Dear List, Nikita may be the one to provide an answer, but I suspect some others have a bit of knowledge in this area as well. As I have understood it from...
At weekday liturgies, sometimes there are only a few of us in attendance, and sometimes they're people unable or disinclined to sing. So there are times when I...
I would suggest, while facing the Holy Doors, step to your left and then you could comfortablly turn and walk to the middle of the nave. The unworthy...
Gabriel, Comparing the Byzantine prosomoia and Slavic Podobny is really a matter of apples and oranges at this point. You mentioned the existance of a more...
... Probably the earliest surviving Slavic source for "O House of Ephrata" is Tipografskij ustav, a ms. dated around 1100, the melody in which has been...
... It seems likely that either the drop took place in a quite distant past, or that these melodies were never properly established. The few kondakarian mss....
Thank you to everyone who replied. Sticking to the subject of the Small Znamenny melodies for stichera and its relationship to the current "generic" melodies...
How about asking the priest if he can bless you long distance and you just go to the middle of the nave? I know what you mean... the middle of our nave at our...
The book by Grigor'ev, published in Riga, is the best thing on both the Lesser Znamenny samoglasen melodies for stichera and the Znamenny podobny for stichera....
When will we ever stop writing "Slavic" when what we mean is "Great- Russian"? It depends on which Slavs you mean. To find such things in the chant systems of...
... sing. ... cantor stand. ... blessing to ... So ... and he ... the ... of the ... open ... unseen Dear Reader, There are many place where the Epistle is...
Having been in your church once, you don't seem to have a verrrrry long nave, silouan!. I would suggest just backing up two steps there, and bob's your uncle, ...
... Ya, if nothing's in the way... It's the about-face, walk away from the open doors, about-face again, that seemed odd. I appreciate the many good...
I do not know if you are familiar with the Humphrey Bogart movie, 'The Caine Mutiny'. After Lt. Commander Queeg takes command of the Destroyer Minesweeper USS...
For this day, the SJKP Liturgical Calendar specifies a double service to Apostle Bartholomew and Apostle Titus (1B). The outline given is for a temple...
Although there are some who would, I doubt that most priests would go through this extreme. Often a priest might not know the answer himself and would ask the...
In any case, if your priest has the habit of rolling a couple of steel balls in his hand, hide all the yellow dye on the property. Stephen ... go ... himself ...
I think that memo is sitting in the stack of Orthodox mail with the decoder rings we were promised ten years ago.... sdn. steven paul ... From: frjsilver To:...
Dear Friends -- While I'm completely unqualified to respond to Gabriel Sanchez's concerns, I'd add one of my own. A few days ago, a priest asked me about a...
What is the proper time of beginning and ending a fasting day? from midnight to midnight or sunset to sunset? The prohibition of kneeling or prostration (if I...
... wrote: Back in the archives of this List is a very complete answer concerning the fasting day by the Reader Daniel Olson, viz., from the time of waking to...
... A few days ago, a priest asked me about a Russian musical setting for _sv&te tikhiy_ which referenced a _podobn61y_ or _samoglasn61y_ melody titled _den'...
Carol and all, I take it that this is the troparion _Den' prished_. It illustrates a phenomenon that has yet to be investigated in any systematic. What we have...
... Carol and all, I take it that this is the troparion _Den' prished_. <snip> cas: Yes, exactly. The Slavonic Horologion I am now looking at does not...
My thanks to Carol and Stephen for their helpful insights. Monk James (who's never heard 'The Day Is Past' sung anyplace ever -- and maybe should get out...
... in the English Horologion published by Monk Laurence at Jordanville, the designations "1st Choir", "2nd Choir" are assigned to this section of hymns: "The...
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