[Nina]

Will you be providing a source for the incipits of the Katavasias of the Theotokos or have I missed where those can be found?
Thank you,
Nina

[Nina]

Hello Peter,
I hope that you are feeling better.

Three items for Week 5:

1. There are two assignments in the Week 5 section. The first on the Lesson 6 page is to prepare Sunday Orthros for the hypothetical June 7 specifics, and the second on the Structure of Sunday Orthros page is to complete a Orthros template for next week’s Orthros service, using the standard cut for your jurisdiction. Which would you like completed?

2.This is my understanding of the rules for the Exapostelaria:

If there is no Exapostelarion for the Saint, there will be two chanted: the Eothinon Exapostelarion and its paired Theotokion.

If there is an Exapostelarion for the Saint, there will be three chanted: The Eothinon Exapostelarion, and then from the Menaion the Saint’s and the Theotokion paired to the Saint’s.

3. From the videos, the Great Doxology will be in the Mode of the Week when an Eothinon Gospel is read. For other Orthros Gospel readings, the Doxology will match the mode of the Doxastikon of the praises. The Orthros According to Violakis page instructs that the Doxology will be in the mode of the Doxastikon. Which of these should I use, since the mode of the week might not match the mode of the Doxastichon?

Thank you,
Nina

[Nina]

Hello,
My name is Nina Sluz (rhymes with blues), and I chant at All Saints Greek Orthodox Church in Peoria, Illinois. I am taking this course just for fun and to understand what is going on behind the curtain of the DCS.

[Nina]

There would be great benefits from revising the Typikon. The focus could be on resolving the known controversial practices that have been introduced and further adapting the services to the modern era, especially the issues created by the calendar change. These are some of the major reasons for the revisions that have developed throughout the centuries. We know that “change” can be a threatening concept to we Orthodox, so it has to be approached as opportunity for growth and development.

Accomplishing this would be the challenge given the range of practices throughout the different Orthodox jurisdictions. Maybe there needs to be a “Great Council” of protopsaltai to embark such a major project. Could it be a first foothold on unifying the Orthodox Archdioceses within the United States? It seems that the “System of the Typikon” by Fr. Konstantinos Papagiannis was an attempt to rectify these issues and maybe should be adopted.

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