I'm super Proud to be an Orthodox convert. Although Orthodoxy is new in the Philippines and our numbers are few I'm sure a time will come that God will bless us with more converts and our humble Churches and Temples will be as beautiful as that of Russias and Americas for the Glory of God.

Thanks Nickolas for putting this up.

Staggeringly beautiful 🙏

Our Faith is the most beautiful thing ever. 🥹🥹🥹😭

Amazing video. I'm Eastern Catholic so, very familiar as our liturgy has been reclaiming its roots. Chant and choral singing in Church Slavonic is sublime. Something gets lost when in English. Nice to see Orthodox representation from Washington DC and that one temple looks like the Mechanicsburg, PA parish to me. Thank you for posting.

@Eyb0ssfu

7 сағат бұрын

Probably because of the chant being developed to that language. Some day American church’s will probably full of Appalachian Chant. So cool to see all the same faith with beautiful nuances to the people that are expressing it.

This is one of my favorite texts from the Divine Liturgy. I am working at memorizing it in Slavonic, along with several others. But if you try to translate the text, you will be greatly frustrated, as the grammar is almost inscrutable. It is poetry, and one must just take it as that.

@ltlarrow1

4 ай бұрын

The OCA has been doing the Divine Liturgy in English for over 50 years. Nothing about the text in English is inscrutable.

Very well done, I like how the deacon is overlapped by the choir.

@nicholashojnicki

8 ай бұрын

Psalm 51

@Vladimir82623

8 ай бұрын

Psalm 51 (50) or 52(51)? I’m assuming 51(50) “have mercy on me o God…”

@nicholashojnicki

8 ай бұрын

@@Vladimir82623 Septuagint, Psalm 51

@Vladimir82623

8 ай бұрын

Gotcha, thanks.

@ltlarrow1

4 ай бұрын

@@nicholashojnicki edited: that is not what is being read in the background (Psalm 50 is indeed read by the deacon while he censes). In this recording the main concelebrant is reading the priestly prayer: "no one who is bound with the desires and the pleasures of earthly flesh..." Then he recites three times the first part of the Cherubim Hymn and the deacon responds with the second part.

écoutons...ne cherchons pas à traduire...Christ vient en nous....

this is not a recording of the actual service in this church. it is the Sretensky Monastery Choir singing over a compendium of services in several churches in Russia and America

@nicholashojnicki

4 ай бұрын

Sretensky Monastery is singing the Cherubic Hymn in this video. It is a compilation of multiple churches around the world.

What is the deacon behind the holy table carrying on his shoulder, what is it called and what is its purpose? These strike me as being specific to the Russian usage. Often, they rest behind the holy table, one on each side. I've wondered this for some time now.

@ltlarrow1

4 ай бұрын

the deacon, during the Great Entrance puts the aer, or the large cloth the cover that the gifts until The Creed, over his shoulder.