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OR THE Final portion of the psalm, the music changes completely. It becomes nearly a triumphal march. The choir in which I sang these verses took them at Great Speed. We were singing so loud as to break the rafters – and still hold up the roof. Liturgically, this is the turning point. Even though [...]

HE MOURNING continues, but the imagery gets more triumphant. Some of the lines parallel the earlier section. I’m glad to find this translation on a Greek site as I’ve only heard them sung once (in the Cathedral in SF) and my experience in Antiochian and GOA parishes led me to believe that they were only [...]

N THE Eastern Rite, Holy Saturday has two liturgical contexts: one is the Harrowing of Hell – Jesus Christ, God incarnate, descends to the dark places. As God he is at once “eternally on the throne with his Father, in the tomb in his human body and in Hell with his human soul” uniting all [...]