Archive for January 8th, 2013

Nativity Orthodox Church Hymn songs for 6th against 7th January – in Russian, Ukrainian, Macedonian, Serbian, Arabic and Syriac language

Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

 

Nativity of the Lord Jesus Christ Mother mary bowing Christ orthdox icon

Today is third day of Nativity and as this year I'm celebrating Christmas feast with Serbian and Orthodox Church feast, it is also the 3rd day of Christ's birth for me too 🙂

On 6-th against 7-th January eve Nativity is celebrated in following nation wide Orthodox Church patriarchates:

 

 

  • Russian Orthodox Church
  • Serbian Orthodox Church
  • Ukrainian Orthodox Church
  • Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem (Patriarchate of Jerusalem)
  • Moldovan Orthodox Church

I'm eager to find as much as possible, about the Orthodox Church worldwide. So I took the time to collect the Church Hymns (Troparions and Kondaktions) which are sung in each of patriarchate Churches celebrating on 6th against 7th. Hopefully my little article will help other Orthodox Christians who want to know more how other nation-wide "sister" Orthodox Churches are celebrating Nativity's feast, as well as hear the identical Orthodox Church hymn performed in other languages.
 

Рождество Твое, Христе Боже наш (Rojdesto Tvoe Hriste Boje Nash – Russian Nativity Troparion)


 

Рождество Христово – Рождество Твое Христе Боже наш – Russian Christ Birth Troparion


 

Рождество Твое,Христе Боже наш…(хор Матфея) – Nativity troparion Ukraine (Ukrainian) hymn


 

РОЖДЕНСТВО ТВОЈЕ-Тропар Глас 4 – Serbian Chruch Christ's birth troparion


 

Дева Денес – Кондак на Рождество Христово * впнмј – Kondak Christ's birth Macedonian


 

An Arabic Christmas Carol (Byzantine Hymn of the Nativity) – Nativity Troparion in Syriac (Arabic)language

Byzantine Hymn for Nativity (in Arabic) ترتيل بيزنطي للميلاد المجيد

There are some other Christians part of the Oriental Orthodox Christian Churches  celebrating Christmas on 6-th against 7-th of January, those who I know of are;

  • Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
  • Armenian Apostolic Church
  • Ethiopian Orthodox Church (under the patriarchate of Coptic Church of Alexandria)

This two Churches areclose to Eastern Orthodox Church in teaching, but are not in official eucharistic communion. Probably there are also other Christian Churches celebrating on  6-th against 7-th of January and maybe I'm missing some Orthodox Church. I personally know a person from the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. Lets hope by the prayers of the Holy Theotokos Virgin Mary and all saints, soon the Oriental Orthodox Churches will come back and recognize decisions taken by Holy Fathers on 7 Orthodox Church ecumenical councils and then we all joyful sing together united in the faith of the Holy Apostles our Lord Jesus Christ's Nativity hymn !
 

If you happen to be reading my post and you belong to another Orthodox Church patriarchate I forgot to mention or don't know about, please drop a comment to which Church you belong and put a link to your Church sung Troparion and Kontakion.
Let us together rejoice with the joy of Angels and the wise East Magis who came to venerate the birth of King of Kings with gifts and gold.
 

Troparion (Tone 4) Your Nativity, O Christ our God, Has shone to the world the Light of wisdom! For by it, those who worshipped the stars, Were taught by a Star to adore You, The Sun of Righteousness, And to know You, the Orient from on High. O Lord, glory to You!

Kontakion (Tone 3) Today the Virgin gives birth to the Transcendent One, And the earth offers a cave to the Unapproachable One! Angels with shepherds glorify Him! The wise men journey with a star! Since for our sake the Eternal God was born as a Little Child!

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How to: Open Office view / edit .doc , .odt document in Full Screen mode

Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

Most programs, like Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Evince etc. etc. have as a default set F11 to bring the program to full screen.  It seems logical that the Linux substitute for Microsoft Office – Open Office should also go full screen while the user press F11, but weirdly it doesn't.

Pressing F11 in Open Office on my current Debian Squeeze (6.0.5) Stable Linux with OpenOffice.org 3 brings to screen Styles and Formatting customization dialog.

openoffice.org 3 debian linux F11 key press Styles and Formatting dialog screenshot

I'm not sure why openoffice is behaving like this, but one of my guess is cause OpenOffice was multiple times upgraded whenever I upgraded my Debian to latest stable with apt-get update && apt-get upgrade thus most likely still some keyboard bindings from older OO versions are affecting it. There are two ways to make OpenOffice display in Full-Screen.

1. Using OO menus

Use View -> Full Screen (F11)

As I said it is possible, the F11 key assignment is still reacting to old config assignment as in dialog for full screen the Shortcut key said to bring OO full-screen is F11.

2. Making OpenOffice FullScreen through keyboard

Keyboard config to bring OpenOffice to Full-Screen mode is a simultaneous key-press of:

CTRL + SHIFT + J

Pressing Ctrl + Shift + J again brings OO to its standard window.

Openoffice / Libreoffice run in full screen screenshot pic Debian squeeze Linux

Though I'm not sure I assume in newer OpenOffice versions now distributed under the LibreOffice name (cause of some Patents and Licensing issues), CTRL + SHIFT + J should bring up LibreOffice in Full-Screen too. I don't have at hand installed version of LibreOffice, so if someone can confirm for sure of Ctrl + Shift + J makes LibreOffice go FullScreen? Please drop comment.

Cheers 😉
 

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The Nativity – Рождество – animated movie re-telling the story of Christ’s birth (мультфильм Михаила Алдашина)

Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

с Рождеством Христовым !!!!

Рождество – The Nativity (мультфильм Михаила Алдашина)

It is  Natavity of Christ in most the Orthodox Christian world. It is common the feast is celebrated 3 days in us Orthodox. Many of the Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on 6-th against 7-th until 9-th of January because, many of national Orthodox Churches are still using Julian Calendar for calculating the dates and in Julian Calendar 24-th against 25-th of December is on 6-th against 7-th January in the Gregorian calendar. This year I'm celebrating with Serbian and Russian Orthodox Churches thus today I'm united with the joy of Serbs and Russians from the good news of Christ's birth. I know  little of Russian and Serbian culture, so while looking for Russian and Serbian songs, I've stumbled upon a beautiful Russian animation movie re-telling the Wondrous things around the Nativity of our Savior and King Jesus. The video is perfect for Christian families who want to teach, their kids to be good Christians and to know their faith well. I think parents should do their best to find for some non-violence filled kind animations like those to grow a sane psychic stable adults. Most of the videos nowadays on TV and  youtube, are very unsuitable for kids, and for purely psychological point of view they raise the kid psychic be filled with fears of unknown dangers, monsters and mythical un-existing heroes. Now in ex-communist countries like my own Bulgaria, many people's kids knows very well who is Batman, Spiderman, Ninja Turtles, Peter Pan, Ben 10 etc. but they have no idea who is their savior and true life giver Jesus. Christ's birth story and miracles surrounding it besides being an infallable truth, also have been told from parents to kids over the last 2000 years. Nowadays with advancement of technology, parents could be more lazy and  just play the story in youtube, but most of them are even lazy to do this. They prefer the kid takes care alone for himself, leave him with the TV switched on on Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon TV channel to fill his forming psychic with atrocities and false mysticism and believe and desire for "magics". Our fore-fathers worked hard to make our fathers, not to incline year on magic and mystical stories and now we sadly ignore, their good example and with our indifference do to our kids just the opposite. Still there is hope, if you're an young kid or growing teenager parent, you can make a difference, by simply trying to spend more time with your kid speak about his problems and re-tell him the Wondreous Evangelical Events or just play him this movie and movies aline.

Let the incarnated Lord Jesus, who took flesh by the Holy Immaculate womb of Virgin Mary have mercy on all Orthodox growing Children and Parents! Let by the Holy prayers of the Most Holy Theotokos, God give us all good minds to turn ourselves to care for our families, kids and relatives. Let the peace, hope, love and good health be abundant for us today and in the days to come of our short earthly life!


Christ is born ! Truly he is Born!

 

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