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Today, the Bulgarian Church celebrates the Feast Day of the Blessed Apostles to the Slavs, the Thessalonikan brothers, SS Kyril and Metodi (or Cyril and Methodius, if you prefer). Born of a Greek father and a Bulgarian mother...May 24th is out Day of Letters, when we celebrate the Slavic alphabet and all the pastoral and missionary work the brothers and their seven disciples did!
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Z Praznikom! A great feast day for all Christians of the Slavic tradition. Also great apostles of Church unity, as these great saints received blessings from both Constantinople and Rome to do their mission work.
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May they intercede for all of the Churches, those from whence they came and those which they founded.
May they intercede that all divisions among us be healed and that all will know that we are Christians by our love for each other.
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Christ is Risen !!!
A blessed Feast Day to all!!!
It is wonderful that this is celebrated as the Day of Letters. Thank God for the gift of alphabets.
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Holy Father Cyril, Holy Father Methodius, pray to God for us!
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And as proclaimed by a Slav son, Pope John Paul II, Co-Patrons of Europe.
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This topic reminded me of one of our special hymns in honor of the Saints being celebrated. In the Ruthenian practice, as customary at the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of SS. Cyril & Methodius, the following hymn was often sung at the conclusion of services, in testimony to the patrons of the seminary and foundation of the Slavic Christian tradition.
I'm not sure of it's origin or if it is shared by our brethren in Halychyna (like most of our hymns), but I rather suspect that it is the work of noted choir director and composer at the seminary in the "golden days", Fr. Michael Starovskyj, who was responsible for many musical achievements there, including a excellent, large male choir of seminarians, recordings of which are occasionally still available.
The English translation, although imperfect I'm sure, is my own interpretation, more literal and without attention to rhyme. Since I'm not sure how to render the Cyrillic alphabet on the forum, it's difficult without it. I've tried to give a transliteration, easy to pick up and based on that commonly used in the Ruthenian books, but with attention to some sounds that cannot be recreated without resource to certain linguistic markings. Can someone explain perhaps, how to use Cyrillic characters here? I've seen it done, but haven't had success with it myself. Also, I have yet to see an official English rendering of this precious hymn. I site the text "na pamjat" - from memory, so bear with me if there are any discrepancies.
Hymn to SS. Cyril & Methodius
"Slava vam Bratja"
Slava vam Bratja, slavjan prosvititeli
Cerkvi Slavjanskoij, svjtyji Otci,
Slava vam pravdi, Christovoij uchiteli
*Slava vam hramoty, nashe tvortsi.
*(repeat last line)
Glory to you, Brothers, glorious Enlighteners
Of the Slavonic Church, our Holy Fathers
Glory to you teachers, of Christ's truth
*Glory to your memory, O our founders (establishers).
*(repeat last line)
A venerable tradition in the Western Ukrainian/Southwestern Rus' variety is our popular hymns, which have inspired the faithful for so long. This is yet another example of the ability to combine liturgical and theological themes with the cultural venue of our people.
God bless you all,
Fr. Joe
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A wonderful hymn! Tell the truth, I am not sure either on how to render Cyrillic letters so I am forced to resort to latinica which I don't particularly like as I fumble around wondering how a particular sound sounds like...writing long e-mail to Bulgarian friends can get quite annoying at times.... 
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AntonI, I don't myself read or write any language in Cyrillic, but thought perhaps you might be able to figure out the information on this website, which purports to have software for transliteration of email and websites: http://oude.dse.nl/ime/russify/index3.htm Good luck! Sophia
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Father, bless!
Yes, there is a setting of this in the Galician musical tradition. It is usually only sung on the feast days related to Sts. Cyril and Methodius.
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Dear Friends,
This day is also the feast of the Moravian Prince who received St Cyril and Methodius into his realm - St Rostislav, glorified by the Czech Orthodox Church.
The five disciples of the Apostles to the Slavs are:
St Kliment
St Naum
St Gorazd
St Angelar
St Sava
And the Serbian bishop of Prague who helped reestablish Orthodoxy there took the name of "Gorazd" and was martyred by the Nazis during the Second World War. He is now Saint Gorazd of Prague.
And let's also remember that it was St Photios the Great of Constantinople, Equal to the Apostles, who set Sts. Cyril and Methodius into Rus' in the first place!
Alex
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Of course the disciples had the sense to settle in Bulgaria...obviously men of taste....  :p  Anton
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Originally posted by AntonI: Of course the disciples had the sense to settle in Bulgaria...obviously men of taste.... :p
Anton With apologies for being off topic - but Anton it's easy to see that your exams are over now. I know it's nice being up in the clouds - but I hesitate to say it - you will have to come back down to earth like us lesser mortals Anhelyna
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Dear Anton, The Bulgarian Consul General of Toronto takes me to lunch with regularity! What could you tell us of the lesser known Bulgarian Saints, or recent glorifications? Alex
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Well, here are some...I know some of the stories but not indepth; for the rest, I'll try and hunt them down... And how the heck are you so well connected - it makes me being related to a Metropolitan seem pale in comparison.... --- St Hieromonk Anthymos the Athonite, full for Christ (+ 1867) celebrated on December 9th. He was a notes ascetic, full of prayer and faster and a healer amongst the monks of the Holy Mountain. St Nahum of Ohrid, equal to the Apostles (+ 910), one of the disciples of the Thessalonikan brothers. He is celebrated on December 9th. On November 25, we also celebrate St. Kliment of Ohrid, equal to the Apostles and Miracleworker (June 27, 916). On October 10th, the 26 Martyres of Zograph Monastery in the Holy Mount of Athos (22 monks and 4 layman). Burned by the crusaders in the monastery tower in 1284. September 30: St. Michael, metropolitan of Kiev (+992) A noted Bulgarian bringing much light to the Ukranians... September 16: St. Kyprianos (Tsamblak), Metropolitan of Kiev and Moscow (1389-1406) - we don't discriminate.  May 2nd: St. Boris-Michael, equal to the Apostles knyez, the Baptiser of the Bulgarian people (852-889, +907) January 20th: St. Efthymios, patriarch of Trnovo (1368-1393) The last leader before the fall of the empire to the Turks. One of the leading hysearchs (wrong spelling I know...); wise beyond many and apparently a good cook. This site is also useful as well... http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/tococb/newmartyrs.htm It is from the Old Calenderist Church so the whole site would be a bit biased... Still recovering from losing brain cells so not fully into research mode but thanks for showing an interest. I WILL do some serious research! Anton
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