http://wdtprs.com/blog/2008/06/benedict-xvi-and-bartholomew-i-together-the-creed-in-greek/

You need to scroll down the page to find the link to hear them recite the Creed together in Greek. This is great! The Greek text is also posted there so you can follow along!

Benedicite!

Thanks for posting this link!

Next time, it would be nice to hear them both recite the Creed together in Latin - without the interpolation.

Fr. Serge

Dear Fr. Serge:

Yes, but not in Rome!

The Creed in Latin should be recited together by the EP (or his representative) and Rome's representative to the celebration of St. Andrew's next patronal feast in Istanbul/Constantinople.

Just to reciprocate Pope Benedict's gesture of reciting the Creed in Greek with his All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartolomew, this year at the patronal feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in Rome.

Amado

Would sound good - but it would sound even better in Rome, with the Pope's own voice!

Fr. Serge

Thank you. I thought that the comments beneath the article were thought provoking and interesting to read. They were worth having a look at. They were also quite charitable. I thought this one was an interesting one:



The EP has an exceptional deep and resonant voice, and though the voices of Eastern clergy vs. Western clergy may be somewhat different in general, (as the poster points out), the only other Greek clergy I know who have *such* an exceptional deep and resonant voice as the EP are: the former Archbishop Spyridon of America and my priest.

Truly, having heard each one celebrate a Divine Liturgy was a treat...

I have also heard such deep voices in Russian clergy.

Is the *general* difference in voices which the poster above alludes to: ethnic or liturgic or a combination of both?

Alice

Alice,

I do not know but the dominate bass tones as compared with the domnate tenor tones in the RC and in Protestantism was immediately apparent to both my wife and I. We at first thought that there must be some musical instrument playing these lower notes. Then we realized that not only were the tones lower but men were actually singing. It was and is a delight to both of us.

CDL

In P. I. Tchaikovsky's admittedly rather operatic music for the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, the priest is a tenor and the deacon a bass.

Many of the priests I have met in the Orthodox Church are tenors.

In fact, the choir has begun to depend on that, especially if the priest is on key. Whenever a visiting priest is a bass, it throws the choir off and they have to resort to using a tuning fork.

I heard from "Light of the East" (plug for Fr. Thomas!) that it's the language and the phonology? of the Russian and Slavic peoples that give them such deep singing voices.

Elizabeth Maria can you help?