DL in English, and other questions

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OK, so this has probably been asked multiple times so please forgive me. I have read here on CAF in the past that it is typical of Eastern Christianity to hold the Divine Liturgy in the language of the country they are in (at least I believe I remember reading this). Is this accurate?

Secondly, can someone link me a video of a particularly nice DL in English, should such a thing exist.

Finally, my family has started a bit of a tradition of going someplace different for the Easter Triduum to visit. Sort of an opportunity to get away from our normal lives and focus on God rather than other things during that most important time of the year. This year, we went to a Benedictine Monastery and stayed, and prayed, with the monks. Next year, we have considered finding and Eastern Catholic parish that might have a good deal going on for the weekend. If anyone has a recommendation (within reasonable driving distance of North Texas), I would be most interested to hear about it.

Peace of Christ,
 
jwinch2 said:
OK, so this has probably been asked multiple times so please forgive me. I have read here on CAF in the past that it is typical of Eastern Christianity to hold the Divine Liturgy in the language of the country they are in (at least I believe I remember reading this). Is this accurate?
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It really depends on the parish. Some will have all English, some will have all of another language. Some parishes split it with some parts in English and other parts in another language.
jwinch2 said:
Secondly, can someone link me a video of a particularly nice DL in English, should such a thing exist.
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YouTube has a bunch, I’ll see if I can find some specific ones.
jwinch2 said:
Finally, my family has started a bit of a tradition of going someplace different for the Easter Triduum to visit. Sort of an opportunity to get away from our normal lives and focus on God rather than other things during that most important time of the year. This year, we went to a Benedictine Monastery and stayed, and prayed, with the monks. Next year, we have considered finding and Eastern Catholic parish that might have a good deal going on for the weekend. If anyone has a recommendation (within reasonable driving distance of North Texas), I would be most interested to hear about it.

Peace of Christ,
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It’s not Catholic, but we’d love to have you at St. Barbara’s in Ft. Worth for our Pascha service on May 4th/5th 🙂
 
jwinch2 said:
OK, so this has probably been asked multiple times so please forgive me. I have read here on CAF in the past that it is typical of Eastern Christianity to hold the Divine Liturgy in the language of the country they are in (at least I believe I remember reading this). Is this accurate?

Secondly, can someone link me a video of a particularly nice DL in English, should such a thing exist.

Finally, my family has started a bit of a tradition of going someplace different for the Easter Triduum to visit. Sort of an opportunity to get away from our normal lives and focus on God rather than other things during that most important time of the year. This year, we went to a Benedictine Monastery and stayed, and prayed, with the monks. Next year, we have considered finding and Eastern Catholic parish that might have a good deal going on for the weekend. If anyone has a recommendation (within reasonable driving distance of North Texas), I would be most interested to hear about it.

Peace of Christ,
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Dallas Metro Area:

St Basil the Great Byzantine (Ruthenian) Church
stbasilsinirving.org/

St Sophia Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church
stsophiaukrainian.cc/
 
jwinch2 said:
Secondly, can someone link me a video of a particularly nice DL in English, should such a thing exist.
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Here is a very nice English recording of the Greek/Antiochian expression of the Divine Liturgy by the Mount Lebanon Choir. (This is a studio-quality recording and as such wouldn’t be quite what you’d hear in a typical parish.)
 
We’re Catholic and also would love to have you join us for Pascha May 4/5, or any time. 🙂 Our Liturgy is mostly English, with a bit of Church Slavonic, and Arabic at times here and there.
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Secondly, can someone link me a video of a particularly nice DL in English, should such a thing exist.
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Met Jonah celebrating Divine Liturgy at St Nicholas Cathedral DC during the 2009 Orientale Lumen XIII Conference. Additional Divine Liturgies in English during the conferences.
 
Being in the United States does not mean the vernacular is American-English.

The Ruthenians in the Transcarpathian Mountains emigrated to the United States long before the rest of the Ukrainians did. They’ve been here so long that they are almost all Americans, many of whom preserve their ethnic heritage.

The Ukrainian Church in the United States has more recent immigrants. New immigrants are combined with 1st and 2nd generation Americans. Their vernacular is still Ukrainian. Now the 3rd and 4th generations are being born and marriage with other ethnic groups is occurring with regularity and converts are joining the Church. The parishes reflect this shift in their language choices for Liturgy.
For the people of Kyivan-Rus, those emigrations occurred in four distinct waves. The first wave was primarily peasants from the Transcarpathian Mountains who moved to the Coal Belt area of the United States and Canada looking for economic prosperity. The next wave was a more educated group of Transcarpathians who were fleeing Communism between WWI and WWII. The third wave came after World War II when President Truman allowed tens of thousands of Ukrainians to settle in the United States as refugees. It was a small wave of people in comparison, but these people typically had higher levels of education and were able to establish stronger community networks once they arrived. The fourth wave of Ukrainian immigration is ongoing, occurring after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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We would love to have you at St. Sophia! The parish has a healthy mix of ages, races and cultures, cradle and convert, and languages. The larger Ukrainian community makes an effort to travel for the big feasts so you’ll see a lot of the ethnic customs at those times. For example, we had a pysanky Ukrainian Easter egg workshop in the Great Fast. Chrystya does a wonderful job leading it and novices of every age and background walk away with beautiful and traditional eggs. We also have an annual Lenten mission, which is completely in English. The parish’s diversity means you’ll see more of one on some days than others.

Most of our services are bilingual, being in both English and Ukrainian. Our readings and homily are in English, as well as other sections like litanies, priest’s parts, etc. Here is a recent example, a video excerpt from a memorial service for an All Souls Saturday. The priest is saying “From X family,” then reading down a very long list of first names of loved ones who’ve fallen asleep in the Lord. The deacon leads the litanies. The people respond in Ukrainian with, “Hospody, pomyloy!” which means, “Lord, have mercy!”

Father Pavlo holds a traditionally eastern view as he says the Liturgy will reflect the parishioners’ vernacular. If a large group of Chinese show up at the door tomorrow, Father says Liturgy will be in Mandarin next week. Some of the languages spoken in the parish include French, Russian, German, Spanish, Ukrainian, Serbian, and English.

You can see some of this year’s Holy Week services on our parish blog. But don’t wait until next year to visit! There are several families who come once a month. We will be starting Vespers with fellowship soon and the catechesis will be starting back, too. Join us for some of them!
 
5Loaves said:
We’re Catholic and also would love to have you join us for Pascha May 4/5, or any time. 🙂 Our Liturgy is mostly English, with a bit of Church Slavonic, and Arabic at times here and there.
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I visit Our Lady of Fatima Russian Catholic Church website all the time, I love it, its a great website with a lot of great info! byzantinecatholic.org/AboutUs/index.html - Do you guys celebrate both Julian and Gregorian Pascha or just one?
 
wynd said:
And here I thought he said he wanted a recording of the FULL Liturgy. :banghead: :o
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I also understood it that way. When asked on facebook, I took it to mean a full Divine Liturgy in a Ukrainian Catholic parish. This is what I found.

The best I am aware of in English is St. Elias’ channel. They have the liturgy broken up, but I don’t remember one video that goes through the whole liturgy.
youtube.com/user/tsyhan

There’s also the Cantonese missionary liturgy in Hong Kong with UGCC Fr. Olexander Kenez from Melbourne:
youtube.com/watch?v=qv61r5YtWNQ
youtube.com/watch?v=7WOBgAt64Y8

And here’s a patriarchal liturgy in Ukrainian in Lviv:
youtube.com/watch?v=8S9RmByMAhs
youtube.com/watch?v=f85tiE8BkH0

Salt & Light has a video that is difficult to hear but is from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops:
youtube.com/watch?v=ifL9ceI9EIE
 
wynd said:
And here I thought he said he wanted a recording of the FULL Liturgy. :banghead: :o
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Well, two to three hours of a DL online is unlikely to find me thinks. Best to just show up some Sunday at an Orthodox or EC parish that celebrates in English, 🙂
 
The DL we went to before we moved had a mixture of Old Church Slavonic and English; diferent parts in each language each week so one could learn it all easily 🙂

Yes, I think the liturgies are in the vernacular where the people come from, bit here in the US, they didn’t immdiately change their idea of the vernacular language, iyswim.
 
CDB1718 said:
You can see some of this year’s Holy Week services on our parish blog. But don’t wait until next year to visit! There are several families who come once a month. We will be starting Vespers with fellowship soon and the catechesis will be starting back, too. Join us for some of them!
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You’ve got an active Facebook, too. 🙂
 
Maron_Ignatius said:
I visit Our Lady of Fatima Russian Catholic Church website all the time, I love it, its a great website with a lot of great info! byzantinecatholic.org/AboutUs/index.html -
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That will make our web-master very pleased to hear. 🙂
Do you guys celebrate both Julian and Gregorian Pascha or just one?
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We only celebrate Pascha on the Julian Calendar, May 5 this year. We do share in the joy our many friends on the new calendar who are celebrating Pascha now. 🙂 We’re on the “Revised Julian Calendar”=-- Paschalion on the Julian, the rest of the year Gregorian, same as the Greek, and Antiochian Orthodox here, and the majority of OCA.
 
Thanks everyone!

I appreciate the information and the assistance.

Peace,
 
For non-Byzantine Churches here’s one example:

Videos of the Divine Liturgy of St. James, celebrated according to the Malankara Syrian Catholic Tradition (same as Syriac Orthodox, Syriac Catholic and Malankara Orthodox), similar to Maronite:

youtube.com/user/HolyQurbono/videos
 
This is audio, not video as you requested, but I enjoy it very much and it’s taught me to follow along with the DL.

🙂
 
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