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2 weeks ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Byzantine Liturgy |Gregory DiPippo
The Angel cried out to Her that is full of grace: “Hail, o holy Virgin, and again will I say ‘Hail!’ Thy Son is risen from the tomb on the third day, and has overthrown death; o people, rejoice. Be enlightened, be enlightened, o new Jerusalem, for the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
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3 weeks ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Byzantine Liturgy |Gregory DiPippo
One of the most magnificent features of the Byzantine Rite is a group of hymns known as the Paschal stichera. These are sung at Orthros and Vespers each day of Bright Week, as the Easter octave is called, and thenceforth on the Sundays of the Easter season, and on the Leave-taking of Easter, the day before the Ascension. As with all things Byzantine, there are variants in local usage; and they are also often sung during the Divine Liturgy in Eastertide while Communion is distributed.
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3 weeks ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Byzantine Liturgy |Gregory DiPippo
Following up on Monday’s post about the service known as the Paschal Hour in Byzantine Rite, here is the text of another special rite, which is done after Vespers on Easter day itself. It is brief enough to show the whole of it with just one photograph from the Pentecostarion, the service book which contains all the proper texts of the Easter season. Christ is risen!
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3 weeks ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Byzantine Liturgy |Gregory DiPippo
In the Roman Rite, the minor Hours of Easter and its octave are celebrated according to a very simple and archaic form, which consists solely of the psalmody, the antiphon Haec dies, and the prayer, with the usual introduction and conclusion.
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3 weeks ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Byzantine Liturgy |Gregory DiPippo
Let all partake of the feast of faith. Let all receive the riches of goodness. Let no one lament their poverty, for the universal kingdom has been revealed. Let no one mourn their transgressions, for pardon has dawned from the grave. Let no one fear death, for the Saviour’s death has set us free.
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4 weeks ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Byzantine Liturgy |Gregory DiPippo
For how shall we be able to know, I and thy people, that we have found grace in thy sight, unless thou walk with us, that we may be glorified by all people that dwell upon the earth? And the Lord said to Moses: This word also, which thou hast spoken, will I do: for thou hast found grace before me, and thee I have known by name. And he said: shew me thy glory.
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1 month ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Byzantine Liturgy |Gregory DiPippo
One of the most powerful services of the extremely rich Byzantine Holy Week is Matins of Great and Holy Friday, known as the Matins of the Twelve Gospels. This consists of the (mostly) regular order of Matins as it is celebrated in Lent, into which Twelve Gospel readings of the Lord’s Passion are added at various points. I am very grateful to my friend Fr. Herman Majkrzak for agreeing to share with NLM this beautiful reflection which he wrote about it a few days ago.
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1 month ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Byzantine Liturgy |Gregory DiPippo
If you are planning on being in Rome for Holy Week during this Jubilee year, you should certainly make an effort to attend services in the Byzantine Rite at the church of St Anthony the Abbot on the Esquiline Hill, the Russian Greek-Catholic church in urbe.
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1 month ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Byzantine Liturgy |Gregory DiPippo
The feast of St Mary of Egypt has never been on the General Calendar, but it is often found in the supplements of the Missal and Breviary “for certain places.” April 2 is the most common date, but in several places it was kept on April 9, and in the Byzantine Rite it is on April 1.
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1 month ago | 
newliturgicalmovement.org | Byzantine Liturgy |Gregory DiPippo
In the Byzantine liturgy, each of the Sundays of Lent has a special commemoration attached to it. The first Sunday is known as the Sunday of Orthodoxy, because it commemorates the defeat of iconoclasm and the restoration of the orthodox belief in the use of icons; many churches have a procession in which the clergy and faithful carry the icons, as seen in this video from the Sacred Patriarchal Monastery of St Irene Chrysovalantou, in Astoria, New York.
