Oh! This one is one of my favorites. This beautiful hymn, as mentioned yesterday, was written in the 1930's in the midst of terrible times. Glory to God for All Things! What a tool of gratefulness, a tool to open our eyes to His beauty all around. This one here, the 2nd Kontakion and Ikos …
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Akathist of Thanksgiving
In honor of it being the week of Thanksgiving I would like to share with you, each day, an excerpt from a beautiful hymn called "Glory to God for All Things". Another title is Akathist of Thanksgiving. Last year I shared the hymn in its entirety in one post. This year I want to share …
Sunny Sunday
Welcome to Sunday, the Lord's day. The day we are reminded that Christ is Risen. Everyday. He has conquered death. I love Sundays. One of my favorite parts of the hymnography for the Resurrection is that over and over again we hear how Christ has conquered death. He has brought light from darkness. It is …
Sunny Sunday
Good morning and welcome to Sunny Sunday! Each Sunday I write and post about Resurrection hymns we sing each Saturday evening and Sunday at Liturgy. I absolutely love being able to do this. It has truly been influential in my climbing out of the darkness. And as I was trying to come up with a …
Death is Overthrown
The joyous message of the Resurrection is ours to hear, "Death is overthrown! Christ God is risen, granting the world great mercy!" It makes me happy to sing this. This sentence is so powerful! It peels away the heaviness that has been weighing me down. I feel as if I have been overcome by heavy …
Enlightened!
I have started taking early morning walks lately and it has been truly inspiring. It has become clearer to me, even more so, that all has been enlightened. All of creation that is. I will never tire of it's explicit beauty all around. Rich in colors. Intricate in detail. While walking I often find myself …
Resurrection Reminder
A little bit of Pascha today. As I talk about in That Feeling, this hymn is how we start our midnight service and procession after receiving the light. It fills me. Joy! Have a blessed week! Christ is Risen....every day!
Resurrection Reminder
It's been one of those weeks. The kind where you aren't really sure where the days and nights have disappeared to. The kind that just blurs together into one big black hole. The kind that desperately needs this reminder to bring up the tail end. Like the rainbow pops up at the end of the …
The Cross
Today we celebrate my second favorite Great Feast of the Church...the Exaltation of the Life-Giving Cross! Absolutely beautiful! We honor the Cross, for by it Joy has come into all the world! I am going to do a kind of "guest post" today by taking the essay from the OCA.org website on The Universal Exaltation …
Psalm 33/34
This Psalm has been on my mind quite a bit over the last couple of weeks. Two weeks ago on Sunday it suddenly hit me, the words that I was singing. I will bless the Lord at all times, His praise shall continually be in my mouth. One of my goals...to continually be focused on …
