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I had a few hours last night and found some wonderful Eastern Liturgical Sources online in Spanish. Not all links at these sites work, but there is a wealth of materials for those who are looking for liturgical services, prayers, theological and spiritual writings in Spanish:

Prayers and Sacrament Texts from Father Alexander (ROCOR) [fatheralexander.org]

Liturgical Services (Antiochian Orthodox in Argentina) [acoantioquena.com] (This has some wonderful items in Word format!!)

Prayers & Liturgies (Greek Orthodox -- Argentina) [ortodoxia.org]

Liturgical Services (Antiochian Orthodox in Chile) [iglesiaortodoxa.cl] There are other pages at this site with more items.

Liturgical PDFs (Guatemalan Orthodox Church) [iglesiaortodoxa.org.gt]

Mexican Orthodox Church (click on "Liturgicos") [ortodoxiamx.4t.com]

San Marcos Parish Sources (Serbian Orthodox) [parrokiortodoxoa.googlepages.com] Many broken links.

Perhaps others are aware of more sites which could be added to this list?

Some video and audio:

I came across this interesting series of videos from a Antiochian monastery in Mexico which gives much of the priest's parts for the Divine Liturgy in Spanish. It appears to be an instructional video series and includes the Preparation Liturgy.

1 - El Keron [youtube.com]

2 - La Oblacion [youtube.com]

3 - Cubrir Los Dones [youtube.com]

4 - Liturgia 1 [youtube.com]

5 - Liturgia 2 [youtube.com]

Two recordings of liturgical music in Spanish with both the priest's and people's parts can be heard in the background of these two videos:

Choir of St George's Cathedral in Mexico [youtube.com] Additional music [youtube.com]

One last link to post:

Divine Litugy (St John Chrysostom & St Basil) PDF in Spanish [sfnectariecoslada.ro] 222 pages. It can be printed out as a booklet. Includes Pontifical info, Liturgical Calendar, Prayers for the Church Year, Glossary and Commentary. Very nicely done!

Very nice collection, Dave. I notice that the Mexican link is to the OCA's Exarchate there. Can anyone deduce the canonical ties of the Guatamalan link - clicking through it quickly, I did find one link to a Russian Orthodox monastery, but didn't see anything definitive.

Figured I might as well ask to whom they were ascribed, because someone surely will, sooner or later. I would note that, even if they turn out to be non-canonical or vagante, they have some nicely done bi-lingual (side-by-side) booklets in PDF format.

Many years,

Neil

Based on this link [iglesiaortodoxa.org.mx] it looks like the Archbishop is Antiochian. I've tried to find a better page for the Antiochians in Mexico, but haven't been successful yet. Perhaps others know of other links?

Makes sense, I hadn't noticed his surname previously on the Guatamalan site, but it looks Lebanese.


No link or reference to it on the AOCANA site.

Many years,

Neil

"The Antiochian Church in Guatemala is under the jurisdiction of Metropolitan Antonio Chedraoui, Archbishop for Mexico, Central America, the Caribean Islands and Venezuela."

I recognised the Orphanage in Guatemala run by the nuns from an article I had read in a publication put out by Romanian juristiction monastery of nuns in the USA.

I tried to find a website for the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy in Argentina. I did find an article for it at Wikipedia [en.wikipedia.org] and another article [en.wikipedia.org] that discusses the ethnic identity of Ukrainian Argentines. I remember that Fr. Soutus in Phoenix was from Argentina and he had mentioned some materials in Spanish that the Ukrainian Eparchy had put out. Does anyone else know more about any Spanish materials that the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Aregentina puts out?

I have spent some more time at the website of Santisima Virgen Maria [iglesiaortodoxa.cl] parish in Santiago, Chile (Antiochian Orthodox) mentioned above. The main page, though a bit disorganized, appears regularly updated and has many audio sermons available and a monthly radio program. The section Cursos [iglesiaortodoxa.cl] leads to many online courses available through the parish with many PDFs and Powerpoints which can be downloaded. (I was particularly impressed with the powerpoint about St. María Skobtsova.) I read (somewhere on the site) that they claim to have the most visited Spanish Orthodox website on the Internet. I've traded some emails with the pastor of the parish and he's said he will share a mp3 file of the entire Liturgy in Spanish. If I get it and get his permission, I'll see if I can find a way to share it with others here.

Dave,

AICA (Argentinean Catholic Information Agency) is usually a pretty good source for such info (diocesan web addresses, etc). It doesn't list one on its info page for the eparchy - Eparchy of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires of the Ukrainians [aica.org]. In fact, among the EC & OC jurisdictions in Argentina, I think only the Maronites have a website.

Many years,

Neil

Thanks for checking, Neil. From what I can see, the Antiochians, the Greeks and the Russians [iglesiarusa.org.ar] have sites in Argentina. The Antiochian and Greek sites are referenced above.

Hi,

I have a bunch of translations of my own. There used to be posted on the byzantines.net site, but I believe it is no longer active.

If anybody is interested, please email me at: memorodriguez@usa.net

and I'll be more than happy to forward what I have.

Please notice that the Ruthenian-Use version of the Divine Liturgy is pre-Y2K.

Thanks.

Shalom,
Memo

Thanks for the note, Memo!

Yes, I miss the old byzantines.net site. Maybe someday someone will resurrect it or start something similar.

http://www.iglesiaortodoxa.org.mx - It is actually the official site of the Antiochian Archdiocese of Mexico, Central America and Venezuela. Metropolitan Antonio Chedraoui is Lebanese.

http://iglesia-ortodoxa.org - their parish in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, which is the only Orthodox church in the country.

http://www.iglesiasanjorge.com - their parish in Valencia, Venezuela.

http://www.hogarafaelayau.org/ - the Orphanage of the Monastery in Guatemala.

Thanks, ag_vn, for these links. I found this interesting interview [pravoslavie.ru] with Abbess Ines, the head of Holy Trinity Monastery in Guatemala. They run an orphanage there with quite a beautiful church, built in the Russian style.

Memo & Dave,

The translation can be accessed here [web.archive.org], using the Internet Archives Wayback Machine. Much of the content of the former site can be retrieved in that way and I'd recommend that anyone interested in salvaging some of it get to copying. The site's search engine won't work, but navigation from page to page is still generally possible (not always the case w/ IAWM cached sites) - it was last archived in mid-2008, shortly before the site went off-line, so most of the material is available.

Many years,

Neil