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I saw the MCI prepared booklet for the RDL for the Easter season on the website. It appears that it gives as an option "Christ is risen" or returning to the regular responses "Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord...," "May our lips be filled..." and "Blessed be the name of the Lord now and forever." and "God grant them many years."
Just curious as to how many parishes return to the "regular" responses after Easter day or how many continue to use "Christ is risen" in all these places?
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I would have to go back thru my records to find the exact year, but the directions in the MCI booklet are I believe based on a letter of direction issued by +Archbishop Judson. All "Christ is Risen" responses only apply during Bright Week. After that, regular responses are indicated except for "We have seen the true light ..." and the dismissal until Ascension. There are a couple other exceptions such as Mid-Pentecost. I know of more than a few priests that choose to ignore this directive or have not passed on this information to their cantors. But documentation does exist.
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At St. Nicholas we follow a directive from Bishop John, which is totally consistent with the green service book. Both dictate returning to the regular responses as you describe them except for "We have seen the true......"
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Maybe this is a question more for the MCI forum, but does anyone know where the tradition of returning to the regular, ordinary time responses after Easter week came from and why? What about the OCA, ACROD, ROCOR, the GOA, or the AOA, do any of those churches do this as well?
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The Paschal greeting is a custom among Orthodox Christians, consisting of a greeting and response. Instead of "hello" or its equivalent, one is to greet another person with "Christ is Risen!" The response is "Truly, He is risen!" (or "Indeed, He is risen!"). This greeting is used during liturgical services and informally at other times, starting with the feast of Pascha and lasting until Ascension, the period known as Paschaltide.
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I'm not talking about the greeting and response, "Christ is risen. Indeed he is risen." I'm talking about replacing certain hymns and responses in the DL with the Paschal Troparion, "Christ is risen from the dead, by death..."
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Doh! Should have read more closely. Q. What very common prayer do we NOT say during Bright week, and a long while thereafter, and then begin saying again after another feast?
A. The prayer to the Holy Spirit, "O Heavenly King", said in almost every Orthodox prayer service is NOT said from Paschal matins (the first service of the Pentecostarion), which begins at midnight on the Sunday of Pascha, until the Vespers service for Pentecost. Anywhere this prayer occurs it is omitted, and until Ascension Thursday, is substituted with the Paschal troparion (Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life), sung three times. We are like the Apostles during this period, "waiting" for the Holy Spirit to come, and the absence of this prayer makes a strong statement of our profound need for the Holy Spirit.
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We continue to use "Christ is risen" in all the places.
BDW agrees with Metropolitan Judson's directive "Christ is risen" at the beginning, in place of "We have seen the true Light" and at the Dismissal only.
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I saw the MCI prepared booklet for the RDL for the Easter season on the website. It appears that it gives as an option "Christ is risen" or returning to the regular responses "Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord...," "May our lips be filled..." and "Blessed be the name of the Lord now and forever." and "God grant them many years."
Just curious as to how many parishes return to the "regular" responses after Easter day or how many continue to use "Christ is risen" in all these places? I believe it depends on the parish priest. "As the priest goes, so does the Typica"! Christos Voskrese! Voistinnu Voskrese! Ung
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