Eastern Orthodox services are still 90 percent or so singing--all but the sermon and, at my church, at least, the creed, the Lord’s Prayer and the prayer before communion.
Eastern Orthodox services are still 90 percent or so singing--all but the sermon and, at my church, at least, the creed, the Lord’s Prayer and the prayer before communion.
No, I mean PSALMS. This is what the church historically sang, directly carried over from synagogue worship. Not the singing of man-written songs but the inspired Word. The quote of Psalm 2 brought this to mind. What is surprising is that virtually nobody in the Protestant world understands that the Reformers sang psalms in their return to Biblically-commanded worship. Man made hymns didn’t happen until the 1700s & took off in the 1800s. Some In the Roman church chanted but they didn’t understand the Latin, they were just making sounds.
The metrical psalms were a central part of Reformed worship both on the continent & the British isles. A return to this is needed!
Yes, I know! That has not changed in Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Psalms are still sung in the Divine Liturgy. And everything we sing comes straight from Scripture.
Eastern Orthodox services are still 90 percent or so singing--all but the sermon and, at my church, at least, the creed, the Lord’s Prayer and the prayer before communion.
No, I mean PSALMS. This is what the church historically sang, directly carried over from synagogue worship. Not the singing of man-written songs but the inspired Word. The quote of Psalm 2 brought this to mind. What is surprising is that virtually nobody in the Protestant world understands that the Reformers sang psalms in their return to Biblically-commanded worship. Man made hymns didn’t happen until the 1700s & took off in the 1800s. Some In the Roman church chanted but they didn’t understand the Latin, they were just making sounds.
The metrical psalms were a central part of Reformed worship both on the continent & the British isles. A return to this is needed!
Yes, I know! That has not changed in Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Psalms are still sung in the Divine Liturgy. And everything we sing comes straight from Scripture.