Russian Baroque Vocal Music

Interesting: (Just happened to come across): Russian Baroque Vocal Music (something of musical great beauty from old Imperial European-Russia)-    Inbox

Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com> Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 2:32 PM Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRWdWMfSyVc&list=RDJRWdWMfSyVc#t=49 Russian Baroque Vocal Music [Ensemble Syntagma] www.youtube.com Музыка Русского Барокко / Musique Russe Baroque 1690-1740 Russian secular kanti [prototype of Russian romances] by unknown composers based on manuscripts fro...

Meatfare Saturday

A Sharing: For Meat fare Saturday, before the Sunday of the Last Judgement    Inbox

Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com> Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:26 PM Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original "O Lord of unutterable love, remember Thy servants who have fallen asleep."   MEATFARE SATURDAY The first universal, ancestral Saturday is on Meatfare Saturday. It falls during Meatfare Week and before the last day on which one may eat meat before the Great Fast begins. The following day, Sunday, commemorates the Dread judgment of Christ, and the Church prays for all that have departed in faith and hope of resurrection, beseeching the righteous judge to show forth His mercy upon them on the very day of impartial retribution at the universal judgment. The establishment of this Saturday dates from the first years of Christianity. Among the prayers during the divine services on this Saturday, we hear one for all "that from Adam until today have reposed in piety and correct faith," of every calling and every age; "for all that have drowned, that battle hath mown down, that earthquake hath swallowed up, that have been slain by murderers, that fire hath consumed, that have been food for the wild beasts, birds and serpents, that have been struck by lightning and have perished in freezing cold, that have fallen by the sword, that the horse hath trampled, the rock struck or the earth covered up, that have been slain by deadly potion or poison, or have choked on bones ... ", i.e. all that have met untimely deaths and have been left without a proper funeral. Thus does the Church care for all our fathers, brethren and relatives. Excerpt from The Church’s Prayer for the Dead, in Orthodox Life, Vol. 28,  No. 1, Jan-Feb 1978, pp. 18-19.

complete article:
http://orthodoxlifemagazines.blogspot.com/2017/01/1978-1-prayer-for-dead.html

Photo record: Feast of the Meeting of the Lord in Markopoulo (Attica), Greece

Sister GOC church to our ROCA:

Genuine Orthodox Church of Greece,  Greece: Feast of The Meeting of the Lord, in Markopoulo (Attica). ФОТО  PHOTOS Автор: Монахиня Вера вкл. Author: Nun Vera incl. 17 Февраль 2017 February 17, 2017 . . Опубликовано в ИПЦ Греции (Просмотров: 19) Posted in Greece CPI (Views: 19)

Таги: ипц греции , аттика , сретение , фото Tags: CPI Greece , Attica , Candlemas , photos

Праздник Сретения Господня прошел в Маркопуло (Аттика, ИПЦ Греции) в одноименном храме.


 The Meeting of the Lord Feast was held in Markopoulo (Attica, Greece GOC) in the  temple dedicated to this same feast.


 Возглавил праздничные богослужения Митрополит Хризостом Аттикийский и Беотийский, ему помогало духовенство местной митрополии.


Leading  the festal divine service, was Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Attikiysky and Boeotian. He was helped by the local clergy of the Archdiocese.

Во время вечерней службы, после чина благословения хлебов, состоялся большой крестный ход с иконой Праздника, в сопровождении филармонического оркестра муниципалитета, с участием молодых девушек, одетых в национальные костюмы, и представителей местных органов власти и парламента Греции.

During the evening service, after the festal  loaves of bread were blessed, there was a big outdoor cross procession with the icon of the Feast, accompanied by the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Municipality, with the participation of young girls dressed in national costumes, and by representatives of the local authorities and of the Greek Parliament.

 

В сам день Праздника была отслужена Божественная литургия.

The very day of the Feast, the  Divine Liturgy was served.

В храме было много народу. The temple was crowded. Митрополит Хризостом произнес праздничную проповедь, в которой подчеркнул, что, среди прочего, нам необходимо приобрести добрые качества, присущие св.

Metropolitan Chrysostomos delivered the  festive sermon, in which he said that, among other things, we need to acquire the good qualities of St. Simeon....

 Симеону Богоприимцу, такие как терпение, покорность и справедливость.

 ... such as patience, humility and justice. Также владыка сообщил об анти-христианских и быстрых изменениях, происходящих в Греции.

The bishop also spoke about the  anti-Christian rapid changes taking place in Greece.

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ROCA Vladyka Anthimus (our Vicar bishop in Moldova)

http://internetsobor.org/rptsz/tserkovnye-novosti/rptsz/rptsz-na-sretenie-preosvyashchennyj-episkop-anfim-sluzhil-v-monastyre-rumynskoj-starostilnoj-tserkvi-foto

Sharing:- photo record: For Feast of the Meeting of the Lord, our ROCA Vladyka Anthimus (our Vicar bishop in Moldova), invited & served in the Romanian Monastery of St. Glycheriya The Confessor    Inbox

Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com> Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 9:51 AM Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original ROCOR: On the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord,  our ROCA, His Grace Bishop Anthimus served in a monastery of the Romanian Old Calendar Church (PHOTOS) Автор: Митрополит Агафангел вкл. Author: Metropolitan Agafangel incl. 16 Февраль 2017 February 16, 2017 . . Опубликовано в РПЦЗ (Просмотров: 21) Published in the ROCA (Views: 21) Таги: рпйз , румынская старостильная церковь , епископ Анфим , епископ софроний Tags: rpyz , Romanian Old Calendar Church , Bishop Anthimus , Bishop Sophronius Преосвященный Анфим, епископ Чимишлийский, викарий Кишинёвской епархии РПЦЗ. Preosvyaschennyy Anfim, Bishop Cimislia, Vicar of the Diocese of Kishinev ROCOR. По приглашению Софрония, епископа Сучавского из Румынской Старостильной Православно й Церкви и по благословению Первоиерарха РПЦЗ митрополита Агафангела. At the initial invitation of Vladyka Sophronia of Suchavskogo, bishop of the Romanian Old Calendar Orthodox Church, and  with the blessing of the First Hierarch of ROCOR, Metropolitan Agafangel. С дружественным визитом посетил, на праздник Сретения Господня (2/15.02.2017 г.) , монастырь Св. Гликерия исповедника, в Румынии, где состоялось праздничное Богослужение. With this friendly visit, for the feast of The Meeting of the Lord (2 / 15.02.2017, the), at the Monastery of St.. Glicheriya The Confessor, in Romania, where  they celebrated a festive divine service. Tags: tags: рпйз rpyz румынская старостильная церковь Romanian Old Calendar Church епископ Анфим Bishop Anthimus епископ софроний Bishop Sophronius

Poor Kitty!

Sharing: Poor Kitty! under vicious dog attack!    Inbox

Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com> Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 1:22 PM Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRyN7muczX4 Jack Russell Puppies playing with cat www.youtube.com The puppies 31 days old fighting the old cat.

for Reflection: A must-hear presentation against Western prosylitism to Coptic Orthodox

A General Sharing for Reflection: "A must-hear presentation by a Coptic Orthodox Priest" (mainly, against Western Originated Protestant/Roman Catholic prosylitism to Coptic Orthodox people, and related subjects)    Inbox

Dan Everiss <oregdan@hotmail.com> Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 9:44 PM Reply | Reply to all | Forward | Print | Delete | Show original And my added personal experience and comment on the Coptic Church and its members: I basically agree here with Bp. Auxentius, on this issue, though he often refers to 'extremists',  which pejorative terminology I do not understand, as he tends to broadly over-utilize it.  He seems to use this approach often, to label some whom he personally disagrees with... or those who have had personal and hostile disputes with himself or with his mentor, retired Bp. Chrysostom of Etna. In Orthodoxy, one is either Orthodox, or one is not.  And too, if one is firmly Orthodox, one must state boldly when needed, and to defend our Orthodox Faith when it is under assault, as it is now in this massive world-wide apostasy,... and which in our constantly under attack, Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, we MUST do,  what one  understands as Orthodox and what is NOT, no matter who may be displeased, and not be  'man-pleasers' just to be popular, or 'liked. ' Ecumenist, sell-out-false Orthodoxy is all about pleasing this world, and to seek the praise of men. And thus, to strongly and vigorously defend Orthodoxy,-THAT IS NOT "EXTREMISM"! "Ye cannot please man and God!", and "The praise of men is enmity to God!" But beyond that, of course, there are many divergent opinions  about particular church problems or local arguments, and also, there are personality conflicts too, as the Earthly Church is composed of we frail human beings,. all imperfect....and that includes bishops and priests. The Coptics [descendants of the real historic Egyptian race, mostly early Christianized  long before the later Arab-Moslem mass-invasion of their ancient  land ]  are very close to us, in basic piety and belief and worship. Many years ago, in the mid 1960's, in Los Angeles I had some Coptic friends and I visited their church to witness their worship. They are actually far more reverent in church, than we are- in general. Then they used Coptic and some Arabic in their worship. But in whatever country they now have fled to, [ today all over the world] they soon begin to use the local language in their worship,  & to reach out to the local people, as they have tremendous missionary  zeal. On an average Sunday, in Los Angeles, they all came to their packed church several hours before their liturgy, to chant in unison the entire Psalter in a congregational lilting ancient Egyptian chant. This they did, simply.... to prepare themselves spiritually ......for the liturgy, at which many took Holy Communion. Their church and its worship were at the center of their lives. Do we do that? Nothing in their liturgy or their rituals,  [ which text in the liturgy books which were available to visitors, they had printed on opposite pages in Coptic and English] could I find anything which is offensive to Orthodoxy. And, they take off their shoes in their church, as it is 'holy ground'. Some  claim, [ but on that subject I am not an expert],  that the only real historical theological argument back then, was a matter of terminology/wording , not of an essential Orthodox understanding:  i.e. that Christ is both fully God and fully Man ...to which doctrine they totally  agree to. The past arguments had to do, in Greek,  with 'persons' and 'natures'.... and their relationships. Yet, never-the-less, we and they are separated. And too, we need to remember, the  cultural basis/prejudices  of them not accepting the Byzantine Council of Chalcedon, -that they, all true blooded & culturally Egyptians,  did not want to be under Byzantine-Greek  domination [ though their Coptic liturgical language is heavily Greek and in the Greek alphabet] and under and within the Byzantine Empire. Soon after, however, the Moslem-Arabs invaded Egypt and put them under centuries of their miserable dark Islamic terror and oppression....which is still on-going now. May God help them, in this time of their severe suffering! Their current and past  persecutions they take as God's  just punishment on them, for their sins....the basic biblical understanding. Not only are they under continued Moslem cultural and violent assaults, but also spiritual assaults from the Pope of Rome's  and the Protestant's  'missionaries'. The ones that I had contact with back then, had a warm sympathy to us, especially to the Russian church. Rd. Daniel on Oregon Warning: It is a bit hard to focus and read the rapidly-running  English translation from the priest's Arabic speech, on the bottom of this video, as that script seems to duplicate/override  & repeat itself, unnecessarily. Why?- I do not know. From: Saint Edward Brotherhood <info@saintedwardbrotherhood.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 1:44 PM Subject: A must-hear presentation by a Coptic Orthodox Priest Begin forwarded message: From: Bishop Auxentios of Etna Subject: A must-hear presentation by a Coptic Orthodox Priest Date: 15 February 2017 20:17:23 GMT Fr. Dawood Lamie on "The Faith of the Orthodox Church" Fr. Dawood Lamie on "The Faith of the Orthodox Church" "The Faith of our Orthodox Church is Upright" by Fr Dawood Laamy (Recording during a Q&A session) ... The Meeting of the Lord 2017 Dear Clergy, Faithful, and Friends:      Съ Праздникомъ and Χρόνια Πολλά for the Feast.      The attached answer, at a gathering of Coptic Orthodox believers, to a very significant question from one of the faithful is a most impressive response to the heterodox [ especially to the Protestants] regarding our Orthodox claims to historical and dogmatic primacy in the Christian world. It should be watched many times over by our own faithful. It was sent to me by one of our lower clergy, a well-educated and studious man soon to be ordained to the first level of the Priesthood (the Diaconate).      Copts are, of course, are separated from us true-believing Orthodox by a long-standing Christological heresy. As for those fond of such language, it is beyond dispute that they are heretics, [though they do confess that Christ is BOTH perfect God and perfect MAN] in that they have not openly rejected those dogmatic errors that separate us, even if many of them cautiously accept in private the deficiency of their non-Chalcedonian proclivities. Nonetheless, they are closest to us in their beliefs and are the inheritors of an undeniable and rich Orthodox piety in spiritual practice.      There are extremists, of course, who, lacking the love with which we must approach piously misled heretics, would say that the Coptic clergyman speaking here has nothing to say to us Orthodox (though ironically, his comments concern extremism). Such individuals need not listen. As for the more open-minded and thinking anti-ecumenists among us, his observations are especially relevant for us, addressing, as they do, two things: one, the blasphemy and outrage of widespread Protestant proselytism in the East among Orthodox Christians (their Fathers in the Faith, from whom they have been separated for centuries); and two, the blasphemy of preaching, by us Genuine Orthodox, against other Christians with hatred and vulgarity, instead of leading them again to the Orthodoxy from which they are separated. (And, indeed, if there is any place for dialogue, it is between us and the non-Chalcedonians. Peace to the fanatic preachers of hatred and extremists among  whom would rather proclaim them lost than try to save them!)      I am struck by the fact that a Coptic Orthodox Christian, separated from us Genuine Orthodox by an ancient Christological heresy, shares with us an understanding of a commitment to Holy Tradition and a resistance to the perfidious hypocrisy of ecumenism (a movement of Protestant origin endorsed by Roman Catholicism and by its own extensive proselytism in Orthodox lands). This separates him from world Orthodoxy, just as it does us. Imagine, as a consequence, what this says of the distance between Genuine Orthodox and the ecumenical frenzy that has overtaken “world Orthodoxy” and its modernism and innovation. Even a non-Chalcedonian Copt is closer to the Truth of Orthodoxy, in some ways, than the Orthodox ecumenists. This should cause us great fright, as these same ecumenists call us extremists, fanatics, half-wits, and cretins.      How, indeed, do the Orthodox ecumenists justify themselves, even when a clergyman from a Church condemned for heresy sees the folly of their actions and direction?      Least Among Monks, † Bp. Auxentios P.S. The translation of the Arabic is at times poor, but the message is quite clear.

Righteous Symeon, the God-Receiver

FW: A Sharing: (just now sent to me): Righteous Symeon, the God-Receiver - St. Philaret of New York    Trash

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RIGHTEOUS SYMEON, THE GOD-RECEIVER

Saint Philaret of New York

Our Church celebrates the great feasts not just for one day, but for a period of several days until its leave-taking, which for this Feast of the Meeting of the Lord will occur, God willing, on Thursday.  The Meeting of the Lord commemorates that wonderful event when He appeared in the Temple of His glory “as a babe borne in arms” (Irmos to Ode Four of the canon of the feast).  Today we heard the Gospel account of how the Righteous Symeon, who was granted the great mercy from God to receive into his aged hands the Creator of the universe, was informed by the Holy Spirit that he would not die until he would see the Lord’s Christ.  As church tradition tells us, an angel brought him this message many, many years before the Nativity of Christ.

Two hundred and seventy years before the Birth of Christ, the Egyptian emperor, eager for knowledge, requested a translation of the Jewish Sacred Scriptures into his own language.  The Righteous Symeon, already up in years, was one of the group of learned elders selected for the task, and he set out to translate his share of the work, the book of the Prophet Isaiah. In the passage where it says that the Savior of the world would be born of a Virgin, he wanted to make a correction, that is, instead of the word ‘virgin’ he wanted to put in the word meaning ‘married woman’.  At that point, an angel stopped his hand and said to him, “Believe what is written, and you will see its fulfillment in your own lifetime”.  It is remarkable that Symeon was already an old man, yet, as church tradition tells us, two hundred and seventy more years were to pass from that moment until the Birth of Christ.  That means that by the time he received the Infant God in his aged hands, he had beyond imagination exceeded the normal human life span.  What a beautiful and edifying example he gives us with his faith that did not doubt or weaken at all even after all that time!  He lived so long that before his eyes generation after generation of children were born and became adults, grew old and went to their graves, all the while that he continued to live on and on.  However, his faith did not weaken, but as ever burned with zeal while he awaited the fulfillment of the promise which eventually did come to pass.

This amazing example of faith proves to be very edifying for us.  We are inconsistent and always losing our faith, what little we have of it.  Even the disciples during their lifetime asked their Divine Teacher, “Increase our faith!” and it is all the more so that WE need to pray for this.  If the disciples felt that their faith was lacking and beseeched their Teacher to add to their faith, in our case, it is not their request ‘increase our faith’ that is appropriate (for the disciples HAD faith to start with, and they were asking for more) but the exclamation of the father whose son was sick, “I believe, Lord, help my unbelief!” that is more fitting for us.

This exclamation must be inseparable from us, because we lack faith.  How much easier it is for a person with faith to live his life! Faith is like a beacon that illumines his path!  There are still obstacles and difficulties, but that person sees everything correctly in the light of faith and as a Christian he takes everything in the right way.  Nowadays, people are in the dark and are lost without the light of faith.  Just look at what they have come up with instead, and how they have made a mess of their lives!

We have to pray that the Lord might give us even a small fraction of the burning faith that the great righteous elder Symeon had.  In the church services it is said that he was higher than the great prophet Moses.  Prophet Moses had to bow down to the ground and could look at the Lord only after He had passed by, and it was only from behind that he saw the Creator of the world going away from him. Symeon, however, had the greatest honor and mercy to receive Him into his own hands.  This was a reward for his faith, and it has now shone throughout the whole world, the faith which our compassionate Lord has granted us at least a small part.  Amen.

Translated from Sermons, Volume II, pages 220-221