The text for the Velichanie at Matins for the Vladimir Icon ("It is truly meet...") is unlike the usual texts for Velichania ("We magnify thee..."). Is this...
Awhile back I wrote asking for an explanation behind the differences in the Slavonic texts of the Pentecostarion and Octoechos (the Sunday services found in...
Peter Fekula
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Jul 2, 2003 12:30 am
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Dear Justin, It has its own melody, not related to the magnification sung for feasts of the Lord, major feasts of the Theotokos, and those of the saints. Of...
Isaac E. Lambertsen
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Jul 2, 2003 3:44 am
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Greetings in the love of our Lord Jesus Christ. In making preparations for the service to St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco, I have run into a small...
Dear Father John, Here is the text of the first paramia in full. Perhaps you can identify the chapter and verses from it (though this text is from the LXX,...
Isaac E. Lambertsen
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Jul 3, 2003 12:09 am
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First, let me say "thank you" to Isaac Lambertson for the text for St. John of SF. (What is a "paramia?" Where are these found?) I am encoutnering the same...
You should start by comparing that text to the Septuagint: http://students.cua.edu/16kalvesmaki/lxx/ Generally, the Septuagint closely parallels the Hebrew,...
I need a rather quick response on this one. The young man wants to propose tonight, but is waiting for a response. If an Orthodox marries a non-Orthodox, are...
John Moses
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Jul 3, 2003 12:16 pm
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I think that the question rests on whether they will be married in the Orthodox Church. In my experience the Orthodox person, if marrried outside the Church...
batushka@...
Jul 3, 2003 12:34 pm
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... Of course not. The Church allows mixed marriages, *under certain conditions* - I've never had a problem obtaining permission for them (though in your...
Dear Father John, Firstly, "paramia" is a Greek word, the original meaning of which was "proverb". In Orthodox liturgical terminology it has for centuries...
Isaac E. Lambertsen
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Jul 3, 2003 1:49 pm
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I am grateful to Fr. John Whiteford and to Isaac Lambertson for their explanations of my questions about the 3 readings. In particular, I should have...
Dear Friends -- For just such occasions, the 'Liturgical Calendar and Rubrics' published each year by St Tikhon Monastery includes a section of 'composite...
Dear John, You don't mention what the "non-Orthodox" person's faith IS. I believe that the church does not allow marriages where the spouse is not Christian...
Dear beloved, Blessing in the name of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ. Please let me share with you what I have read today: “Pray in all simplicity....
Dear friends, Does anyone happen to know if there are Menaia (in Church slavonic) on a CD rom, or in any other PC friendly version? Thank you in advance, ...
Yes, I would like to know of anything of this sort too. The page http://www.liturgy.ru/docs/docs_all/graphics.php has most of the liturgical books on line,...
Are there any ROCOR parishs that use modern English in the liturgical services. If so, which translation do they use. The GOA monastery of St. Gregory Palamas...
As has been mentioned in previous posts on this subject, it sometimes occurs that the Old Testament readings appointed on a feast day at Great Vespers do not...
DISCLAIMER: Please review these materials for typos and just plain old mistakes! My spell-checker won't catch some words that are misusages (like bare for...
... Daniel, Wasn't there supposed to be a suppliment or volume 2 of the ODS. Might that not be a better place to include an appendix of the centos? Priest...
The usual order of the Kontakia in a temple of a St. for this date would be: Kontakion of the Resurrection Kontakion of the Temple Glory: Kontakion of the Sts...
... It is not certain that there will actually be a Volume 2. What is more likely now is a revised edition of ODS. In the meantime, a few appendices have been...
... excellent ... today; ... glorified ... Other sources assign the Kontakion for the feast of the 29 June, Tone 2, Automelon, Thou hast taken the firm and...
Personally, I think it would make more sense to work on publishing a Prophetologion, containing all the Old Testament Readings used at Vespers through the...
My name is Cezar Login, and I belong to the Romanian Orthodox Church. I grduated the medicine Faculty, but I am also very interrested in the study of...
... Dear Cezar, The Horologion published by St. Tikhon' Press in South Canaan, Pennsylvania, has all 3 forms of the Odes in English. In XC, Sergius Miller ... ...
Dear Sergius, Thank you for your help. But I am in Romania, and here I cann't find any book that contains this Biblical Odes in all the 3 forms. Can you help...
