Dear friends in Christ, could someone please share the troparion and kondakion for this coming weekend, for the Ikon of the Mother of God "Joy of all who...
... the ... is ... Dear Zhenia, Meg, and everyone who wrote privately, Thank you! Virtually ALL the solutions called for holding the first "Lord" in "Lord,...
Dear Brothers and Sisters I have a question (I don't know if this has been answered): when a priest, for example, from the Moscow Patriarchate, goes to a...
I don't know of any authority of the subject, but once a month a Serbian priest visits our OCA church to serve the liturgy in Slavonic. He always commemorates...
Dear Roberto, Regardless of what Church/jurisdiction or Diocese a Priest belongs to the only Hierarch liturgically commemorated; that is, where the Hierarch is...
... JRS: There have been other exceptions. For instance, Archbishop Seraphim of Chicago was considered the head of the Brotherhood of St. Job of Pochaev. When...
... usually ... tradition ... Archbishop/Bishop ... mentioned. Other ... sick, etc. ... JRS: There have been other exceptions. For instance, Archbishop...
Dear all, Besides the hitherto composed services to Western Saints, the services to Sts. Ninian and Columban are now ready. (N.B. In Church Greek!!!) Those who...
How do you get more people to join the choir? We have a fairly musical parish, judging by the way they come together for the Creed and the Lord's Prayer, but...
Sounds like you are doing a lot already to allow people to join. I guess, for me, it has become important to foster a great atmosphere in the choir. I want...
In all my centuries as an Orthodox Christian, only once do I recall a visiting priest or deacon commemorating his own hierarch and in this one service, the...
Vladyka Peter, Bishop Cleveland of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad served at the Stavropigial Serbian Monastery in Indiana, he commemorated only the Holy...
Dear friends in Christ, Please suspend all emails beginning on Saturday, November 5 and resume on Wednesday, November 16, 2005. Thank you ! Father Basil Grisel...
The question is excellent, but I have no answers. Goodness knows, I tried to get more people to sing when I was leading a choir. It seemed like nobody in the...
I think the one issue that dogged me the whole time I tried to lead the choir in my former parish was how to bring so-so singers up to speed. All it takes is...
... I am always astounded and deeply disappointed to hear this kind of commentary. For centuries, saints and sinners, east and west, sang and prayed and made a...
We have the same problem at my parish. Our priest insists that the altar servers sing and I'm trying to encourage it also. We have had Sunday Liturgies in...
Reader Michael, No, you did not throw away ten years for nothing. As you said in an earlier post, people come and go. Maybe some of those who left took with...
... I don't hear them talking about professionalism. I hear them talking about the choir doing its job in leading the singing (or shirking that job, as the...
... You clearly have not spent as much time as I have in what's left of old Ruthenian parishes where few, if any, can read music!!....and yes there is not one...
Glory to God for all things! Michael Malloy wrote: {For ten years, or more, I desterately tried to help people who flatly {refused to be helped. { {As a...
... I do. I hear it's echoes throughout the Unia and Orthodoxy. I spent last Sunday in an Orthodox parish where a four year old stood by the choir and...
lory to God for all things! Mary Lanser wrote: {Wasted ten years!!...damn sure did!!...what foolishness. [ML] Hey, lady, you wanna power down a bit?! You...
Glory to God for all things! Michael Malloy wrote: {Subject: [ustav] Re: How do you get more people singing? { {The question is excellent, but I have no...
... With a name like Lark?...You must be joking. If I yell at you, you'll open your mouth and let out a noise of such beauty I will fall down dead in my ...
