Ed Sedor, Choir Director Emeritus, sings Otce Nas (Our Father) during Father Stephen Dutko's 66th ordination anniversary! Pastor emeritus of St. Michael's, Binghamton, NY, ACROD
The videos of August 16 and 17, 2008 are from the ACROD Diocesan Pilgrimage at the wooden Rusyn style church built in 2003 at the diocesan Camp Nazareth, located in Mercer,PA. Church slavonic Carpatho Rusyn prostopenije/plain chant is led by Reader Andrew Talarovich of St. Nicholas, Church, Homestead, PA.
The videos of August 16 and 17, 2008 are from the ACROD Diocesan Pilgrimage at the wooden Rusyn style church built in 2003 at the diocesan Camp Nazareth, located in Mercer,PA. The litija breads are being blessed at Vespers. The Sunday Tropar, Tone 8 is being chanted. The Kondak is Tone 4.
The videos of August 16 and 17, 2008 are from the ACROD Diocesan Pilgrimage at the wooden Rusyn style church built in 2003 at the diocesan Camp Nazareth, located in Mercer,PA. Milost Mira - We Praise You, the hymn at the Consecation sung in traditiional Rusyn chant.
The videos of August 16 and 17, 2008 are from the ACROD Diocesan Pilgrimage at the wooden Rusyn style church built in 2003 at the diocesan Camp Nazareth, located in Mercer,PA. The traditional response to the Bishop's blessing in the Rusyn tradition is for the congregation to respond in liturgical Greek with the 'Ton Despotin' - 'Eis polla eti despota' or 'Many years, O Master!'
The videos of August 16 and 17, 2008 are from the ACROD Diocesan Pilgrimage at the wooden Rusyn style church built in 2003 at the diocesan Camp Nazareth, located in Mercer,PA.
The videos of August 16 and 17, 2008 are from the ACROD Diocesan Pilgrimage at the wooden Rusyn style church built in 2003 at the diocesan Camp Nazareth, located in Mercer,PA. Tone 8 is the 9th Sunday after Pentecost, Tone 7 s the pre-feast of the Transfiguration.
The videos of August 16 and 17, 2008 are from the ACROD Diocesan Pilgrimage at the wooden Rusyn style church built in 2003 at the diocesan Camp Nazareth, located in Mercer,PA. It is a pious tradition of the Rusyns, both Orthodox and Greek Catholic to chant the Zastupnice kondak during Sunday's Liturgy based on the love of the Rusyn people of the Theotokos, Mary the Birth-Giver of God!