Sorry I missed the "Little" in the Vespers on page 1. I didn't realize that this was a vigil ranked feast. KD ... document (the beginning of Great Vespers) it...
... Dear Carol and list, It is not surprising that there is reference in the service to Emperor Nicholas I. He was personally responsible for the Monastery of...
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... JRS: It's interesting that the same alternatives exist with the Prophet Elias (July 20/Aug. 2). The Slavonic Typicon first gives rubrics for a weekday rank...
... JRS: A good deal depends on when the 9th Hour is done (if at all). In "New Rite" practice, there has been a tendency, in parish churches, to drop the 9th...
Dear All, Made three attempts to upload my English rendering of Bortnyansky's Concerto No 29, "I will praise the name of my God" to Typikon files. Got the...
Please continue to keep Elizabeth Riggs, founder of the Choir Cues, in your prayers. Various health problems continue to plague her. For this day, the...
Dear list memebres, Does anyone know where from I cand find and buy a reprint of the following volumes: 1. Goar's Euchologion 2. Dmitrievskii - Opisanie (3...
A friend not on this list asked me to aske this question, and I have sometimes wondered about the practice myself. He said (I suppose this was a large church...
Dear Chtets James and All, You brought back a memory. Many years ago at Christ the Saviour Church, Harrisburg Metropolitan Theodosius and then Bishop Herman...
Dear All, If memory serves correctly, several priests proffered crosses after the Canonisation of the new martyrs and others in Mosocow in 2000. I also seem to...
... JRS: There can be two crosses if there are two priests, or bishops. But I've never heard of one priest holding a cross in each hand. Some priests simply...
I have been meaning to add something on this for a while and have finally got round to it. I am most familiar with the Bright Week custom of closing the holy...
... Dear Father Gregory, I would suggest that these two versions of the Midnight Office are from two different, but coexisting, Typika. The three antiphon is ...
... JRS: The reason we have the services called "First Hour", "Third Hour" and so on, is that a need was felt to sanctify the whole day. In early times the...
Dear Friends -- In my training as a young monk, and in my experience since, I've always known the Ninth Hour to be read in connection with -- and immediately...
Yes, Father. All that is true; BUT if one checks the western rubrics, one discovers that the Mass was celebrated after the 3rd, 6th, or even the 9th Hr....
I have now set up the first version of a website for the publication of my arrangements of Russian chant to English texts. What is there now is a small part...
... JRS: Correct: the rule being that the more fstive the day, the earlier the Liturgy (Mass) was to be celebrated: On feast days, after Tierce (or Terce,...
Monday was the feast of the Transfiguration on the new calendar. One of our traditions is to bless fruits on this day. What are the origin of this practice and...
... Here are some notes I collected last year, condensed from a few different blogs and websites: In a text from the 7th century ("The Laws of the Kingdom" by...
Thank you. You will see some of your response on my web site later today. There will be only one photograph associated with this. I know that some people...
... Sure, just don't credit me as the writer; I just googled and pasted those notes, about this time last year. I think the first paragraph is from Fr Joseph...
Does anyone know of an online source for the typical Russian Chant music used for a Moleben? -Fr. John Whiteford [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Dear Friends -- Just below, I'm including the link to the 6 August page of Fr Eugene Tarris's translations of Bulgakov. Just scroll down to The Blessing of...
Dear Fr John and Dcn Sergius, One of the oldest surviving Horologia is indeed from Mar Saba, Sin.Gr. 863 (Now at Mt Sinai) of the 9th century: the order of...
What a useful link, thank you. In my experience both prayers are usually said, one after the other. As somebody else said, even where grapes do not grow they...
