Have you attended Third Hour or Orthos before DL elsewhere?
We have Third Hour and Sixth Hour with Divine Liturgy. Most of the time I chant the Third Hour because basically I’m the only one there in time to do it who isn’t otherwise engaged (altar servers, choir rehearsing). It is done with the priest. I wait until they have vested and begun Proskomedia, then I begin. Sixth Hour is usually chanted by one of the choir members, with the priest still in the Holy Place usually. Third and Sixth Hour are very much an interaction between the faithful in the nave and the clergy in the sanctuary.
Chanted, without the priest, using a locally modified set of rubrics and the late 1990’s Ruthenian texts.
When you say these, do you say them quickly “lordhavemercylordhavemercy …” ?One change I’ve made is that Phillip Rolfes made me a prayer rope of four sets of 10 and I use this for the 40 Gospodi pomilui/Kyrie eleison/Lord have Mercy! I think it makes the breathing for that repetition of 40 easier. I’ve encouraged the guys chanting the Sixth Hour to also use it.
and he silently waits for a reaction
The priest and deacon at my UGCC said that it is not to be done in our parish. We still don’t have it started yet, but I hope it will begin soon!
It’s an abuse. Even the old diaconal form doesn’t use the priestly prayers. That’s one of the elements I’ve pointed out at home… and in the Ruthenian Metropolia of Pittsburgh, it’s not approved for readers versions to use them, tho’ only “experimental” readers’ versions and deacons’ versions are approved.
We have Reader’s Vespers most Saturdays. These do not include the priests part. When I chant the hours on Sundays while the clergy are celebrating Proskomedia our newer priest occasionally fails to respond at for example the end of the Lord’s Prayer. I was instructed to simply say “Amen” and proceed. I would certainly not read his part.
