The Holy Mass
The Divine Liturgy of the Mass is celebrated according to the form commonly called the “Liturgy of St. Gregory,” and also known as the “Liturgy of St. Peter.” The form and much of the content of this liturgy antedates the time of Pope St. Gregory the Great (d. 604 A.D.).
Watch excerpts from the 2008 Christmas Midnight Mass on YouTube – Short version.
Watch excerpts from the 2008 Christmas Midnight Mass on Google Video – Long version.
As celebrated at Christminster, the Solemn or Sung Mass includes some features that passed out of common use after the schism of the West from Orthodoxy, including an Old Testament lesson, a litany, and the formal exchange of the Peace using the pax brede, a wooden plaque holding a metal cross inscribed with the word, “Peace,” kissed in turn by the priest, ministers, and each person present. On Sundays, Mass is always preceded by the memorial of Baptism known as the Asperges — or, in Paschaltide, the Vidi Aquam.
Click here for an introduction to the Divine Liturgy of the Mass.
We are a stavropegial monastic community of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) under the Omophorion of His Eminence, Hilarion, Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York.
