list, but I searched the
archives and...
This afternoon I made a rather interesting discovery, or rather I should say that something I had vaugely suspected before, finally became clear to me. The...
Dear beloved, Blessing in the name of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ. Please let me share with you what I have read today: "Before the war begins, seek...
Dear List, My wife wanted to know the type of wood that the True Cross was made. I searched over the internet until it dawned on me to check the service of...
Dear Ustavniki, Does anyone have the service to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in English in a format that can be easily emailed or faxed? Please email to...
Dear in Christ Michael, The Church Abroad does have various Liturgical Variations not used in the other half of the Russian Church, both very old and new, some...
