SINGING! Check it out:Music of the Ukrainian Lutheran Church
#7 is A Mighty Fortress
#13 is the Lord's Prayer
#16 is the Nicene Creed (I think!)
#18 is Holy, Holy, Holy
#19 is Our God, Our Help
#21 is My Faith Looks up to Thee
A delightful blend of mostly Eastern, some Western music, and yet all with a very Eastern sound - as you'd expect. After all, this is the Church that worships according to this liturgy:
http://www.angelfire.com/ca4/saintsophiaseminary/liturgy.html
13 comments:
Thank you for posting that liturgy. What a beautiful example of Reformation sensibilities in the Church's "other lung" as JPII was wont to say.
+HRC
Sometime you must hear Pr. Webber's story of how this Church survived the communists.
Absolutely beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing!
What a nice rendition of "A Mighty Fortress"! Kinda wish I'd perused my college roommate's Russian textbook.
I especially love the first one. Very Kievan in its sound. I'm glad to see this site back up. Fr. Timothy May directed me to it a while back, but was not kept up or something because none of the files would play.
After Byzantine chant, Russian chant (znameny, Kievan, Novgorod) is the most beautiful expression of the Gospel.
Our dear friend, Rev. Dr. Slavik Horpynchuk, is pastor of this congregation. It is even better to hear this in person.
These guys are fabulous!
Early on as a Lutheran, my pastor (the one for whom I would be elder, not past elder!) put me on to these guys, and seeing them allowed me to see us in the West in the context of what reformation was all about, East and West.
What a magnificent Eastern liturgy they have indeed. A link to it has been on my blog since day one.
Kathy,
I'm jealous!!! I wish I could hear it in person. But would it mean I'd have to get on an airplane???
Thanks for sharing this
Ben et al.,
I'm glad to share them. As I told Kathy, I'd love to worship there in person. Speaking of Lutherans from other lands, here's interesting video of a Polish Lutheran Confirmation service. Rather raucous music, but I loved it nonetheless:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpOjMYNByU0&feature=related
Enjoy!
You can tell it's Lutheran rather than Orthodox just by the layout of the chancel.
Oh, that brings back memories...Pr. Horpynchuk does an excellent service.
And yes, #16 is the Nicene Creed. Definitely the hardest chant in the liturgy...I always got my words mixed up. ;-)
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