"Eis Polla Eti Despota!" - Pontifical Byzantine Liturgy

Bi-lingual 50th Aniversary Liturgy of St. Joseph Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Chicago Illinois.

Bishop: Most Rev. Richard Seminack
Pastor: + Rev. Pavlo Hayda

Ukrainian-American Youth Association Choir "CYM" under the direction of Wolodymyr Popowycz

September 24th 2006

on the web at:
www.stjosephucc.org

Category:

Education

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• Bi-lingual
• 50th
• Aniversary
• Liturgy
• of
• St.
• Joseph
• Ukrainian
• Greek
• Catholic
• Church
• in
• Chicago
• Illinois.

[hurricaneomega]

addendum: the acoustics sound great, though. Is there a sound system at all?

[julianhayda]

@hurricaneomega

there is, but i don't believe the choir was miced then. it's not usually necessary.

[drupes]

@sotelios Such arrogance from eastern schismatics ('orthodox"). When it comes to anything Catholic these people don't have a shred of charity in them, just look at their comments here on Youtube or read the so-called "orthodox" blogs on the net. I'm not surprised, just look at Constantinople and Moscow squabbling over jurisdiction of the Estonian "orthodox" church, and Moscow and Romania over Moldavia. Such hostility for their own, how much more for others?

[LiturgicalChants]

@trotsafrikaner - I second that view...I think St Joseph's Church is distinctively shocking and unnattractive exterior wise, the interior also is too barren. They are giving Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin a run for it's money in the contest for "most modernist" eastern christian church. Exteriorwise I think Annunciation is more subdued and attractive, much as it is not great and radically untraditional.

[sotelios]

ha-ha they are catholics pretending or better trying to be like the orthodox, very funny........ but they will still be heretics...the bishop's vestments are for a clown.. look at real byzantine vestments.... still laughing

[readermichael]

@marahbadrian It is only after the vesting that he blesses in four directions while Ton Dhespotin is again sung once only, and he does not say the "Lord, Lord, look down from heaven and behold" as the bishop did in this video. That is only done in the Liturgy itself, at the Trisagion. What we are seeing here may be a legitimate Ukrainian tradition, or it may be a local custom, but it is not Russian.

[readermichael]

@marahbadrian We don't do this in the Russian church either. If the bishop comes to the church in procession, he does so in cassock and the censers are blessed before the procession starts but when he gets to the doors of the church, the reception of the bishop happens in the usual way. Then he approaches the solea, the preparation prayers are said by a deacon, and as he turns to bless the people with his hands, "Ton dhespotin" is sung once only. Then he is vested in the middle of the church.

[trotsafrikaner]

Beautiful service but the outside of the church is too modern.

[dimdindan]

Oυνίτες ... Προβατόσχημοι λύκοι ....

[dx4020]

OYNITES!!!!!!!!!!

[marahbadrian]

IIRC, this tradition is purely Russian. The greeks don't do this