Two Questions regarding the Liturgy

Copt4Life

k I Just had twooo questions i wanned to ask:
1) How come priests say part of the liturgy inaudibly...? A lot of the parts they say inaudibly are real nice...is it a time issue or sumthin ???...caz with 2.5 hour masses I didn realize the Orthodox church was too concerned with that lol
2) The commemoration part of the liturgy..."As this O Lord is Thy commandment that we share in the commemoration of they saints"...Where exactly is that commandment..like is their a direct reference for it sumwhere?

Thanks Tonz in advance!

pureplaya434

i think theres another reason for the inaudibilty but bythe way you think 2.5 hours is long here nd i live in america liturgys are almost 4 hours

aghape,
chris

EgYpTiAnMaTT91

I heard from an abouna during a youth meeting that some prayers are said inaudibly to remind us that it's a sacrament and there are unseen things going on.

I hope that helps.

GBU

mmatt95

for the second question; here u have 2 amazing threads full of bible verses concerning intercessions:

http://tasbeha.org/content/community/index.php?board=4;action=display;threadid=257;start=msg6353#msg6353

http://tasbeha.org/content/community/index.php?board=4;action=display;threadid=735;start=msg13547#msg13547

copt-icboy

Coptic4life,
Interesting Questions. I think the reason why there are parts that are said inaudiobly simply becuase they want to give the congregation a chance for individual prayers. A chance to contemplate on parts of the liturgy. Just a thought.

On another note, a not-so-spiritual reason would be:
To give abouna a break, his voice must be hearting from praying the whole liturgy. j/k ;D

Roaming

i think it is becoz they just cant be sung or read in lahn if you know wat i mean,

i read some of them its prety hard to lahen dem

Copt4Life

thanks for all your thoughts guysssssssss! n Happy New Years Everybody :-*