!!!HOW EXCITING IT WOULD ACTUALLY BE IF I COULD GO TO A CHURCH IN MY OWN CITY IN AMERICA WHERE ANCIENT GREEK IS ACTUALLY SPOKEN!!! It turns out that there is such a place, and here is the kicker: they have every mass livestreamed, they have all the liturgy uploaded on their webpage with an English translation, I mean how much more user friendly can you get? All of this seems too good to be true, well, it is. It seems that they start out in Ancient Greek but then they go off script and revert into modern Greek. Ok, so downloading the live streams is a bit challenging but it can be done here:
They have a download button. I recommend importing the video into iMovie so that is easier to negotiate the video. The programs for the March 3rd service can be found here,
https://dcs.goarch.org/goa_2024_0104/dcs/dcs.html
for it seems they have 4 or 5 services on that day and it’s not clear what service their doing. In any case the video seems to start with the Midnight office located here:
https://dcs.goarch.org/goa_2024_0104/dcs/p/s/2024/03/03/mo/gr-en/se.m03.d03.mo.pdf
Words begin to be spoken around 2:10 of the video. At 2:38 it gets challenging. I ca clearly here the woman saying
2:38
Ἅγιος ὁ Θεός, ἅγιος Ἰσχυρός, ἅγιος Ἀθάνατος, ἐλέησον ἡμᾶς
2:54
Παναγία Τριάς, ἐλέησον ἡμᾶς. Κύριε, ἱλάσθητι ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις ἡμῶν.
3:04
Δόξα Πατρὶ καὶ Υἱῷ καὶ ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι. Καὶ νῦν καὶ ἀεί, καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.
3:07
Πάτερ ἡμῶν ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς, ἁγιασθήτω τὸ ὄνομά σου.
3:30
Ἀμήν. Κύριε, ἐλέησον. (ιβʹ)
AFTER THIS POINT THEY GO OFF SCRIPT
At 3:39 I can clearly hear her saying
Δόξα Πατρὶ καὶ Υἱῷ καὶ ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι.
But once again she goes off script.
Can anybody help me out with what is going on? Are they switching back and forth between Ancient and Modern Greek or are they just disorganized and not posting the right script but they are staying within Ancient Greek.