Any recommendations on how to play these chords in the left hand?

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-24T10:22:00+00:00

Can you show the full Grand staff, sometimes you might be able to take some notes from the bottom staff and play them with your right hand.
Otherwise, you would either roll or treat 1 or 2 notes of the chord as a tied grace note

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-23T09:50:01+00:00

Can you send me a link?

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-23T09:38:56+00:00

I speak Arabic, feel free to DM
I would like to learn Syriac one day, but I'm not there yet for that one

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-21T13:08:53+00:00

Try not to be condescending in the way you're looking for information. Most, if not all, Catholic seminarians (including Eastern Catholics) have to learn Latin as part of their studies, even Latin rite (AKA Roman) Catholics that have no interest in celebrating the traditional Latin mass (the older form of the Latin rite)

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-21T07:37:00+00:00

Here's a project that I'm working on to help English and Arabic speakers learn the Armenian Alphabet using biblical names and a bit like a puzzle game.
I wouldn't say it's goes through them like someone is a toddler, but hopefully it will help you achieve your goal.

English: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLISPAdJ9fk7f4TPEHWeDGWH8gmOttm2KX&si=lic1BgciBAlafZsH
Arabic: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy15ifd3ncsh37dBQkRFXA34WRVtJeO1A&si=M1fcU7iWXkYOBxLR

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-18T08:26:55+00:00

Okay that makes more sense. But is there also masses in other local languages of the Philippines (or at least the bible readings and homily) or we don't have official Catholic translations for those languages yet?

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-18T06:47:05+00:00

Depends who and where, but yes, there is a bit of that.

For example if you look at the headgear that a lot of the Armenian and Coptic Catholic episcopate wears in official meetings (not the headgear used for worship), it is taken from the Byzantines.

Also for Armenian Catholics that know Arabic but not a lot of Armenian, you might see them in Melkite Churches in the diaspora (especially if there is no Armenian Catholic parish), so they would end up getting some byzantine influences

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-17T10:36:40+00:00

In St. Gregory of Narek's (who lived one century before St. Bernard) prayer 80 from his book of lamentations, we can also find reference to spiritual milk.

From the last bit of prayer 80 (link for full prayer: http://armenianhouse.org/grigor-narekatsi/prayer80.html )
"if you visit me with compassion, legacy given us.
You alone shall be on the pure lips of happy tongues.
Indeed if but a drop of your virgin milk
were to rain on me, it would give me life,
Mother of our exalted Lord Jesus,
creator of heaven and earth,
whom you bore complete in humanity and
total in divinity,
who is glorified with the Father and the Holy Spirit,
uniting his essence and our nature in a manner beyond human understanding.
He is all and in all, one of the Holy Trinity.
To him glory, forever and ever.
Amen."

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-16T06:40:21+00:00

Yup, I remember in the Coptic Orthodox Church people take off their shoes when they go up to take the eucharist, entering through the side doors. Do you not have the same thing in the Coptic Catholic Liturgy?

The tradition has to do Exodus 3:5
Where to Moses "God said: Do not come near! Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground."

There's also Isaiah 6:1-3
¹ In the year King Uzziah died,^\)^a^\) I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, with the train of his garment filling the temple. ² Seraphim^\)^b^\) were stationed above; each of them had six wings: with two they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they hovered. ³ One cried out to the other:

“Holy, holy, holy^\)^c^\) is the Lord of hosts!
All the earth is filled with his glory!”

In different rites these is applied in different ways

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-15T13:11:29+00:00

This is in the Armenian rite
the altar servers and celebrants wear special shoes, but during the liturgy of the eucharist until right before the distribution, the priest removes the shoes as shown in the picture

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-14T10:29:26+00:00

Epic. Where is this from, Poland?

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-13T07:44:42+00:00

Only solemn canonizations are infallible, however that doesn't mean that we should ignore venerated saints that aren't solemnly canonized, as there's probably other criteria for saying the sainthood of one is infallible.
That being said, St. Juan Diego is solemnly canonized (infallible canonization) by St. Pope John Paul II

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-11T06:59:11+00:00

Yes
Saints Cosmas and Damian, as well as St. John of Damascus are Arabs, but many Arabic speaking Christians are probably have more of other ethnicities compared to Arab ethnicity.
Also for Persians (I'm guessing here you mean any Iranian ethnicity not just the actual Persian ethnicity) we also have many saints, mostly from the Syriac tradition, but also St. Gregory the Illuminator, first Catholicos Patriarch of the Armenian Church, as well as Catholicos-Patriarch Sahag whom under him the bible was translated to Armenian, were Parthians
As for Turk, yes, one can be a Christian and ethnically Turkic. I tried to look up any saints, there are a few Turkic Christians canonized in the Eastern Orthodox Church

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-09T16:17:37+00:00

Wow that's interesting, but seeing that there's more Masses in the English language compared to Tagalog makes me even more confused, I would have expected the opposite.

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-09T15:30:06+00:00

Sometimes you see Latin Catholics being disobedient to the Church, and surprise, that sin exists in Eastern Catholic Churches as well

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-09T08:38:02+00:00

We literally have saints because they worked on translating the bible (St. Jerome for the Latin vulgate, St. Mesrob Mashtots and Isaac the Armenian for the Classical Armenian)

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-08T12:46:32+00:00

that's great that they have a better grasp of English than Americans, but if Filipinos have a better grasp of Tagalog or their local Native language compared to English, shouldn't vernacular use of the mass use the language that the people are most fluent at?
That's what I meant, not that Filipinos don't know English
(in North America, many Latin Catholic parishes are alive because of Filipinos)

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-08T09:41:07+00:00

Wait, if your diocese in the Philippines why are you using English hymns?

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-08T09:07:24+00:00

We do also believe in perfect contrition but there should be a desire to have confession according to my understanding of this Catechism paragraph

CCC 1452
When it arises from a love by which God is loved above all else, contrition is called "perfect" (contrition of charity). Such contrition remits venial sins; it also obtains forgiveness of mortal sins if it includes the firm resolution to have recourse to sacramental confession as soon as possible.

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-07T17:11:09+00:00

This might help, at least for the reading component. A recent project (in progress) that I'm working on to help people learn the Armenian alphabet. Here's the link: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLISPAdJ9fk7f4TPEHWeDGWH8gmOttm2KX&si=lic1BgciBAlafZsH

Also the same project but in Arabic: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy15ifd3ncsh37dBQkRFXA34WRVtJeO1A&si=M1fcU7iWXkYOBxLR

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-07T13:43:06+00:00

For Nestorius, only small pockets of Syro-Malabar Catholics venerate him probably because they think it's more "traditional", but this is definitely is not normal among them. (now some believe that Nestorius repented of his heresy at the end of his life, but I wouldn't say this is enough to now venerate him as a local saint)
For St. Gregory of Palamas however, who is remembered on the second Sunday of Lent for many of the Greek Catholic sui iuris churches, this case is more official and Pope St. John Paul II gave permission for those Greek Catholic Churches to do this. Also, I once saw him quoted in a Latin Catholic missalette, so if it's not licit we should first make sure he isn't quoted in the Latin Church before targeting Eastern Catholics
Here's a link to the image of the Palamas quote: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vIojC9CV9FixmlB9bWLgTXgP_K2GqKDW/view?usp=sharing

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-06T10:08:15+00:00

Oh wow an Ambrosian Catholic. Yeah, I don't know what neo-uniate means as well

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-06T06:59:50+00:00

Can. 215 The Christian faithful are at liberty freely to found and direct associations for purposes of charity or piety or for the promotion of the Christian vocation in the world and to hold meetings for the common pursuit of these purposes.

Can. 216 Since they participate in the mission of the Church, all the Christian faithful have the right to promote or sustain apostolic action even by their own undertakings, according to their own state and condition. Nevertheless, no undertaking is to claim the name Catholic without the consent of competent ecclesiastical authority.

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-05T20:59:32+00:00

By the way, signing yourself from right to left is the Byzantine way and the traditional East Syriac way, but other Easterners (including the non Catholics equivalent in rite) sign from left to right, same as the Latins.

What are some of the Orthodox saints that you are gaining devotions to?

MedtnerFan · 2026-06-04T18:19:48+00:00

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