Eastern Peeps...

[Anastasia13]

What kind of churches do you go to most often? Russian? Antiochian? Greek? ROCOR?

 

And how does your church say "Lord have mercy"?

 

"Der Voghormia" is Armenian for "Lord have mercy."

[marigold]

All of the above. Mostly Antiochian though, so 'ya Rab urham' and 'Lord have mercy'.

[1054]

I jump around a lot too.  When in a Russian or ROCOR church we say (or rather the choir says): "Gospodi pomilui."  At the Greek church it's: "Kyrie eleison."  Which, I would venture to say, is amongst English speaking Orthodox the widest known foreign language for "Lord have mercy".  Almost every church I've gone to, be it Bulgarian, Romanian, Russian, Antiochian --- they all know "Kyrie eleison", but not necessarily any of the other languages, or at least it's not as common for the other languages to be used. 

[ChristianGirlForever]

I go to an OCA parish, and, so, it's in English. Believe it or not, most of the nearby churches are in English, be they OCA, ROCOR, or Greek. The reasoning is that the Americans should be able to understand
what they are praying.

Edited July 18, 2014 by ChristianGirlForever

[marigold]

Heck, everybody knows Kyrie Eleison.

[ChristianGirlForever]

Heck, everybody knows Kyrie Eleison.

Haha, too true. It's even in Bach's Mass in B Minor.

[beatitude]

I attend a Melkite Catholic Mass when I'm in Bethlehem. Liturgy is in Arabic, so for Lord have mercy, we sing ya Rab erham.

[1054]

Heck, everybody knows Kyrie Eleison.

 

Most do, I agree, however I've come across many who had never heard it.  Better to tell them sincerely instead of embarrassing them.  :)