Saturday, September 12, 2009
Regarding the alleged less than 1 hour RDL liturgies
Today, a simple divine liturgy for the leave-taking of the feast of the birth of the Theotokos; Divine liturgy consisted of Fr. and myself as cantor. Liturgy was just under 1 hour due to no homily. I didn't rush anything nor did Fr. That said, how then, can a full congregational DL be under an hour with a homily and communion and announcements before the blessing if it takes an hour to celebrate a DL with exactly two people-a priest and cantor (with no homily, communion for one, and no announcements?
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I am a cantor at St. Nicholas in Barberton, OH. Fr. Miron, his wife, and I routinely sing the RDL on a weekday in 45 minutes with no homily, of course. I think Fr. Miron is fairly fast with the priest's prayers which he may be doing in Slavonic or Slovak. For example, two slow cherubicons is usually enough.
Some priests seem to "speed think" the prayers so fast it makes me question whether they really PRAY during the celebration of the Divine Liturgy.
I guest cantored in Perth Amboy, NJ (Byzantine Ruthenian Catholic) about 3 years ago and the priest "said" the cherubicon prayers so fast we were only able to get through a fast sung the cherubic hymn once! His hand elevations between the prayers almost seemed like he was flying.
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