Great Lent

Arranged for English-language liturgical use in North America, these chants draw from various musical traditions of the Orthodox Church.

Christ the Bridegroom - 20th c. This icon print is mounted on stable medium density fiber core plywood with a birch wood veneer.

Icon illustrating the spiritual principle of carnal detachment and spiritual ascent outlined in the Ladder of Divine Ascent by St. John Climacus.

Join Frederica Mathewes-Green on a guided retreat through an ancient Orthodox text. Regardless of your denominational background, First Fruits of Prayer will bring to life the prayer experience of first millennium Christianity through immersion in this poetic hymn, an extraordinarily beautiful work that is still chanted by Christians around the world each Lent. It weaves together Old and New Testament Scriptures with prayers of hope and repentance and offers ancient ways of seeing Christ that still feel new today.

Featuring English-language arrangements of traditional Russian, Serbian, and Greek chants, as well as new compositions by seminary faculty and alumni, sung by the January 2007 Chorale which toured New England, and the chapel male choir, directed by Deacon Kevin Smith. Recorded at the Church of our Saviour in Rye, NY.