Episodes
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Morning prayers
Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty! General Hymn 160 (Hymns Ancient & Modern Revised)
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Canon of St Andrew of Crete - Evening of Holy and Great Monday
This Canon prepares us for the Gospel readings of Matins and Vespers of Holy and Great Tuesday.
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Matins of Great and Holy Tuesday
The Gospel according to Matthew 22:15-23:39 offers us ‘examples which show how far we are from understanding the holiness, the majesty of God’ Bishop Anthony. ‘And yet the judgement is good news. It holds a promise that the Lord will come and gather his children and that there will be no…
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Sixth hour of Holy and Great Monday
The period of the Holy Week possess an inner coherence and unity that are not always apparent. Why, for example, should Jacob lamentation of Joseph be commemorated on Holy and Great Monday and not Holy and Great Tuesday? Also, what special connection have these observances and references of…
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Matins of Holy and Great Monday
The hymnography of Matins of the Great and Holy Monday is dedicated to the two themes (Joseph, as will see in the readings of the Vespers, and the Gospel reading of the fig tree incident; also in vespers ) as well as the theme of the Lord coming towards His Passion. The first troparion chanted…
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The 3rd stance of Midnight service
The Midnight service is standard on weekdays. It is the first office of the Horologion, and it is celebrated in the middle of the night, before daybreak. In the writing of St John Cassian and the life of St Paul the Simple from Palladius letter to Lausus, we learn the Desert Fathers in Egypt used...
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1st and 2nd stance of Midnight service
The 1st stance of Midnight service includes the 17th kathisma (psalm 118). I have inserted instead the Canon of St Andrew which is appointed in the Small Compline. The Great Conpline is on Holy Monday and Holy Tuesday night the rest of the week we pray the Small Compline. The main theme of the...
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Vespers on Palm Sunday evening
“Passing from one feast to another” this hymn indicates that the coming Holy Week is a collection of feasts until the Great and Holy Thursday, the Great and Holy Friday and the feasts of feasts, the Holy Pascha. The hymns of Matins in the Service of the Bridegroom every day are repeated in…
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Vespers on Friday evening
The Sixth Saturday of Great Lent. Lazarus Saturday
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1st part of Divine Liturgy and a sermon on Archangel Gabriel
From a visit at St Anne’s monastic house in York
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Rehearsal
Russian language is tough to learn but some music makes it easier
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Lauds
Reusing Lauds
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Life of St Porphyrios
Homily on St Porphyrios
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Prayer rule 500
With the exception of the first prayer to the Trinity, this rule is following the structure of Optina monastery (nicknamed as Optina 500). "Imagine the cloud of the Saints who are praying with you and prostrate at the same time with you in the end when you reach the final knot and say: Lord have...
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When you wake up
These prayers are said within the midnight office but according to the life of St Symeon the New Theologian they were said individually.
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Vespers on Wednesday evening Sixth week of Lent (no Liturgy)
The reading of Genesis tonight is long, luckily we had Mr David helping out.
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Matins final and Lauds
Odes, Lauds
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Matins 2 Sessional hymns and Canon
Sessional hymns, psalm 50, triodion
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Matins 1
Royal psalms and six psalms
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Ninth hour & Typica
In Mount Athos the order of the Ninth hour must be merged with Typica. That’s because the service of Typica is preceded from the Ninth hour. However, because is the Great Lent and the fast is strict the monks start with the Ninth hour then they do a reading of five chapters from the Ladder but…
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The office of tersext (τριθέκτη)
This office was primarily celebrated when there was no eucharistic Liturgy. During Great Lent, this office served for the preparation of the catechumens, whence the biblical reading of Isaiah inserted in the sixth hour and followed by a sermon.
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Vespers on Monday evening: Tuesday of the 6th week of Great Lent
Vespers continuing straight from the 9th hour and the Typica, without the psalter. It is divided into three parts; part 1, introductory psalm - part 2, Lord, I have cried unto Thee, Part 3, dismissal prayers.
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Prayer from Εὑχολόγιον ἐπί λοιμοῦ
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, I have decided to pray an ancient prayer for those who are sick or have died. Oh Lord, be with the families of those who are sick or have died. May they regain their strength and health through your mercy. Defend us and have mercy on us from illness and despair....
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