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The beautiful Feast of our Lady is coming this Friday on 15 August.

I’d like to hear about some of the customs observed, prayers, pious practices, and the like other Eastern Christians have for this time.
 
bpbasilphx said:
The beautiful Feast of our Lady is coming this Friday on 15 August.

I’d like to hear about some of the customs observed, prayers, pious practices, and the like other Eastern Christians have for this time.
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http://ocafs.oca.org/Icons/greatfeasts/0815Dormition0001.jpg

This is definitely an icon that is very emotional for me. See Christ holding the soul of the Theotokos as a little child wrapped in swaddling clothes the same way she once held Him. It brings a tear to my eye.

Yours in Christ
Joe
 
Vespers with Litya Thursday evening followed by a blessing of flowers; Matins and a special Akathist in honor of the Dormition on Friday morning followed by Liturgy and another blessing of flowers for those unable to come for Vespers.

In some of our UGCC parishes the practice of the burial procession is taken in monasteries and is being restored even to parish usage: saintgeorgepittsburgh.org/dormition.htm
This is more common in Melkite parishes, as I recall.

From the Monastery of the Dormition in Univ (UGCC):
http://saintgeorgepittsburgh.org/Dormition_Univmonastery.jpg

http://saintgeorgepittsburgh.org/dormiton_procession.jpg

(The priest in the lower photo holding the shroud in the front left side is Fr. Borys Gudziak, president of Ukrainian Catholic University.)
 
Diak said:
Vespers with Litya Thursday evening followed by a blessing of flowers; Matins and a special Akathist in honor of the Dormition on Friday morning followed by Liturgy and another blessing of flowers for those unable to come for Vespers.

In some of our UGCC parishes the practice of the burial procession is taken in monasteries and is being restored even to parish usage: saintgeorgepittsburgh.org/dormition.htm
This is more common in Melkite parishes, as I recall.

From the Monastery of the Dormition in Univ (UGCC):
http://saintgeorgepittsburgh.org/Dormition_Univmonastery.jpg

http://saintgeorgepittsburgh.org/dormiton_procession.jpg

(The priest in the lower photo holding the shroud in the front left side is Fr. Borys Gudziak, president of Ukrainian Catholic University.)
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That’s pretty amazing.
 
Thank you for showing such a very touching and truely Beautiful Icon… Blessings, Douglas.
 
Diak said:
In some of our UGCC parishes the practice of the burial procession is taken in monasteries and is being restored even to parish usage: saintgeorgepittsburgh.org/dormition.htm
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Fr. Deacon,

This is Fr. Valerian’s parish. He is the host of the Ukrainian Catholic radio program CHRIST AMOUNG US on WPIT in Pittsburgh.

Here’s a link: www.wpitam.com

It’s on every Sunday afternoon at 2pm EDT (or EST depending)

They also great ethinic music starting at 12noon until 6pm…

enjoy!

mark
 
We do a blessing of flowers and herbs after the Great Vespers, which start in about an hour…

and then again in the morning after the Liturgy.

A blessed end to the Dormition Fast to everyone and Happy Feast.

salaam.
 
We only started the Dormition fast yesterday—being on the Julian calendar. 🙂
 
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We only started the Dormition fast yesterday—being on the Julian calendar.**

I thought the OCA was now officially on the New Calendar now (aka Revised Julian).
 
Happy Feast of the Dormition (to everyone who is celebrating it today)!

🙂
 
I am new to this site. Can you just pass some more information so that I can understand better?
andrewadam

orkut.com
 
Can you just pass some more information so that I can understand better?

**Forgive me, but I don’t quite understand what it is that you’re not understanding.

Could you ask in more detail about what you’d like to know?**
 
Not all OCA parishes have adopted the revised Julian.

I remember when there were attempts to make everyone go on the RJ calendar in 1981. Abp. Dmitri (as he is now) was against forcing this, even though most of the Diocese of the South was on it.
 
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