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I received a little booklet published by the Byzantine Seminary Press with the Rosary prayers in it, along with prayers for each of the 15 Mysteries. Except that the entire Apostle's Creed is not included! The Our Father I can get from the old pew book, but does anyone have a link to, or can anyone post, the text of the Apostles' Creed in Slavonic?

Do you mean Church Slavonic?
I am Orthodox so please explain what is the Apostle's Creed? Are you Eastern Rite and if so why would you want a Creed that is not part of your rite?

Oops, I did mean Church Slavonic. I am Eastern....and it never occurred to me that the Apostles' Creed is not a part of Eastern tradition. So I have learned something today, at any rate!

sieglinde:

Glory be to Jesus Christ!! Glory to Him forever and ever!!

It's my understanding that the Byzantine and Oriental Orthodox use only the Nicene Creed since the Council made this one the common one for all the Churches. The Latin Church retains it as a matter of its own history and use. So an Eastern Catholic would probably use the Nicene Creed exclusively.

My guess.

BOB

The only likely source for the Apostles' Creed in Church-Slavonic would be some publication from the Glagolitic folks, presumably in Dalmatia. I wish you luck. I've been trying to obtain a Glagolitic Missal for many years, with no success.

Fr. Serge

Then I shall redouble my efforts to commit the Nicene Creed to memory in Church Slavonic, and cease to worry about it.
thank you all!

Then Cardinal Ratzinger wrote about this in his book Introduction to Christianity. The Apostles' Creed was thought by many in the West to be very old until discussion with the East, who had never used it and as often as not never heard of it, made it clear that the AC was much younger than earlier thought. It has no history in the East aside from possible inroads of Latinization and so I wouldn't expect one to be readily at hand.

So if you wish to pray the rosary in Slavonic, why not simply use the Nicene Creed? What would stop you?

BOB

I haven't been making any effort to find one, but have always been amazed at how LITTLE is written about it (at least in English!) that I can find online. Nowadays you can google any number of oddities, curiosities, facts of obscurity, and various and sundry other bits of "ecclsiastica" but still, looking for Glagolitc missal info and usage avails little.

There has to be some group somewhere that is enthusiastic about it and trying to keep it alive... One would think.

I'd love to attend one just once.

The Apostle's Creed was used very early as a western baptismal creed, and while it certainly predates the Nicene Creed, it was not used in the East universally, and not now liturgically, so it is no wonder that few Orthodox know of it.

That is not proof, however, that it is newer than the Nicene Creed.

Far from it.

By the way, who speaks Slavonic now anyway? It's a deader language than Latin.

*raises hand*

I communicate with the Russian nuns in the local chapel in a bizarre mix of Church-Slavonic and Russian.

Incidentally, Latin is not a dead language.

Nothing at all! Which is what I plan to do, when I pray it alone. I have this idea that it would be quite beautiful to sing (chant?) the prayers of the Rosary, as they are written in the book I have, in Church Slavonic.