Dear friends! I´m going to make a pilgrimage to the Rila monastery, Bulgaria, this week from Great and Holy Thursday till Easter Monday. Does anyone here have...
Dear listers, For the time that you are NOT in church during Holy Week, you can hear a fine mix of Holy Week liturgical music, drawn from a variety of...
Dear all, After almost two years of absence from the professional kliros (though this does not imply I was absent from services and did not take part in...
Dear List: I was wondering if someone can clearify for me if it is proper to ring the bell on Holy Friday during the procession with the Plashenitsa? It seems...
Fr Feodor Kovalchuk's "Abridged Typicon" has the details on pages 26-29. Since it is out of print it might be useful to summarize the appropriate bits: The...
Dear Fathers, Brothers and Sisters, First of all, I pray that our Lord grant you a peaceful and spiritually uplifting Great Week, and then all the joy and...
Simon, Steven
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Apr 22, 2008 4:03 pm
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Dear Fathers, Brothers and Sisters, I hate to bother you again. I feel quite sure that I remembered to attach several items to my earlier note, but my receipt...
Simon, Steven
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Apr 22, 2008 6:10 pm
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Congratulations, Panagioti! It's good to see you back at the kliros. Kali Anastasi! Stephen...
I wish a blessed Easter! Christ is risen. Cezar PS: I also have a request. I need quite urgent the French, German and Spanish text for the service of the...
Alithos Anesti. Easter.... that was at the end of March. This is Pascha, and thankfully a warmer time of the season than at the end of March. Alban ... From:...
We all know that from Pascha onwards, we begin reading from the Acts and the Gospel of John in the liturgies. Why then, on Bright Tuesday, is the passage from...
Thank you very much. But I was interested if this text is to be found in other service book beside Psalter. Cezar ... [Non-text portions of this message have...
... The Gospel at the Liturgy on Bright Tuesday is not the only instance where the readings from the Gospel according John are interrupted and a reading from...
Dear Pavel, Yes it was a wonderful trip from Sophia! I was there for Pascha in 2005! Contact me offlist please. Forgive me psaltisuk <psaltisuk@...>...
Christopher Boyer
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I will be out of the office starting 05/01/2008 and will not return until 05/05/2008. I will respond to your message when I return. ...
On behalf of the Cathedral Dean, Fr. Alexei Kotar and the parishioners, you are cordially invited to the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of...
Well, that was a little longer "break" than I had anticipated! I had mislaid both my Liturgical Calendar and the Order of Divine Services, and only came...
Dear Fathers and brothers in Christ, We are receiving the Bishop in a few weeks and we are doing Small Compline with an Akathist. I've been to Compline every...
... I doubt he will want to do this, but this is a "know your bishop" sort of question. My guess is he will keep it simple, serving Compline as celebrating...
Question, what would a deacon do at the Small Compline? Ierei Kirill ... ____________________________________________________________________________________ ...
... Answer: Nothing. Since there is nothing appointed for a deacon to do during Small Compline (or the Midnight Office), he cannot serve, and it is quite...
In Greece the small compline is solemnly served on the Fridays I-IV of Lent with a portion (stasis) of the Akathist to the Theotokos or all the Akathist...
Thank you Panagiotis for some insides on liturgical customs of the Greek Church. In Russian Church Small Compline is part of the everyday circle of the...
Christ is Risen! For everyone who is interested in Russian Orthodox Church music, is a singer in a church choir, or a reader, the website for the Summer School...
We sincerely hope all members and friends of Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral will join together in commemorating the 75 years that the parish has...
