КНИГИ БОГОСЛУЖЕБНЫЕ

1. The darkness of the Slavic church books and the need for their clarification Ushinsky writes that among the motivations for falling away into the Shtunda, those who have gone astray cite, among other things, the fact that in our church you cannot understand anything that they read and sing. And this is not due to poor execution, but because what is being read is itself dark. He writes that he was stumped when some troparion or stichera was read to him and he was asked to say a thought. I couldn’t say anything: it was very dark. Two ladies from St. Petersburg wrote to me the same thing about this... with Pashkov everything is clear, with us - nothing. Nothing - a lot; and that there is a lot that is incomprehensible is fair... The ruling power should take care of this... and clarify the liturgical books... leaving, however, the Slavic language and readings from the Old Testament at Vespers... translation from 70 interpreters... Start talking about this (7, p. 155). Liturgical books, according to their purpose, must be changeable. Our hierarchs are not bored by the ambiguity, because they cannot hear while sitting in the altar... We should force them to read the services at least for Epiphany (7, p. 155)!!! 2. The need for a new translation of liturgical books, Prologue and teachings The liturgical books need to be translated again so that everything is clear. Pashkovites shout: everything in your church is unclear; Stundists too, and there are quite a few of our own. Whoever begins to read or listen attentively will certainly end with the exclamation: what is this!.. Bishops and priests do not all hear what is read and sung while sitting in the altar. That’s why they don’t know how dark the books are, and this is for no other reason than because of an outdated translation. And we need to understand the translation. Only the readings - Proverbs - are by no means understood from the Russian Bible, but from 70. Now there is a schism. And I will go first (7, p. 158). How do you judge Prologue?! The book is wonderful for its purpose: short (and sometimes complete) lives of the saints of the day... and several teachings and edifying cases... But in terms of language... it’s not good for anything - even for a bench. As the fathers put it together, so it is. And unreadable. It is also necessary to translate and publish it in Russian... or in Slavic-Russian - in the style of St. Demetrius, as well as liturgical books (7, p. 158). There is a Book of Brief Teachings, a collection of holy fathers. The Holy Fathers have already been translated into Russian. But the Synod keeps printing them according to the old, incomprehensible translation. It is necessary to collect them in Russian, changing here and there and adding to them (or compile a completely new collection according to that model. All the dogma and all the moral teaching are there) (7, p. 158). Both of these books, the Prologue and the short teachings, are edifying... And they are read in church (in our country, at least)... often you will not understand anything (7, p. 159). You might be interested in: