While leafing through some old scores at home, I came upon a packet of music from a 2015 workshop I attended in Moscow, Russia. I enjoy...

These actions signify the official beginning of Great Lent. “Vouchsafe, O Lord” is read very slowly to allow the maximum possible time...

Q: At our parish, we use the traditional liturgical pronouns (Thy/Thou), but some other parishes use more contemporary language...

Immediately before the choir sings "Holy, Holy, Holy Lord of Sabaoth! Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory," the priest chants the...

A note on context: This was originally published shortly after our parish began hosting a monthly social event that begins with Small...

A note on context: This article was originally published the week following our annual archepiscopal visit, when our hierarch served as a...

When a hierarch gives a blessing, the singers (or those standing about, if in a non-liturgical context such as a diocesan assembly or...

The Kneeling Vespers of Pentecost is a unique form of Vespers served directly after the Divine Liturgy on Holy Pentecost. As Vespers is...

The kliros is the area of the nave (the area west of the iconostas) where the choir stands; the term also refers to the podium and...

Clergy, readers and singers are forbidden from serving from memory; the appropriate service book must be open to the proper page, even if...

Although the prayer “O heavenly King” appears near the beginning of almost every service and personal prayer rule throughout the...

Most great feasts are followed by a short festal period, during which time the rubrics prescribe certain hymns of that feast to be...

Bridegroom Matins is a form of Matins served on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Holy Week. These services have a distinctly...

Note: This was published on the third Sunday of Great Lent (the Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross), hence the references to "today"....

In the Divine Liturgy, the antiphons are the first three hymns. Except on great feasts, the Sunday antiphons consist of portions of Psalm...

"Alleluia" (sometimes spelled "Hallelujah") is Hebrew for "praise the Lord" (literally, "praise Yahweh"). This term appears frequently in...

Q: Why does the choir often sing the Augmented Litany responses in many different languages, and what are those languages? A:  Singing...

At our parish approximately one year ago, we began singing "Having beheld the Resurrection of Christ" and "Shine, shine, O new Jerusalem"...

At the Divine Liturgy, why does It is Truly Meet occasionally get replaced with something else? At the Divine Liturgy of St. John...

A troparion (sometimes shortened to tropar; pl. troparia), is the primary hymn of a day, saint, feast or other commemoration. On each...