Vigil of the Annunciation
Great Compline, Litia, Matins and First Hour.
Time: 2:15
Congregation: started out 4 besides altar and choir, only one was left at the end. It was a Tuesday night, of course, when nobody expects to go to church.
Crew: Altar: Fr T on his own Choir: 3 women; we sang most of the plain stuff in unison.
Coordination: good!
Tunefulness: good enough, especially as we mostly ignored Fr T when his cold made his voice go all over the place.
Knees: standing too long made them unfit for kneeling, so I had to sit between the two instances of the prayer of St Ephrem the Syrian to let them relax.
Voice: normal with a little burr at the end.
Strangeness: the service has intrinsic strangeness. It starts very Lentish, though with God is with us in the elaborate setting; then it becomes an all-out feast for Matins, and goes back to Lent very abruptly with the First Hour cutting in before the proper end of Matins.
Posted: 27-Mar-2009 | /church/services | link | 0 comments



