Posts By: irina

Service: 7 of 9  Time: 2:45  Total: 4:35  Grand total: 13:22 Crew:  Altar: Fr T and three acolytes. One, a teenage boy, only got into a sticharion after he’d read his Old Testament reading.  Choir: SSSAAT. Young Soprano directed the glorification when I was reading from the Book of Daniel.  Readers: young and older people from the

Service: 6 of 9  Time: 1:55  Total: 1:55  Grand total: 10:42 Crew: Altar: Fr T, hypodiakon and two acolytes; one the young man who has been in all the services and the other a young man who used to be in our parish as a boy (my godson’s elder brother, in fact) and still comes

Service: 4 of 9  Time: 1:45  Total: 4:19  Grand total: 7:32 Crew: Altar: Fr T + acolyte (mostly outside the altar though). Choir: SSAB, that is to say, a reader for every hour. Ukrainian Soprano read the Sixth Hour in Slavonic with great speed and accuracy, and I could understand just enough to read along

Service: 3 of 9  Time: 2:34  Total: 2:34  Grand total: 5:47 Crew: Altar: Fr T, Deacon V and acolyte (the same acolyte who has been serving the previous services, he’s assiduous!) Choir: SSAATB, meaning that the person who can’t keep themself from singing (I symphatise) and tends to fill in missing parts (I dislike) couldn’t

Service: 2 of 9  Time: 1:45 (estimated)  Total: 3:13 Crew: Altar: Fr T, hypodiakon, acolyte. Choir: AAB, so I sang the melody part almost throughout. It’s a mezzo part, and I really pushed the upper limits of my voice. Now I’m tired but not exhausted, a good sign. B is a baritone so we couldn’t

Service: 1 of 9  Time: 1:28, which seems astonishingly fast, but all of us (well, both of us) who were doing readings are fast readers. I had to keep a tight rein on the stichera because we tended to go too fast on those too, and that is bad for understandability.  Total: 1:28 Crew: Altar: