Please remember the handmaiden of God, Elizabeth Riggs, in your prayers. Elizabeth, who began the Choir Cues, has a number of health issues, chiefest of which...
Dear members, I'm an owner of three Yahoo Groups and co-moderator of a couple more. In the past week every one of these groups has been hit multiple times from...
Dear Group, We are preparing our choir books for the Holy Week. One question is not yet resolved: On Thursday an d Friday in the Holy Week do we - for exemple...
Nicolas Schidlovsky supplied our little choir with a 'demi-Lenten' melody for the ektenias, which works very well. For Lord, have mercy, the choir starts ...
Elder Gabriel of Pskov and Kazan (+1915) mentioned that the "Supplicatory Canon to the Mother of God, Distressed by Many Temptations" should be read by those...
Please remember the handmaiden of God, Elizabeth Riggs, in your prayers. Elizabeth, who began the Choir Cues, has a number of health issues, chiefest of which...
This question arises because (new-rite)Russians, unlike Greeks and Old Believers, omit the irmosy when reading devotional canons. So the Canon here is...
Sorry, the way I did this makes it look as though the French & English items were two different articles. They are one and the same, by Arranz but based...
Dear Srtephen, Actually, the Greeks do also. Note the devotional canons in the Great Horologion. The text in question is the first troparion of the 1st Ode. ...
Dear Antonio, The writings of the Archdeacon Paul of Aleppo, who traveled w/his father, the Patriarch of Antioch, in Russia at the time of the Nikonian...
Christ is risen! Truly risen! Dear Friends -- Please note that my earlier remarks had to do with parish usage, not monastic, and it would be a rare parish...
Father, The Typika provided the framework for the services. It certainly appears that the Vigil was so served. I repeat, the Archdeacon Paul's account...
Dear Friends -- Please forgive me if I appear obtuse in this, but how can it be known that 'Old Believer parishes served the Vigil'? Were the Old Rite as...
Dear friends! A friend of mine asked about the calendar used by the Church of Bulgaria. He is planning a trip to Bulgaria and wants to know if he can celebrate...
The Church of Bulgaria is on the New Calendar. However their parishes & monasteries outside of Bulgaria now have a blessing to use the Old Calendar if they...
Dear All, I'm fairly sure that the answers to these questions are not the most important issues facing Orthodoxy in America. I do, however, think that there...
Quite right. Although the Sabbaite Typikon spread gradually and slowly in Muscovy during the 15th century, it was universally in use by the 17th. The Old Rite...
... **Well, not in my parish, they don't. Beyond that I can't generalize. We follow a booklet that has the heirmoi, in Greek and in English, and we sing them,...
And, just to add to he confusion, some feasts in the Bulgarian Church's calendar are still reckoned the old way - St George is one example. In Christ, Fr Ivan ...
Dear Ustav members, When does the Priest cense at a Panikhidha that is served at the grave of the reposed? does he cense the whole time or just at specific...
A small point, but it should be noted that Old Believers in Moscow (Rogozhsky cathedral, personal experience) and Kostroma (so I am told), do not read the...
Please remember the handmaiden of God, Elizabeth Riggs, in your prayers. Elizabeth, who began the Choir Cues, has a number of health issues, chiefest of which...
February 16, 2008 Please note that, with the blessing of his Eminence, Metropolitan Laurus, the 17th session of the Summer School of Liturgical Music at Holy...
... Dear Hegumen Gregory, While I am in full agreement with you regarding the point you make about not idealizing any particular practice, even the Old Rite,...
Dear Nikita, Thank you for you detailed remarks. I am happy to be enlightened as to the practice with the lessons, I have always had to be serving somewhere...
We will be serving daily services during Thomas week as one of own will be ordained to the diaconate on Thomas Sunday. A question has arisen as to whether we...
