Commentary on Hierarchical Divine Liturgy - Ruthenian Greek Catholic Cathedral, Mukachevo, Ukraine - Nativity of Our Lord 2012

[ByzCathCantor]

NOTE: carried over from another thread as a separate topic

Originally Posted by ByzCathCantor

If you want a truly special version, try the Christmas Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral in Mukachevo, Ukraine, our “Mother Church”. Its in Ukrainian and Church Slavonic, but that really doesn’t matter - the chant is divine!

Nativity 2012 - HDL - Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Originally Posted by 5Loaves

That’s a very interesting video. In case OP William777 doesn’t know what is going on later in the tape, it is a heirarchial liturgy and the bishop is vesting in the presence of the people. He seems to largely be vesting himself. I don’t know if that is the tradition or if there just weren’t sub-deacons to do the dresser role. Here is some footage from the bishop vesting at the altar feast of the OCA I attend. (The priest of this parish is actually Carpatho-Rusyn himself. He’s directing the choir in the service, his preferred location when there are other priests who can do the serving at the altar.) I was standing right where the camera guys were so this was my view of it as well. I find this vesting of the Bishop a very moving thing. You can see ripidia in use in that film also. Fr Hopko has seven sessions on “Vesting for Liturgy” in his excellent Worship in Spirit and Truth podcasts where he goes into detail about the vesting of the bishop. Thanks be to God this Youtube doesn’t include me in the role Father forced me into, singing “seven swans a swimming” during the trapeza!

I’m curious-- what languages is the Carpatho-Rusyn bishop translating from/to with the Latin bishop in that video?

I’ll have to listen to the video once again to find out, but the Latin hierarch in attendance is Archbishop Thomas Edward Gullickson, the Apostolic Nuncio to the Ukraine. He is from South Dakota, and his bio indicated that he speaks speaks English, Italian, French and German. My guess is they are translating from Ukrainian to Italian (I know I heard “natale” at the end).

 

[ByzCathCantor]

As 5Loaves correctly states, this is a very interesting video on multiple counts:

This is a hierarchical Divine Liturgy for the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord - Christmas 2012 (January 7, 2012), as they follow the Old Calendar in the Ukraine.

The Divine Liturgy is also being attended by the Apostolic Nuncio to the Ukraine, on his first visit to Transcarpathia.

Bishop Milan Šašik of the Ruthenians is the main celebrant. He, unlike many Ruthenian bishops, does a simplified version of the vesting rite. It’s a revived custom we hope will spread by his good example.

 

[5Loaves]

As 5Loaves correctly states, this is a very interesting video on multiple counts…

Bishop Milan Šašik of the Ruthenians is the main celebrant. He, unlike many Ruthenian bishops, does a simplified version of the vesting rite. It’s a revived custom we hope will spread by his good example.

Originally Posted by 5Loaves
…Here is some footage from the bishop vesting at the altar feast of the OCA I attend.
… Fr Hopko has seven sessions on “Vesting for Liturgy” in his excellent Worship in Spirit and Truth podcasts where he goes into detail about the vesting of the bishop.

I’ll just add in the links to those two things in my original post-- one of Bishop Benjamin with a tiny bit of his vesting (also a more slavic style chant), at the altar feast of this parish, and then to Fr Hopko podcasts on “Vesting for Liturgy”

You referenced the “Hierarchical DL can be found on Rdr. Jack Figel’s site, OLTV.tv, celebrated by the late +Bishop Pataki,” which I didn’t spot there but I do also see an Orthodox Pontifical Divine Liturgy which looks to me to be Met Jonah, which shows what to me seems like the vestings I’m used to seeing in Russian parishes, ROCOR and OCA.

When I’ve been to Hierarchical DL at Bishop Benjamin’s Cathedral in SF he has arrived vested. It’s been a while since I watched this but again, a good example of a bishop vesting. The vesting prayers can be heard in this one.

Thank you for bringing in OLTV. There is a lot there which OP in the previous thread would find useful perhaps.

I’m trying to remember… but think that when I’ve been at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Oakland, and the one in SF, both Met. Gerasimos remained in his cassock, adding his epitrachil for communion, so I’m not sure I’ve seen a Greek style vesting.

 

[ByzCathCantor]

Thanks, 5Loaves!

The Byzantine-Ruthenian Hierarchical Divine Liturgy I had referenced can be found here: OL II - Byzantine Divine Liturgy (1998)

It is the first one listed under “Divine Liturgies - English” on the Orientale Lumen Conference Liturgies page on the OLTV.tv site.

The OLIII Orthodox DL was presided by then Bishop Kallistos Ware, concelebrated with Metropolitan Nicholas (ACROD) and +Archbishop Vsevolod (UOC-USA).