Banat Bulgarian Prayerbook
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http://www.mediafire.com/?oxzmt0y3t20
It's about 12+MB, but has some interesting content like the words to
the religious song Koj Bog e Velik kato nashije Bog? Who is a God as
great as our God? and other lovely pious treats. I visited the home
and church and social hall of the Romanian Bulgarians in Bucharest.
They had a lovely library and were hospitable, they said "like normal
Bulgarians" but actually were more hospitable than the ordinary modern
Bulgarian in terms of strangers.. Romania has a nice minorities
policy in which individual minorities have at least one representative
in office. The community leaders tolk me that for the Bulgarian
community , this could be problematic as they had Muslim, Roman
Catholic and Orthodox members in the community. There was evidently
no problem with the Muslim brothers and sisters but a sometimes
difficult rivalry and focus and consensus to present themselves in
government matters between the Orthodox and the Roman Catholics.
Definitely, this religious song, sung by Bulgarians sometimes while
waiting on the arrival outside the royal doors of the eucharest, is
something done by quite a number of Bulgarians from different
regions. When the Patriarchal church was functioning in Washington,
DC, we used to sing it most weeks with all its verses from the one
type sheet held in possession by the Popadija in the tiny chapel that
would barely hold 40 off 16th St. in DC Fondest memories of the
liturgies there.
AGG
> Interesting download, a prayerbook in Banat Bulgarian at:
>
> http://www.mediafire.com/?oxzmt0y3t20
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