Reader Silouan, you have put your finger right on it; and Jopi Harri has recently pointed out that the St Petersburg chant provides for stichera what is...
Dear All, This may have been posted before, but as part of 2008 being the "Year of International Languages" according to UNESCO, there is now a free (though ...
... Great news for us "adopted Russians" trying to grock the language! This is the biggest gap we have, as we've now a good grammar reference. The "Special...
For this day, the SJKP Liturgical Calendar specifies a six-stichera service to the Great-Martyr Catherine (1F1). The service to Great-Martyr Mercurius is...
[Note: I'm X-posting this since it too may be of interest to people on multiple groups] The best resource for the Church Slavonic language (not grammar) was a...
Memory Eternal! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081205/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_obit_alexy_ii The unworthy hierodeacon, Vasyl [Non-text portions of this message...
In light of the repose of our patriarch, does anyone know how we will be singing the Polychronion this Sunday? Are there any other changes or additions that I...
To the best of my knowledge you would commemorate the Locum Tenens of the Patriarchical See. The unworthy hierodeacon, Vasyl ... From: Molly Grabowski...
... will be ... Here are instructions for our diocese. Dear Fathers, Christ is amongst us! With Bishop Peter’s blessing the formula for the commemoration of...
Dear in Christ, Molly: Could you place the transliterated text on the Ustav list so we may use it? Thanks, Fr. Seraphim Stephens Raphael W. Stephens, III,...
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... From: "Molly Grabowski" <mookitty@...> To: <ustav@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 4:38 PM Subject: [ustav] polychronion change ......
Sorry to ask such a dumb question - Is the new Locum Tenens Very Most Reverend Kyrill of Smolensk and Kalingrad OR Kaliningrad? Are they the same place? Is...
... Sorry, but in English you cannot modify a superlative with an adverb of intensity. The original translator just made a mistake, and apparently not enough...
I realize that "Very Most" is incorrect English, but when you are specifically told by your priest to add the "very" that's what you do. Perhaps if we changed...
... of intensity. ... What kind of monks like all this pomp and circumstance anyway? It's interesting, if you google on the phrase "very most reverend" you...
A newly Orthodox lady in our parish is named Rebekah. Can anyone tell me if she would keep the memory of her patron saint on the Sunday of the Ancestors of...
... The Sunday before Nativity commemorates the physical ancestors of Christ, which reinforces the doctrine of the incarnation: Christ is true man. The second ...
At Vespers, the priest says "Peace to all" and the people don't respond; instead, immediately it's "Wisdom. The Prokeimenon." Every other time the priest says...
... I've wondered that myself. It is also the only place I can think of off-hand where a Prokeimenon isn't followed by a "keimenon", a scriptural text of some...
... respond; ... respond "And ... (more ... This is pure speculation on my part. Perhaps this goes all the way back to the time when the initial greeting of...
... tell me ... Synaxarion at ... just a ... I celebrate my nameday on the Sunday of the Forefathers (December 28 this year), as does another matushka who is...