Holy Shit
Dan Tague
undated (2010s?)
American
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An informant sent me this:
I have to say that the next generation might be worse than anything we have seen so far. Talk about diarrhoea of the mouth on a simple update of a service schedule. Check it out.
Date: 11 November 2011 (15.28 EST)
From: Alexander Rentel
To: (the usual cast of suspects, a lawyer friend said that I couldn’t post their names or e-mail addresses… but they’re not unknown to you, they truly aren’t)
Subject: Re: From SVS: Memorial Announcement
To all:
This note has a twofold purpose:
a) to remind everyone of our upcoming All-night Vigil
b) to provide a few more details
On Sunday, 20 November, we will celebrate the All-night Vigil culminating in the early hours of Monday morning, 21 November, with the celebration of the festal Divine Liturgy for the feast of the Entrance into the Temple of the Theotokos. The schedule for November 20-21, as has already been published, is as follows:
Sunday, 20 November
09.00: Divine Liturgy
17.00: Little Vespers
20.30: All-night Vigil
Monday, 21 November
Around 00.00: Festal Divine Liturgy
21.30: Little Compline
Weather permitting, we will make a solemn procession around the Chapel at the litya during Vespers. Between Great Vespers and Matins, we will read a sermon on the feast by St Gregory Palamas. Likewise, after the 6th ode of the canon, we will read the longer Synaxarion reading. While I anticipate that we will do the services in a much fuller sense than we normally celebrate, including the chanting of a full kathisma, reading both canons at Matins, chanting troparia on the Beatitudes at liturgy, we will make a few adjustments, notably we will start the liturgy after the singing of the Great Doxology at Matins. A few years ago when we celebrated a vigil in this way for the commemoration of St Nicholas, we ended Matins at around midnight and the liturgy around 1:30 am. I expect that even though we are starting a little earlier (so we can make a procession), the times for the services will roughly be the same. Needless to say, celebrating an All-night Vigil requires great effort on the part of all the participants. As such, I would especially ask that all those assigned to read, sing, and serve fulfil their ministry with all care and attentiveness. The hour will be late; the services will be long. It will be easy to give in to all sorts of temptation during this service. We should therefore redouble our efforts to stay focused on the task at hand. Such effort, such ascetical effort will be greatly rewarded. If there are any questions regarding this service, please contact me.
Fr AR
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Bozhe moi! I can see what the autocephalist fanatics did at the Sobor… they just droned on and on… they put every else to sleep! Here’s how I’d edit the announcement:
The schedule for 20-21 November is as follows:
Sunday, 20 November
09.00: Divine Liturgy
17.00: Little Vespers
20.30: All-night Vigil
Monday, 21 November
Around 00.00: Festal Divine Liturgy
21.30: Little Compline
We’ll process around the Chapel at the litya during Vespers, and between Great Vespers and Matins, we’ll read a sermon on the feast. Likewise, after the 6th ode of the canon, we’ll read the longer Synaxarion reading. We’ll start the Liturgy after the singing of the Great Doxology at Matins. If there are any questions regarding this service, please contact me.
Fr AR
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There! That does it and conveys all the actual information that was in the original without any of Rentel’s noxious logorrhoea. Where do they dig up such posturing phonies and charlatans? Did SVS and Syosset get a discount for purchasing them by the gross? God do save us from such self-serving shit. I wonder what Fr Basil Stroyen and Archbishop Kyprian Borisevich would’ve done to Rentel for his grandstanding? Perspirin’ minds wanna know…
Barbara-Marie Drezhlo
Friday 11 November 2011
Albany NY
