Saint Therese Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 It seems must be the liturgical color for Palm Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted March 28, 2010 Author Share Posted March 28, 2010 Flowery (Palm) Sunday - Entrance into Jerusalem - celebrated at Christ the Savior Sobor in Moscow: [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/28/1233593738/2NOV_7170(1).jpg[/img] The Patriarch arrives for the liturgical service [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/28/1233593736/2NOV_7191(2).jpg[/img] The Patriarch wearing the white Klobuk and green Mantiya, which signify his office [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/28/1233593742/6Z7V0006(3).jpg[/img] Headscarves are commonly worn by women in the Russian Orthodox Church during liturgical worship [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/28/1233593740/6Z7V0015(4).jpg[/img] The Patriarch, now fully vested for the divine service, blesses the people with the dikirion and trikirion [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/28/1233593778/6Z7V0031(5).jpg[/img] Behind the Patriarch are the Royal Doors that lead from the vestibule into the main body of the Church, which is properly called the Sanctuary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Adam Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 (edited) It is entirely impossible to take you seriously with your current avatar. Then to combine it with these beautiful pictures... Thankfully there are still beautiful Roman churches and beautiful liturgies. Edited March 28, 2010 by Brother Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted March 28, 2010 Author Share Posted March 28, 2010 [quote name='Brother Adam' date='28 March 2010 - 09:15 AM' timestamp='1269789358' post='2081955'] It is entirely impossible to take you seriously with your current avatar. Then to combine it with these beautiful pictures...[/quote] The Bunchie is simply blown away - quite literally - by the pictures of the worship at Christ the Savior Sobor. [quote name='Brother Adam' date='28 March 2010 - 09:15 AM' timestamp='1269789358' post='2081955'] Thankfully there are still beautiful Roman churches and beautiful liturgies.[/quote] Very true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted March 28, 2010 Author Share Posted March 28, 2010 More pictures of the celebration of Flowery Sunday: [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/28/1233593776/6Z7V0036(6).jpg[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/28/1233593790/6Z7V0089(11).jpg[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/28/1233593788/2NOV_7366(12).jpg[/img] The Patriarch standing at the Beautiful Gates of the Iconostasis (n.b., the Beautiful Gates are sometimes called the Holy or Royal Doors) In this picture you can also see that the Patriarch is standing upon the circular eagle rug [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/28/1233593762/2NOV_7438(13).jpg[/img] The Patriarch standing in front of the Patriarchal Throne in the Altar area [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/28/1233593760/2NOV_7450(14).jpg[/img] A picture of the Altar looking west through the Beautiful Gates into the Sanctuary (the main body of the Church) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Era Might Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 (edited) [quote name='Apotheoun' date='28 March 2010 - 11:37 AM' timestamp='1269790635' post='2081960'][img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/28/1233593762/2NOV_7438(13).jpg[/img] [/quote] I'm not a huge fan of some of the Russian painting styles. It seems that the Russians tend to have more realism than traditional iconography. Perhaps this is a Western influence? Edited March 28, 2010 by Era Might Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IgnatiusofLoyola Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 [quote name='Brother Adam' date='28 March 2010 - 10:15 AM' timestamp='1269789358' post='2081955'] It is entirely impossible to take you seriously with your current avatar. Then to combine it with these beautiful pictures... Thankfully there are still beautiful Roman churches and beautiful liturgies. [/quote] Thank-you Brother Adam. I've been trying to come up with a good argument to convince Apo to change his avatar. In the lame forum, I tried to convince Apo that the blood in his avatar was making me faint. But, of course I was kidding (and he knew that) so no change. I have no influence over Apo, but maybe you do. Thank-you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffpugh Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 I just saw an old lady with pussywillows getting off the bus a stop after I got on. I recall a Greek orthodox church near the EF parish I go to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted March 28, 2010 Author Share Posted March 28, 2010 [quote name='Era Might' date='28 March 2010 - 11:05 AM' timestamp='1269795936' post='2081995'] I'm not a huge fan of some of the Russian painting styles. It seems that the Russians tend to have more realism than traditional iconography. Perhaps this is a Western influence? [/quote] Yes, the images are influenced by Western art forms. During the reigns of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great the Russian government tried to adopted a more Western approach in practically every aspect of the nation's life, civil and religious; and the original Christ the Savior Sobor, which was built after the Napoleonic Wars, was a continuation of the policy of those two imperial rulers. Now, as I indicated in another thread, [url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=103803"]Stalin ordered the destruction of Christ the Savior Cathedral in 1931[/url], and so when the Russian Orthodox Church received permission to reconstruct Christ the Savior Sobor in the 1990s the Patriarch and the Holy Synod decided to build the new Church of Christ the Savior as an exact replica of the Church destroyed during the period of communist oppression, and that included the interior iconography, which is a mix of Byzantine and Western styles (often called [i]Neo-Byzantine[/i]). Now, I am sure that there were many reasons why this course of action was taken, but no doubt one of the reasons was so that people could say that . . . mystically the resurrection of Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow (and the reconstruction of other historic Churches and monasteries throughout the nation) signifies the resurrection of Christianity in all of Russia, while also symbolizing the failure of the communists, who tried to kill the Church by making many millions of men and women into martyrs and passion bearers for Christ, and who went even beyond the horror of mass murder by trying to wipe out any evidence of the existence of Christianity in Russia by destroying and desecrating the holy temples that had been consecrated by the Orthodox Church to the worship of the Blessed Trinity. Thus, in a sense - at least from an Orthodox viewpoint - the communists made the Church buildings themselves into symbolic martyrs and passion bearers of Holy Orthodoxy, and because of that evil iconoclastic activity one could say that the rebuilding of these structures is a second Triumph of Orthodoxy over the enemies of Christ. Finally, as far as most new Churches are concerned, and more than 29,000 Churches have been built or restored since the fall of communism in 1991, those buildings are primarily being constructed according to traditional Byzantine Slav design, with iconography that follows the iconographic tradition of the Holy Fathers, instead of the Neo-Byzantine style evident in Christ the Savior Cathedral. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted March 31, 2010 Author Share Posted March 31, 2010 [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOU4PuItmPo[/media] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted March 31, 2010 Author Share Posted March 31, 2010 An ordination during the liturgy on Flowery Sunday (28 March 2010): [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/28/1233593764/2NOV_7539(16).jpg[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/28/1233593770/2NOV_7547(17).jpg[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/28/1233593768/2NOV_7559(18).jpg[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/28/1233593774/2NOV_7602(19).jpg[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/28/1233593772/2NOV_7620(20).jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted March 31, 2010 Author Share Posted March 31, 2010 Great Monday (29 March 2010) liturgy of the presanctified gifts at the cathedral of the Resurrection (Pokrovsky convent): [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595307/9-54__MG_7697.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595201/10-34_4Z7V0043.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595305/10-08__MG_7703.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595223/10-23__MG_7715.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595309/10-19__MG_7706.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595311/10-17_4Z7V0011.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595217/10-20_4Z7V0012.JPG[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted March 31, 2010 Author Share Posted March 31, 2010 More images from Pokrovsky convent (Great Monday): [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595227/10-31__MG_7720.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595229/10-32__MG_7725.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595231/10-32_4Z7V0039.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595207/10-35__MG_7734.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595215/10-41_4Z7V0072.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595213/10-41__MG_7780.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595255/10-48_4Z7V0095.JPG[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted March 31, 2010 Author Share Posted March 31, 2010 More images from Great Monday services: [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595253/10-49_NOV_7979.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595261/11-11_4Z7V0119.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595243/11-16_NOV_8074.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595245/11-23_4Z7V0161.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595153/11-24_4Z7V0171.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595161/11-33_NOV_8185.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595139/11-51_NOV_8202.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595141/12-49_4Z7V0213.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595147/12-53_4Z7V0219.JPG[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apotheoun Posted March 31, 2010 Author Share Posted March 31, 2010 Images from the vigil service for Great Tuesday at St. John the Baptist monastery (Moscow): [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595411/6Z7V0001.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595409/2_MG_7804%20copy.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595415/2_MG_7807.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595413/6Z7V0030.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595419/6Z7V0043.JPG[/img] [img]http://www.patriarchia.ru/data/2010/03/29/1233595417/2_MG_7824.JPG[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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