Saint Melangell Pilgrimage Mass 2024

On 27th April, 2024, a group of members and friends of our parish were welcomed to the shrine church of our heavenly patroness in rural Wales, where we spent the day in prayer and fellowship.
We were privileged to celebrate the Divine Liturgy according to Saint Germanus at the ancient shrine housing the relics of Saint Melangell of Powys, in the very place where she lived, prayed, and worked out her salvation.
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[@bondsjaredbonds]

Glory to God!

[@LeutherGreengager-ip1uw]

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[@richardgreiner9264]

Heavily Easternized Liturgy .

[@fathercyprian]

It is and it isn't at the same time.
When the Gallican Mass (as well as the liturgical rite more broadly) was restored for Orthodox use in the 20th century, the sources were two detailed expositions of the Mass in 6th/7th-century Paris, ancient liturgical manuscript sources, the writings of such fathers as Ss Caesarius of Arles and Ireneaus of Lyons, and some pronouncements of certain local councils.
However, it was also decidedly not intended to be an exercise in liturgical archaeology but the provision of a rite for the Western Orthodox Christians of modern times. So certain well-known and loved texts from Byzantine Orthodox worship were incorporated, in keeping with the cross-fertilisation that has been a hallmark of various rites from time immemorial. This is perhaps more pronounced during Paschaltide, so your observation is not without justification. "The Angel Cried" in our rite is properly chanted to Gregorian tone 6. However, Maxime Kovalevsky's tone 6 arrangement is too complicated for the abilities of our parish at the moment, so we use the popular Balkirev setting.
All of that having been said, there are elements of the Gallican Mass that are often incorrectly identified by the casual observer as being eastern, when they are in fact nothing less than the ancient practice of the Western church. It is easy to forget that liturgiucally, the West incorporated much more than just the Roman rite, and just because certain elements are not Roman (such as the Trisagion at the Mass, the liturgical fans, the waving of the chalice veil over the Gifts, among others) it does not negate the fact that they were very much part of worship of the Western church in the first millennium.

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@@fathercyprian Thank you very kindly for your consideration of my comment .