How long is your liturgy?

[eoe]

How long is the average Liturgy at your parish? Just the Liturgy - not including Matins/Orthros. From "Blessed is the kingdom.." until you get the antidoron at the end....

 

[choirfiend]

What if you get antidoron after communion

I would count from

Blessed is the Kingdom of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
to
Blessed be the name of the Lord, henceforth and forever more.

That's the beginning and ending. The dismissal line and post-communion prayers (if any of yall read them, it's not common) is after Liturgy has finished.

Do you want a poll?

 

[kamikat]

Ours is generally 1.5hrs. A weekday Liturgy is usually 1hr, maybe 1 and 15minutes.

 

[HumbleSiPilot77]

To me there is no time in Divine Liturgy, never timed it... Estimation would be 1:45. But, no offense or harm meant to my brothers, why is this important?

 

[MariaRegina]

The longer the Divine Liturgy, the better.

 

[theoforos]

I guess 1 hour 30 minutes would be the normal length over here, but there's some variation. I've heard about weekday liturgies that don't last more than an hour, but sometimes they are much longer than 1 hour 30 minutes. On Tuesday the Dormition liturgy lasted 2-3 hours. The metropolitan was there with approx. 20 priests, about half of them Athonite monks straight from the Agion Oros who had come for the opening of an exhibition about mount Athos, which was opened today, the first time such an exhibition is arranged outside of Greece. And besides, there was also an ordination and water blessing during the liturgy. It took a while, but I didn't mind. I could attend a liturgy forever.

 

[irishseventysix]

Typically, it's two hours for us, but this includes the Thanksgiving Prayers at the end. It's hard to say, though, because sometimes Matins goes a little fast, so we start DL early (9:05-9:10 instead of the scheduled 9:15). But a standard DL service with no churchings or catechumen inductions (and we seem to have one or the other about once a month now) goes until 11:15.

 

[eoe]

To me there is no time in Divine Liturgy, never timed it... Estimation would be 1:45. But, no offense or harm meant to my brothers, why is this important?

It isn't and I agree with you. There was some discussion in another thread and I thought it might be interesting...

The longer the Divine Liturgy, the better.

Ἀμήν
Ἀμήν
Ἀμήν!

I am just getting into the groove after 1.5 hours!

 

[zebu]

Well...if you go to a church in the Slavic tradition of Orthodoxy it's going to be about 2 hours. If you go to a Greek or Antiochian church it will be 1.5 hours or so unless there are lots of communicants because the liturgy was shortened in those churches back in the late 19th century. The Slavs and also Jerusalem kept the older form of the liturgy, and so it takes a bit longer. Though I have been to bigger Greek churches where it took 2 hours because there were more communicants. The ROCOR church near here , if there are lots of communicants, takes 2.5 hours. My SMALL OCA church on a normal Sunday is slightly under 2 hours. I am not exactly sure how long liturgy is as we always read the post-communion prayers and so I don't see a clock until after that...

 

[Llauralin]

I've never timed it, but my guestimate would be an hour and a half.

 

[gzt]

my slavic oca church is a little over 1.5 hours on sunday - closer to 1hr-1h15 on weekdays.

it's all well and good to say the liturgy should last longer, forever, or whatever, but at a certain point that's just absurd. 1.5 hours is long enough.

 

[Greg the byzantine]

From the Time the Priest comes out and says "Evlogeimeni I Vasillia........" to "Di Euxon ton Agion Pateron Imon Kyrie Isous Chryste O Theos Eleison kai Soson Imas AMIN" It is just about 2 hours.

 

[Lotar]

For us it is about 2 hours.

With announcements, kissing the cross and trying to sneek pass people on the way out, it's about 2.5.

 

[NyssaTheHobbit]

Only 1.5 hours for a Greek Orthodox Church? That's a relief, since if we go to an Orthodox church, the only one in town is Greek. Of course, I've seen it mentioned on this forum once or twice, so maybe somebody here knows what the Fond du Lac, WI church is like?

 

[Lotar]

Some Greek churches are finished in a hour.

 

[MariaRegina]

Some Greek churches are finished in a hour.

Yeah, I wrote a poem about that once in a rant.
The pastor would ask that all crying babies be brought to the crying room and then would stare at the moms until they did so.
He had a sudden change of heart when a child drowned in a swimming pool accident.

I like the OCA Divine Liturgy where the Beatitudes are sung.

 

[Matrona]

it's all well and good to say the liturgy should last longer, forever, or whatever, but at a certain point that's just absurd. 1.5 hours is long enough.

I agree absolutely. I know I can handle about three and a half hours, but any longer than that and I run the risk of getting exhausted from the strain and dehydration. It's not like it's a contest.

 

[The Virginian]

How long is the average Liturgy at your parish? Just the Liturgy - not including Matins/Orthros. From "Blessed is the kingdom.." until you get the antidoron at the end....

I'm guessing that you're talking about the celebration of a "normal" Divine Liturgy. From the time that the clergy processes in, until the alcolyte extinguishes the candles on the altar, our Divine Liturgy takes about 1 1/2 hours.

If the makeup of the parish is mainly older Christians, the service could take considerably less time, for health reasons. There really are a multitude of factors!


a bondservant of The Lord!

 

[Ilian]

Well...if you go to a church in the Slavic tradition of Orthodoxy it's going to be about 2 hours. If you go to a Greek or Antiochian church it will be 1.5 hours or so unless there are lots of communicants because the liturgy was shortened in those churches back in the late 19th century. The Slavs and also Jerusalem kept the older form of the liturgy, and so it takes a bit longer.

I think this needs a bit of qualification on a couple of counts.

Not all Slavs use the same recension or typikon. You will see a great deal of difference for instance between the church of the Nikonian Reforms, the Old Rite, and the churches with roots in Transcarpathia. Each has a distinctive set of rubrics (among other differences).

Nearly every church, save for the Old Rite, has made modifications to the monastic typikons. Where you will see the most variance today however is with how much of the material in the service book is actually recited or chanted, or by what that is delineated as optional is being omitted.

Generally speaking about an hour and a half is what most people can do in my experience.

 

[Matrona]

Some Greek churches are finished in a hour.

Is that with or without a homily?

I go to a small parish, and I've noticed that a liturgy with a single chanter tends to go faster than one with a choir, and if Father doesn't do a homily, the whole liturgy is only about an hour.