8/8/2018
Hieromonk Herman (Majkrzak)
We’ll begin in this lesson with Daily Matins, and this will provide us with the basic framework we’ll need to discuss the various differences that apply for either Sunday or Festal Matins.
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Much as we began our study of the entire order of Vespers by focusing on “Lord, I Call” and its stichera, so we’ll begin to learn about Matins by first looking at the Canon, which many find to be a daunting form of hymnography to understand and to do.
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In this fourth lesson, Fr. Herman discusses the entire order of Vespers, noting differences between Daily Vespers and Great Vespers.
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In this third lesson, Fr. Herman begins to discuss the service of Vespers by focusing on the ”Lord, I Call” psalms and the stichera that accompany them.
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In this second lesson, Fr. Herman shows how the liturgical books discussed last time are used in different ways throughout the liturgical year,
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St. Tikhon’s Monastery, the oldest Orthodox monastery in America, has published an in-depth, twelve-part video series on the fascinating yet complicated topic of Liturgics for Readers and Choir Directors in the Orthodox Christian tradition.
