Virginian Presanctified Liturgy text to see use in ROCOR

http://www.lulu.com/shop/philip-ludwell/the-divine-and-holy-liturgy-of-st-gregory-the-dialogist/paperback/product-22061845.html
(ROCOR-EAD) - Just over 250 years ago, Colonel Philip Ludwell III (1716-1767) made the first complete English translation of the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts. He was a Virginian plantation owner, who in 1738 travelled to England to be received into Holy Orthodoxy at the parish in London under the authority of the Holy Governing Synod of the Russian Church. His translation of The Divine & Holy Liturgy of St. Gregory the Dialogist as it is Performed without a Deacon was most probably made in the summer of 1761, when he had again travelled to London with his three daughters. They were received into the Church there before the Presanctified Liturgy of Holy Wednesday, 1762.

Colonel Ludwell’s translation has recently been transcribed from the original handwritten text by Reader Nicholas Chapman and prepared for use with a deacon by Reader Peter Gardner. It has also been updated to conform to contemporary usage, and a short historical introduction added. This edition was published at the end of February by St. Polycarp Press, Alexandria, VA and can be purchased here.

The Liturgy will be served for the first time on the Friday, March 20, on the Fourth Week of Great Lent, at St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Washington, DC. It is hoped that other parishes will follow suit and perhaps also serve a panihida for Colonel Ludwell (who reposed on March 14/27, 1767), following the blessing given for this by His Eminence Hilarion, Metropolitan of Eastern America & New York, in December 2011.

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  1. Steve AllenMarch 12, 2015 at 12:54 PM

    This is awesome. Talk about American roots! This is the kind of thing (finding and recognizing and celebrating our history here on our own soil) that will, I think, finally lead to a united American (in both the cultural and geographical sense) Orthodox Church.

    Glory to God!

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  2. Matthew MMarch 12, 2015 at 7:12 PM

    The Divine & Holy Liturgy of the St. Gregory the Dialogist "Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts" was not. He was a Latin through and through, did not know or speak Greek. If it's not in Latin, he didn't write it. How long are you Orthodox going to perpetuate this lie? Just trying to show that the west was just as Orthodox as the East. Very funny.

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    1. AnonymousMarch 13, 2015 at 12:03 PM

      That's the title that's been attached to the service text, though. Do you also advocate renaming the sixth book of the Old Testament, on the grounds that Joshua son of Nun clearly did not write it?

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  3. Matthew MMarch 12, 2015 at 7:13 PM

    The Divine & Holy Liturgy of the St. Gregory the Dialogist "Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts" was not. He was a Latin through and through, did not know or speak Greek. If it's not in Latin, he didn't write it. How long are you Orthodox going to perpetuate this lie? Just trying to show that the west was just as Orthodox as the East. Very funny.

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    1. Byzantine, TXMarch 13, 2015 at 12:15 PM

      He wrote commentaries on it and so there was a misperception that he wrote it. I don't think anyone is trying to perpetuate anything. To wit, the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Parma or Passaic call it the Liturgy of St. Gregory.

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  4. AnonymousMarch 13, 2015 at 12:07 PM

    If anyone is planning on using this translation, I've also published music for it: http://www.lulu.com/shop/rdr-peter-gardner/music-for-the-presanctified-liturgy-as-translated-by-philip-ludwell/ebook/product-22079757.html

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  5. Nicholas KosarFebruary 10, 2016 at 9:23 PM

    A recording of this Presanctified Liturgy, along with further information, can be found on the new Ludwell.org website: http://www.ludwell.org/audio-lenten-liturgy-ludwell-translation-2015

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