Byzantine Back and Forth: Slavonic
A while ago I wrote a post talking about the exchanges you’ll commonly hear in the Byzantine circles (e.g. “Glory to Jesus Christ/Glory Forever”). In the Ruthenian Catholic Church you’ll often hear greetings and responses in Slavonic. I couldn’t find anywhere on the Internet to help learn them, so here’s my best attempt to list them all out phonetically and record them onto MP3….
Glory to Jesus Christ/Glory forever (Download)
“Slava Isusu Christu” (SLA-VA EE-SUE-SUE KRI-STU)
“Slava na Veeky” (SLA-VA NA VyEE-KEE)
An alternative dialect has it as
“Slava vo V’iki” (SLA-VA VO VyEE-KEE)
Christ is born/Glorify Him (Download)
“Christos Razhdajetsja” (KRIS-TOS ROZH-DA-YET-SyAH)
“Slaveety Yoho” SLA-VEE-TE YEAH-HO)
Christ is risen/Indeed He is risen (Download)
“Christos Voskres” (KRIS-TOS VOS-KRES)
“Voistynu Voskres” (VO-EE-STEE-NU VOS-KRES)
An alternative dialect has it as:
“Christos Voskrese” (KRIS-TOS VOS-KRES-E)
“Voistinu Voskrese” (VO-EE-STEE-NU VOS-KRES-E)
Christ is among us/He is and will be (Download)
“Chrystos Posredi nas” (KRIS-TOS POS-RE-DI NAS)
“I yest i budet” (YEST EE BOO-DET)
I hope this helps! If anyone out there is a Slavonic expert and would like to correct my pronunciation or phonetic spelling, please leave me a comment! Also, if you’d like to teach the world the responses in Greek, Russian etc, please let me know 🙂
No expert – but I’ll note that different priests from various parts of Europe will have slight variations.
Thanks, yeah, it seems to be a dialect thing.
Great post!
Did you mean to spell Christos in the last one with a K instead of the C you used for everything else?
Great catch – thanks 🙂
Excellent work. Thank you
Thanks Stefan and welcome to Restless Pilgrim!
(I had to check my own page to double-check the pronunciation before the Easter Vigil!)
Thanks for the greetings. I remember them from my days at my byzantine ruthenian catholic church.
Thanks so much for doing this! I don’t get to hear old church slavonic anymore and I really miss it! Great job!
You’re welcome 🙂
Thank you for this wonderful post! It is very helpful!
You’re welcome 🙂
Your post was really helpful. I enjoyed it. I learned that I have been mispronouncing most of it!