www.byzcath.org Forums Mysteries: The Life of Worship Vespers, Matins & the Divine Liturgy beautiful video of Ukrainian Divine Liturgy

Members of The Lyceum Schola Cantorum sung that Divine Liturgy:

http://thelyceum.org/schola.html

http://thelyceum.org/schola-youtube.html

You might say that we are a school "singing with both lungs":

http://thelyceum.org/spiritual.html

"At the Lyceum the students are exposed to many rites of Mother Church including both the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms, as well as The Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Churches. In addition to the All School Mass, held at least once a week, daily Mass is available to the students during their lunch hour right next door at St. Gregory's Church of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish."

The Liturgy was recorded in September of 2012, but as I recall it may not have actually been on the Feast of the Exaltation which would account for the Trisagion.

You can learn more about Lyceum Schola Cantorum here:

http://www.chantcafe.com/2012/04/beautiful-polyphony-from-lyceum-schola.html

If you happen to be in Washington DC at the March for Life, we will be singing at the 2nd annual memorial Mass for Nellie Gray, the founder of the March for Life:

http://www.thepaulusinstitute.org/News/Second%20Annual%20Nellie%20Gray%20Mass.htm

The Mass will be celebrated by Dom Phillip Anderson Abbot of Our Lady of Clear Creek Monastery in Tulsa, OK.

Should you wish to get a copy of our CD, Ave Verum Corpus, which includes the Trisagion and the Beatitudes, feel free to contact me via The Lyceum website or this email.

Let's not forget that Uzhgorod is right on the Ukraine/Slovakia border, and therefore, well, it could be interesting to hear stories from the Slovak side of Carpatho-Rus' and the Ukrainian side of it, in terms of how well they relate to the UGCC. I think I remember a priest that was ordained and served mainly in the UGCC that also filled in for a nearby Ruthenian parish in the area where I was growing up during weekday morning Divine Liturgies back in the day. So, yeah...interesting for a Ukrainian priest to be holding a Divine Liturgy in a Ruthenian parish, but, who knows? Maybe he was brought up in both Churches, and knew the different chants and different cultures.

Keep in mind that prior to World War 2 Transcarpathia was part of the Hungarian kingdom and then Czechoslovakia. The Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church encompassed the Eparchy of Munkacs(Mucachevo) with seminaries and bishops in Ungvar(Uzhorod) and Presov. While the chant traditions of both regions were nearly identical, there were many melodies known to those trained in Presov which were uncommon, if known at all, by those of Uzhorod. Indeed, many Presov favorites were borrowed from or shared with those of the Galicians(now Ukrainians) even from Lemko sources as well and are not to be found in "Boksaj' s" Prostopenije. By the way, UOCUSA Bishop Daniel of Chicago is part Rusyn as well as UOC Bishop Christopher.OCA Bishops Melchizedek and Michael are Rusyn. I'm sure there are similar Eastern Catholic comparables.