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| The view from my car, before I entered |
Here is a video of the nave before the Service.
The Prayer of St. Ephraim is such a simple yet profound prayer. If we live in that prayer, we shall truly be Christian. It gets a bit hard for me to do the prostrations (and when I am home, I don't do them) but the prostrations certainly put your body where your soul is supposed to be!
I also love the "Let my prayer arise" hymn. I know by rubrics, it is supposed to be done by three clergy (and last year I witnessed that) but I confess I love it best when it is just Fr. Gary chanting it alone. The tone has a slow, mournful feel to it that matches with the spirit of lent so well.
I hope to go to more services during Lent and, by the way, whoever said fasting was easy, lied to me!
Presanctified Liturgies are the highlight of Lent for me, so so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteMimi, do you have three clergy sing "let my prayer arise?" Or just one?
ReplyDeleteI think the choir sings it, actually
ReplyDeleteThat's interesting! Gotta lo e diversity
ReplyDeleteThe choir sings it in my parish.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't able to attend Presanctified liturgies very much for my first several years after converting, and during that time I didn't know the service well enough to lose myself in it and to it. But in the last three years or so that has changed, and they really are the highlight of Lent for me, too, as Mimi says.