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The Slava (The Order for the Cutting of the Kolach) In Honor of St. Nicholas of Myra Offered at the Popovic's Home in Brownsville Texas December 6/19, 2002 |
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Father Antonio and Svetozar pass the Kolach Bread back and forth three times at the Slava Service. |
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Oralia & Svetozar (Steven) Popovic at their Brownsville home, prepared for their family's patron Saint's Feast Day Slava, which is served in Orthodox Serbian homes. |
Troparion for St. Nicholas: The truth of things revealed thee to thy flock as a rule of faith/ a model of meekness and a teacher of temperance./Therefore, thou hast won the heights by humility,/riches by poverty./Holy Father Nicholas, intercede with Christ our God, so that our souls may be saved. |
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The Priest blesses both the Bread (Kolach) and the red wine. |
Then the Priest makes a partial cut into the bread, the cut being in the shape of the cross. |
The blessed red wine is poured into the sign of the cross on the Kolach bread. |
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The blessed Kolach bread after the wine has been poured into the sign of the cross. |
The Kolach is broken and is passed back and forth three times between the Priest and the Head of the Household. |
Father and Steven pass the bread back and forth. The lit Slava Candle is seen below their hands. |
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Father prays for the entire family and for their loved ones, both living and departed. The family is blessed with holy water, the Feast which has been prepared is blessed, and the Slava service is completed. |
Father, Oralia, and Steven after the Slava has been concluded. |
While the Slava is predominantly a Serbian custom, that does not prevent others from adopting it. The Webmaster, for example, has adopted for his Slava his family namesake, St. Benignus of Dijon.
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