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Saturday night... I stayed up until 4am...I think.
Our Pascha service started at 11:30.
Woke up at... 9 on Sunday.
Drank the wrong wine at the festivities that night, so Sunday morning I was all congested.
something to do with age... some wine will make me super congested... and some wine is just fine.
BUT! CHRIST IS RISEN!
oh my! It was a comedy of errors! So lovely to be in a congregation where we just laugh about it! My voice completely left me before the midnight service was over... TRULY... I could barely squeak out a note! I was supposed to be leading the choir!! And I am standing there... and I KNOW the staring note... and out comes this rasping squeak! 
Luckily it only happened on songs that were familiar to other people... so stuff still got sung!
I think the comment was something along the lines of "our enthusiasm was clear"
-snicker-
And sheesh! I forgot to stick candles in the paschal baskets... the priest forgot to put the festal bells on the censer (no bells on the censer for all of lent)... until during a censing a congregant told him to put them on.... the altar boy forgot to change to the festal incense until... again... a congregant mentioned it (we use frankincense and myrrh during lent, then switch to floral for the feast).... I TOTALLY forgot how dark it would be at the Procession around the church... and couldn't both SEE the music and walk without tripping! So... yep, no singing at the Procession around the church... at least the bell ringing was great! AND everyone's candles got blown out in the Procession!!! I think 2 people managed to keep their candles lit!!! Poor priest had his Paschal candle blow out!
So we get around the church, back to the front door... Everyone had to get their candles relit, so there at the doors of the church we were all scrambling to get all candles relit, so that we could start the outside the church part. One of my favorite parts, the priest bangs on the door of the church.. shouting out the end part of psalm 24.
Priest says a part "Lift up your gates, O ye princes; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting gates, and the King of glory shall enter in", and my eldest still in the church bellows out "who is this King of glory?" Anyway.. it goes on... but so cool!
It was lovely... bummer I couldn't sleep until noon!
Service on Sunday was at a lovely 4pm!
Oh... I had forgotten how old fashioned some of our translations are! The priest was blessing the paschal baskets... and he blessed the "curdled milk"! Later on the blessing says "flesh-meats, cheese and eggs".... so duuuuuuude..... then what is the "curdled milk"? Rotten milk?!?!? Can't be! no one would bring rotten milk to feast on! Kiefer? Yogurt? At first I thought "curdled milk" = cheese... but later he SAYS "cheese"!!!!
Ah! What a hoot!
Our Pascha service started at 11:30.
Woke up at... 9 on Sunday.
Drank the wrong wine at the festivities that night, so Sunday morning I was all congested.
something to do with age... some wine will make me super congested... and some wine is just fine.BUT! CHRIST IS RISEN!
oh my! It was a comedy of errors! So lovely to be in a congregation where we just laugh about it! My voice completely left me before the midnight service was over... TRULY... I could barely squeak out a note! I was supposed to be leading the choir!! And I am standing there... and I KNOW the staring note... and out comes this rasping squeak! Luckily it only happened on songs that were familiar to other people... so stuff still got sung!
I think the comment was something along the lines of "our enthusiasm was clear"
-snicker-And sheesh! I forgot to stick candles in the paschal baskets... the priest forgot to put the festal bells on the censer (no bells on the censer for all of lent)... until during a censing a congregant told him to put them on.... the altar boy forgot to change to the festal incense until... again... a congregant mentioned it (we use frankincense and myrrh during lent, then switch to floral for the feast).... I TOTALLY forgot how dark it would be at the Procession around the church... and couldn't both SEE the music and walk without tripping! So... yep, no singing at the Procession around the church... at least the bell ringing was great! AND everyone's candles got blown out in the Procession!!! I think 2 people managed to keep their candles lit!!! Poor priest had his Paschal candle blow out!
So we get around the church, back to the front door... Everyone had to get their candles relit, so there at the doors of the church we were all scrambling to get all candles relit, so that we could start the outside the church part. One of my favorite parts, the priest bangs on the door of the church.. shouting out the end part of psalm 24.
Priest says a part "Lift up your gates, O ye princes; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting gates, and the King of glory shall enter in", and my eldest still in the church bellows out "who is this King of glory?" Anyway.. it goes on... but so cool!
It was lovely... bummer I couldn't sleep until noon!
Service on Sunday was at a lovely 4pm!
Oh...
I had forgotten how old fashioned some of our translations are! The priest was blessing the paschal baskets... and he blessed the "curdled milk"! Later on the blessing says "flesh-meats, cheese and eggs".... so duuuuuuude..... then what is the "curdled milk"? Rotten milk?!?!? Can't be! no one would bring rotten milk to feast on! Kiefer? Yogurt? At first I thought "curdled milk" = cheese... but later he SAYS "cheese"!!!!Ah! What a hoot!
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pray with me that he stays safe and makes a bundle. (And yeah, safe is more important than the money, but both sure would be nice.
