Please remember in your prayers the handmaid of God, Elizabeth Riggs, who established the Choir Cues. Health problems continue to plague her. For this day,...
Sorry to ask a very particular question but I really am wanting to find a particular piece of music that I head at Butovo and a week before in Pochaev. Maybe...
Dear Reader Philosoph and All, Wish I had been at Butovo and Pochaev when you were. What I try to do wherever I am is get into conversations with people...
Reader Philosoph: This question is a little vague!! Is the piece you're thinking of from the liturgy at Butovo something that was sung antiphonally (that is,...
We have obtained a number of DVD sets of the entire five and 3/4+ hour Unification Service at Christ the Savior Cathedral on May 17. The sets contain *5* DVD's...
Dear All Once more, please forgive my ignorance! In reading about the history of the relationship between the ROCOR and the MP, I've come quite regularly...
Of all the bishops in ROCOR only the Metropolitan has a cross atop his mitre, whereas all episcopal mitres in the MP have crosses. I have been told the former...
Dear Antonio, I am sure you may get a more informed response from one of our learned brothers, but I can tell you from my experience, being in a parish that...
"Someone told me that daily divine liturgies and the chanting of the entire cycle of daily offices continue in MP parishes to an extent not to be found in...
This one's no longer true! By Sunday, May 20, all our ROCOR Bishops present at Dormition Cathedral in Moscow, except for Archbishop Kyrill, were sporting...
During my voyages to Russia, I have seen many slight differences between what I saw in the MP and what I have been used to in the ROCOR. But later I discovered...
Please remember in your prayers the handmaid of God Elizabeth Riggs, who established the Choir Cues. She continues to suffer from a number of health problems....
Some of these differences in ROCOR usage, I have been told, depend on what part of Russia the emigrees came from. Many of the early ROCOR bishops were from...
This may be Greek practice of placing crosses on the bishops mitre but I think it's older custom than not having one. I also saw only the Patriarch with his...
Just after I send this, I remembered one more difference between the ROCOR and the MP: The colour of the liturgical vestment during Easter period. In the ...
In the OCA the color is white with a few exceptions where red is used. I think only 2 or 3 parishes of the many with paschal pictures on the OCA website are...
On Mt. Pathos the Greek priests wear red for Pascha. I was told this by a Greek priest in the US a few years ago. Recently I was talking to a priest about the...
... by ... Dear Rd. Michael, Apparently not everywhere on Mt. Athos. I'm looking at paschal pictures from Xeropotamou; everyone is in white for the paschal...
On Mt Athos they wear what ever is thier best vestments for Pascha. The Greeks are not into a certain color for feasts it's either light or dark. I have heard...
I wonder how many little liturgical things there are that started from something not planned or for other reasons. Sometimes I have thought that when the...
I think that you are right. Back in my former life I used to go to Transfiguration Melkite Catholic Church occasionally and the late Fr. Armand at this point...
Dear Dn. Sergius, I meant Mt. Pathmos, where St. John the Theologian died. I was surprised when Archimandrite Constantine told me this. I think it was just...
Actually, it appears to have begun as a rubric, later intoned by the deacon, & now often sung by the choir. DnS. ... from ... thought that ... in the ... ...
In the Antiochian church the priest or deacon intones 'dynamis' and the choir repeats it and with "much power" sing Holy God again. Rdr Timothy Tadros ... the ...
This may be right; but in old manuscripts you can find a fuller set of diaconal instructions to the kliros: before the first repetition of the words, he...
What you said makes sense. A good deacon knows the services and he directs very well. I have seen several hierarchal Liturgies go very well because the...
Do the texts used in the Moscow Patriarchate and the text used in ROCOR have a common origin, or were they composed more or less separately. -Fr. John...
Comparing the rest of the texts of the feast with the English version published by SJOKP about 90 per cent appears to be the same. The Slavonic seems to have...
