..can a Tonsured Reader lead services at a funeral home or gravesite when a priest or deacon are not available?...are there any texts available ?...thank you...
Actually, deacons can't "lead services" either - they only act as protos or "senior reader" in a reader's service, by virtue of being a higher order of clergy....
Exactly what service are you proposing to serve? Except within my own home, as a tonsured reader I never serve a "readers service" without my priest's specific...
Where should the reader (assuming he ordained & tonsured) be for the recitation of the Six Psalms in Orthros? At the chanter's stand or at the center of the...
Please keep in mind that often the priest also does not know the answer and this is why some people are asking the questions. A good friend of mine is a...
Middle of the church. As would anyone reading them, from what I've seen. Rdr. James PS Ask your priest, or the dean. ... From: Reader Andreas Sent: Tuesday,...
Very well put. I have sometimes noticed that priests can often give decisions when you are looking for answers, if that makes sense. If one's not careful the...
... In this case it's not so much a matter of asking the priest what's best to do - it's just the practical fact that we as readers are not supposed to serve...
Does anyone have the Exapostilarion(s) for the Sunday of All Saints of North America (Sunday II after Pentecost). I'm looking for one with traditional-style...
Orthodox ReadersOur Saviour, the Dayspring from the East, has sent you out as rays of light, and those who were in darkness and shadow have found the Truth....
How many readers do a full vigil in their parish? How many attend? How many people help you in the service with reading and or singing. Do you have a choir...
Where I now attend, we rarely do full vigils. The ones we do occur on major feast days and even those are abbreviated. A couple of churches I used to attend...
Hi Timothy, We've done full vigils in the past on Saturdays, we've moved to doing Matins, but on major weekday feasts we do Vigil and then Liturgy the next...
Thanks for the response! I also should have asked how many have readers services in parishes where they do not have a priest in charge or where a priest...
In a week the small mission in which I serve will be moving into our own location (previously in a hospital chapel), and our plan is to begin having reader's...
Hi Rdr. Joseph, I've served in Missions where a priest visited once a month and we did Typika the other weeks. It was hard to get some people out for it, but...
... We have Vespers most evenings at 6 p.m. About half the time there's a priest; the rest of the time I serve reader Vespers. On weekdays where there's no...
Does anyone remember the tradition of reading (the hours?) overnight in the church when the reposed in the Lord is resting (inside the church), awaiting the...
George/Yuri wrote, Does anyone remember the tradition of reading ... overnight in the church when the reposed in the Lord is resting (inside the church), ... ...
According to Greek practice, the Gospels are read in the vigil for a priest or bishop, and the Psalter for everyone else. Prayers for the reposed are ...
The practice has become very rare here in Finland, but I remember that when my brother died ten years ago, the funeral was during Great Lent, on the day after...
You've really hit the nail on the head, Steve, and this is the hardest thing to get our regulars to understand: visitors will not be impressed by an empty...
Yes, it is a Russian tradition to continiously to read the Psalter over the deceased from the time the body has been prepared to the time of the funeral....
Yes, this is true in ROCOR which I learned the custon of reading the Psalter over the dead. Family and friends would take turns in reading for the deceased. In...
Reader Timothy wrote, in part, ... In the Church Slavonic Psalter their are special troparia and a prayer that is read for each Kathisma which is not available...
Thanks didn't know that was available. I have a unpublished version that was translated from Slavonic. I'll have to buy one to compare. Rdr Timothy tadros ...
Apparently there has been no activity on this list. What a shame! Although I am now a Deacon, I am still very interested in the role of the Reader and of the...
... We're still here. But busy these days. :-) I think you would do better with a more holistic view of the "minor orders" in general. The present-day...
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