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Burying Alleluia, the song of gladness

We bury the Alleluias before Lent begins at St Chrysostom’s. Many years ago the custom took place a few week’s before Lent began – at the eve of the third Sunday before Lent, Septuagesima Sunday. Today we do this on … Continue reading

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Burying the Alleluias

What is this suspicious group of people doing outside church. They were seen there after Vespers this Sunday? Well, let’s step back a few centuries. From the earliest days of Christianity the early Church took the Hebrew word Alleluia into … Continue reading

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