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http://www.doepa.org/public/sv/gallery.php?ssid=510This parish suffered a devastating fire on the eve of Forgiveness Sunday, 2006. Attached are some pics of their Re-consecration service, the ordination of a Reader and Subdeacon, and Hierarchical Divine Liturgy on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011. Enjoy Dn. Robert
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Here is a video of the Vigil for Reconsecration [ youtube.com] , all two hours and twenty six minutes of it, the responses sung by the Choir of St. Tikhon's Seminary.
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To slightly alter Dostoyevsky: "Such beauty will save the world!"
[Watch the whole video!]
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While the vigil lasted 2 hours and twenty six minutes, the next-day combination of the actual re-dedication, the ordinations, and Hierarchical Divine Liturgy lasted an additional 4 hours and 30 minutes, from 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM. My pastor and I were invited, and attended. A Matushka with whom I am friendly commented that "you have to be from strong peasant stock to stand at services for 4 and 1/2 hours". The banquet afterwards was quite good. I sat at table with my pastor, two OCA priests and their wives, a Moscow Patriarchal priest with his wife and son, and a ROCOR priest and his son (My wife could not attend-she was working). Who ever envisioned a collection of clergy from formerly-squabbling jurisdictions sitting together like that, and getting along? The entertainment at the banquet was, IMHO, exquisite. It was provided by a Russian band from Philadelphia, featuring balalaika music. This was worth attending. Dn. Robert
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P.S.
The bishop, Tikhon (Mallard) is a former Anglican (as is Metropolitan Jonah). The priest, David Cowan, I believe, is also a former Anglican.
Dn Robert
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Actually, in listening to the videos, I think the Reconsecration was before the Divine Liturgy. In re-reading, Fr. Deacon Robert's earlier post, I believe he gave the same order.
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Wonderful! Thank you, Deacon Robert.
Many years,
Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Actually, in listening to the videos, I think the Reconsecration was before the Divine Liturgy. In re-reading, Fr. Deacon Robert's earlier post, I believe he gave the same order. Vigil was held Friday night. Re-consecration was 8:30 Saturday morning. That lasted about 2 hours. Divine Liturgy then followed. Dn. Robert
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