Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Festal Vigils

Jeff, these are the coolest services of the Orthodox Church a non-Orthodox can attend. They are the Festal Vigils. What makes them cool? You'll have to come and find out.
6 PM, September 7 - Festal Vigil for the Nativity of the Theotokos
5:30 PM, September 13Festal Vigil for the Elevation of the Holy Cross (I have schhol this night so I can't go to this one.)



2 comments:

Huw Richardson said...

HOly Cross Vigil is AWESOME! WIth the four (five?) Lord Have Mercy 100x! It is one of my fave services of the year and I'm sorry to miss it at the Cathedral: it's fun to sing those Lord Have Mercys to that tune.

I'm not sure what we'll do in the Antiochian/Byzantine tradition.

Matt said...

I was looking at the wrong calendar. I get to go! I get to go!