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StGeorge wrote:
Before I became Eastern Orthodox, I attended a Ruthenian Catholic parish for about 2 years. The hymnody was absolutely beautiful! And moreover, I felt that this was my heart praying to God. So, I ended up moving and attended an ACROD church. Their hymnody was pretty decent, and going from the Ruthenian church to the ACROD church was not much of a difference with the music. Some things were different, but it was mostly the same.
Now, I have moved again, and there is no ACROD church in this area. Only OCA churches. So, I'm going to an OCA mission church that is just up the road. Great priest, friendly congregation, but it's got a different feel to it. The hymnody is much different, too. It's not bad, actually quite well done, but it sounds a lot different to my ears and heart.
I don't have any videos from my particular churches, but the following two videos give a pretty good example of the difference I'm hearing:
ACROD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrpQHZIVbJU&feature=related
OCA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyS9sNKJ5MU
Again, I'm not saying one is better than the other. Both are well-done chant, but I can really get my heart into the first one but not the second. I know the ACROD chant is Carpatho-Rusyn prostopinije. What is the second?
Are there any OCA churches that sound like the ACROD church?
I live in Pennsylvania, in the middle of ACROD/Ruthenian Land (the national ACROD cathedral is only 60 miles from here), and our local parish is OCA. We use some ACROD music, yes, because it\'s a pan-ethnic parish, and there are lots of Rusyns here. I suspect that that\'s a local parish thing, though.
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