Fr Wiebe:

<snip>Church Slavonic. No one understands it outside a few monks and no
one can communicate pratically in it-but they keep it. 

The monks and my partner who grew up with it!  He can still say the
prayers in Slavonic (The Divine Liturgy of St John).  You should hear
our Friday evening discussions: Orthodox tradition over Black Bush Irish
whiskey.  Not a bad life, huh?

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