Bless Father - It seems to me that reverting to practices of the past is not always the Orthodoxiest thing to do. We all know that "It is Truly Meet" was ...
I also was a bit stunned by them, being Greek, citing this passage and viewing it through the lens of "audibility" and not "comprehensability" with all the...
I feel like writing something like an "editor's column" today. But beware that it has a touch of sarcastic wit. <insert sound of Nikita deftly sharpening his...
I'll come out first and say that this issue is worth exploring and discussing, regardless of the jurisdictional origins of this document. The movement towards...
Nikita, I think you make some good points, but in my experience I have found that in terms of actual time, a priest normally intoning the "secret prayers" in...
Maybe we should make some distinctions here. The prayers of the two brief Litanies of the Faithful before the Cherubic Hymn, and the prayer of the Cherubic...
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... [ml] I live with this, since the only parishes within reasonable driving distance are Greek, and am in complete agreement with Fr. Seraphim. Then there's...
Hi Meg, I dunno..."sacredness" and "mystery" (which are often the two reasons I hear for keeping things behind closed doors, silent and obscured from the eyes,...
... Thanks, Meg! I couldn't figure out which Amen everyone was talking about. I used to debate - you know - for fun, on weekends in college. I realize that...
... Meg, I must assume that you mean "Amen" at the epiclesis, since there has "alwaya" been a sung "Amen" at the Words of Institution. There are already a...
If the questions being asked refers to whether the prayers are read silently (in the mind only), in a whisper, or in a "normal voice," does it really matter to...
Proclaiming the prayers out loud is certainly not a distraction for me as a priest. I don't offer the prayers as a private transaction with God, I pray WITH...
Dear Friends -- It's just not right to think of the choir's 'covering' the priest's prayers as a tradition -- it's merely a local and relatively recent custom...
When you say that having the choir sing over the inaudible prayers is a relatively recent practice, do you consider the 6th century to be relatively recent? ...
Hello all, I am currently editing a life of St. Seraphim (Archimandrite Lazarus Moore) and am stumped by a couple of things. It seems like there may be some on...
No, I wouldn't at least say that this was a recent practise. Let see, 14 centuries inbetween where the clergy's prayers were more or less "quiet" would...
Just want to double check. In a temple dedicated to the Theotokos, we will be singing the tropar and kondak of the church all through Triodion for Sunday...
... Surely it is alluring to assume that these verbose transactions of the priest actually concern the people in another sense than that they are commonly...
Just a point of clarification: I certainly did not mean to imply that anybody is not praying the Liturgy - indeed, as I am not a priest, any claim of this...
... Also, during the four pre-lenten Sundays of the Triodion, except during the festal period of the Meeting of the Lord, the troparion and kontakion of a...
For this day, the SJKP Liturgical Calendar specifies the Service from the Triodion (3B1). Or, if the rector so direct, a Vigil-rank service to the New-Martyrs...
... The only sources I had to hand indicated that the order for all Hours was the same. See what happens when you leave this stuff in the hands of amateurs... ...
The kondak of the Resurrection is NOT done this Sunday, either at the Hrs., or during Matins, or in the Liturgy. The Kondak of the triodion is done at the 3rd...
That makes perfect sense. But I was quoting from the SJKP site, which on this point, does seem to be in error. Perhaps Reader Daniel can illumine us. Fr David...
The Jordanville typicon also prescribes the Resurrectional kontakion at Hours and Liturgy. This is, I believe, an error. The Typicon makes no mention of the...
The provisions of the Typicon that govern a vigil-rank commemoration in the Menaion when it falls on the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee are found...
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