Divine Liturgy

Divine Liturgy

Artist: Monks of Simonopetra Monastery
Item number: AB015
Category: Byzantine
Chant Type: Byzantine
Language: Greek
Label: IMSP
Period: Contemporary
Length: 57'43
Release date: 1999
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1. My Soul Doth Praise the Lord

2. Trisagion

3. Cherubic Hymn

4. Liturgical Chants

5. It Is Meet and Right

6. Litany

7. Of Thy Mystical Supper

8. Let Our Mouths Be Filled With Thy Praise

9. Through The Prayers of our Holy Fathers

10. Accept, O Lord


This selection of hymns from the holy service of the DIVINE LITURGY aims at assisting the faithful to approach more closely the Church's life of worship. The chants are part of the unchanging elements of an Athonite Vigil

By: Fr. Apostolos Hill

Sitting at the apex of Orthodoxy's Liturgical life, the Divine Liturgy is that for which the best that we have is held in reserve. This recording by the monks of the Simonopetra monastary does no less. The exultant and ethereal Trisagion hymn on track two, for example, conveys a sense of the timelessness of the liturgy. The singers voices blend nicely in these more ornamented and lengthy selections and the production, though limited, does not detract. Most practicing Orthodox will be familiar with many of these hymns though not all owing to the differences between the monastic and cathedral rites. The music may stretch the attention span of the less initiated listener since it is more complicated than the more accessible idiomela setting of Byzantine chant but it is worth investing the time into developing a greater appreciation for the nuances of Eastern Christian sacred chant.