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Alice, Christ is Risen! I think that you are going through what my friend calls 'Holy Week withdrawal'!!! LOL! Yes, I think I am. I am still rejoicing and basking in the awesome and profound beauty of the Eastern Pascha as well as in its love by listening to my two favorite cd's of the Pascha service in the car: that of 'Eikona' and that of St. Vladimir's Seminary...and they are both completely in English! I have only heard a little bit of Eikona, but I liked what I heard. One of my favorite CD�s of hymns from Holy Week in English is one put out by liturgica that is a recording of Fr. Apostolos Hill. Does your church have the psito arni at two in the morning? At two in the morning, we serve a special traditional soup called 'mayeritsa' in the Church hall (along w/cheese, olives, easter eggs, and the sweet Easter bread we call 'tsoureki') This soup is supposed to make the transition of light fasting foods to heavy lamb the next day more easy. We just have what we call the paschal meal which does start around 2 a.m. after the liturgy is over. We also have a true mish-mash of different traditions because there is no one dominant group in the church. We dyed the red eggs for our church this year and everybody gets one after liturgy and most people break them together. Pretty much everybody has adopted bringing a basket and we do have a blessing of the baskets. Everybody brings what they like, but there is usually lots of sausage, lamb and cheese. My wife baked Tsoureki with our kid�s Nouna, but I didn�t see anyone else with it this year. We were also in a borrowed space this year with no kitchen facilities at all and limited seating, so people had to bring what they wanted to eat already made and it helped if it was just picnicky type stuff you could eat with your hands. Andrew
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XB!
There are some great pictures of Holy Week posted on the ACROD website from the Cathedral in Johnstown. It appears that they also celebrate matins at night and the liturgy in the morning on Pascha.
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Originally posted by John K:
XB!
There are some great pictures of Holy Week posted on the ACROD website from the Cathedral in Johnstown. It appears that they also celebrate matins at night and the liturgy in the morning on Pascha.
John K Christ is risen! I'm curious about one thing (not criticizing, just asking). I noticed that at the end of the Paschal Liturgy they annointed everyone. Since there's no blessing of oil during the Paschal cycle, what mirovanije did they use? Priest Thomas
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Bless, Father Thomas! Christ is Risen! Yes, my parish of St Nicholas also "splits" the services! I'm so happy to learn what we do isn't a Latinization!  You've made my Bright Week all that more, well, "brighter!" Alex
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Dear Rilian,
Christ is Risen!
Yes, could you explain how that whole tradition with taking down the Corpus from the Cross on Great Friday works?
I've never seen it and there's nothing like learning about it directly from someone who has participated in it!!
Take your time - I'm all ears and eyes!
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Fr. Thomas,
Mironvanje among us in Pittsburgh and Johnstown jurisdictions is done after all the Great Feasts but this does not imply the oil (or bread) was blessed at Litija as most parishes in either juriscdiciton don't have Vigil. The priest just uses oil previously blessed, or perhaps blessed before the Liturgy with the bread.
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Fr. Thomas,
My parish splits Paschal Matins and Divine Liturgy as well. It seems this is a common custom among many Rusyns. Midnight Office before Paschal Matins, on the otherhand, does not seem like that common of practice.
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Originally posted by Orthodox Catholic:
Dear Rilian,
Christ is Risen!
Yes, could you explain how that whole tradition with taking down the Corpus from the Cross on Great Friday works?
I've never seen it and there's nothing like learning about it directly from someone who has participated in it!!
Take your time - I'm all ears and eyes!
Alex Christ is risen! We have a large wooden cross on a pedestal that I think would normally be placed in front of the solea, but we don�t have a permanent space so we put it just outside the iconostasis in front of the royal doors. The corpus is a large icon of Christ in the shape of his body crucified, i.e. like a western corpus but two dimensional and in traditional Byzantine style. During the twelve passion gospels in anticipation of Holy Friday the corpus is nailed to the cross by our priest. It is very near the end of the service. After the twelve passion gospels service everyone comes up in a line to venerate the cross and corpus. Three prostrations are done in succession and then we kiss the feet of the crucified Christ. During burial vespers in our church the Apokathelosis takes place as part of the gospel reading. When our priest gets to the part about the body being released by Pilate, I (but in the past our sub-deacon before he moved) removes the nails from the body and takes the body down from the cross. The body is then placed in a shroud and closed. I used safety pins specifically to keep the shroud in place. I waited until the gospel reading was over and Father came and took the body in the shroud and placed it in the altar, although I believe in the past it was put directly in the tomb. That is pretty much how it worked. Andrew
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Dear Andrew,
What an amazing tradition!
"We bow before Your Cross, O Master, and we glorify Your Resurrection!!"
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Christ is Risen! This was forwarded to me by a priest friend of mine that is serving the Orthodox Parish in Caen, France. The parish is under the Russian Excharchate of Western Europe (Ecumenical Patriarchate). In the Risen Christ, Father Anthony+ We, here in the parish of Caen, had a particularly memorable occasion in the Celebrations of Great and Holy Week and the Paschal Feast. About 400 faithful from all traditions (Greeks, Georgians, Romanians, Russians, Ukrainians, French, Arabs, Ethiopians, American(s) and others) gathered on the hillside outside of Caen where the church is located for the beautiful Services of the Paschal Feast. The shouts of 'Christ is Risen' were heard in all the languages represented. And the sonorous pealing of the bells, which have not rung out in total since WWII, accentuated the joy of the celebration. Two were stolen in the days after the Allied bombing of Caen in 1944, and were miraculously recovered and returned to the parish during the past year. It seems that a man on his death-bed in late 2004 confessed to his daughter that he had taken the bells in the midst of the chaos of the war. He kept them hidden in a barn all these years. The authorities upon receiving notice of the theft began a search for the owners. As they were cast in Villedieu les Poelles, not far from here, it was easy to find out who ordered the bells. Upon verifying that they were truly the bells of the Orthodox Parish of Colombelle, the bells were returned early this year and placed in the bell tower. They were rung with excessive joy throughout the procession on the night of Pascha. A story for the media! Also, the cupola which is being repaired was unwrapped (athough there is still scaffolding present) and the large bronze cross was blessed and placed on top of the dome on the morning of Holy Friday. Pascha was truly memorable for the parish of Caen.
Everyone baptized into Christ should pass progressively through all the stages of Christ's own life, for in baptism he receives the power so to progress, and through the commandments he can discover and learn how to accomplish such progression. - Saint Gregory of Sinai
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