Your
love,
O Lord,
forever
will I
sing
Psalm 89:1a
Cyril & Methodius, (869, 885) brothers born in Thessalonika, were both monks and bishops, apostles to the people of Moravia and the southern Slavs. Cyril developed the cyrillic alphabet and they wrote, taught, preached and prayed in Salvonic, which was bitterly opposed by some as a "barbarous tongue," although the Slavonic liturgy was finally approved. (To these Western ears, that sounds like the pot calling the kettle black, given the surrounding languages! ) Methodius actually finished a translation of the Bible into Slavonic. His funeral was celebrated in Greek, Latin and Slavonic. His collect appropriately reads, in part, “Overcome all bitterness and strife among by the love of Christ..."
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