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  • oh how i wish that music today was like this hymn right here

  • there is no greater voice in chistendom . . . than the voice of this man . . . right here . . . . amen . . . .

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  • Χερουβικό στον Αγ. Σπυρίδωνα Πύργου Ηλείας - Καβαρνός

  • I am probably biased because I am an Orthodox Christian, but I listen to this more than anything else on youtube

  • 5 person are taliban or pkistanese

  • perfect music. respect from turkey...

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  • ( I still remember you G Whiz)

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  • Lord my own people; treat me as a Gentile!

    I did my best to keep my vows and oaths!

    Does GOP even remember their promises lord?

    shem

  • and i hope lord that i am not last christian!

  • i Ifeel like the last democrat lord!

  • Where should an awaken spirit dwell?

  • Amazing chant. Wow.

  • god bless orthodoxy, from a Catholic.

  • Through foolishness they deceived themselves into thinking that there was no right or wrong way in music, that it was to be judged good or bad by the pleasure it gave. By their works and their theories they infected the masses with the presumption to think themselves adequate judges.

  • The rule was to listen silently and learn; boys, teachers, and the crowd were kept in order by threat of the stick. . . . But later, an unmusical anarchy was led by poets who had natural talent, but were ignorant of the laws of music...

  • Our music was once divided into its proper forms...It was not permitted to exchange the melodic styles of these established forms and others. Knowledge and informed judgment penalized disobedience. There were no whistles, unmusical mob-noises, or clapping for applause.

  • One kiss for my orthodox brothers from Nord Italy

  • @TheWheelofLife100 Remember that your own nature has been taken up into God Himself in Jesus Christ. You cannot find any religion in which God and man are any closer than in Christianity. Following a religion that doesn't really believe in a deity at all will not get you any closer to Him than you can be as a Christian. Study your faith, its history, and its saints and martyrs. You cannot go wrong that way.

  • Greece: you have my admiration and my love.

    From Colombia.

  • I forget all my worldly worries when I hear this beautiful and heavenly hymn!!

    God bless the orthodox church and its beautiful traditions !!

  • I think that it truly takes many times listening to the beautiful chants that were sung before our time. This type of music makes you remember your roots and the great religion that it comes from. To all that appreciate the wonders of this music God Bless.

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  • @erdal0 Wonderful, another hateful & name-calling fool. I'd never say that to you on a page that means something to you. It's called "respect"? I was simply making a POINT from what I know about the Eastern Orthodox church, having been raised in it & understanding its origin. Do not tell me something I already know. You're the one who chose to label it "judgment." That's on you, because that wasn't my intent nor will I sink to your level. Bye bye!

  • @erdal0 It's not (although I don't know what that would sound like). Hymns are either taken from the Bible itself or from centuries of church tradition. What's sung in church sounds a little different than these chants, but it's all the same. There are different "plagal tones" in which you will hear these; how the cantors keep them all straight I'll never know (of course the people can sing along also).

  • @Ellatha1 You know it. A good friend of mine is Ukrainian Catholic and I started going to Divine Liturgy with him. A lot of church going folk dont even understand what they're missing, the experience is so overwhelming, the sights and sounds and smells... all dedicated to the magnification and glory of God.

  • @windex007 Yes, this makes me sad. CENTURIES of history and you're right, people take for granted the beauty of it all. Maybe as you said, the people who go to church regularly are just used to it so they fail to see the wonder and it takes someone who hasn't seen the service many times to fully appreciate it. Thank you for your kind words!

  • The Byzantine rite has so much more style than the Roman rite.

  • to each his own. My favorite hymns are A Mighty Fortress, In Christ Alone, Before the Throne of God Above, and There is a Fountain

  • to each his own. My favorite hymns are A Mighty Fortress, In Christ Alone, Before the Throne of God Above, and There is a Fountain

  • Transliteration I ta cherouvim mystikos eikonizondes, kai ti zoopio triadhi ton trisaghion ymnon prosadhondes, pasan nin viotikin apothometha merimnan, os ton vasilea ton olon ypodhexameni, tais angelikais aoratos dhoryforoumenon taxesin. Allilouya, Allilouya, Allilouya.

  • this hymn reminds me of just how much of a sinner i am and just how good the jesus is . . . was . . . and will always be . . . amen . . . .

  • Thank you for posting this lovely hymn! I did know before (unlike many Turks unfortunately) that our Turkish-Ottoman traditional music owes a lot to Byzantine (as it owes to other cultures of course, like Armenian, Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, Greek etc) but this beautiful tune made it so clear for me as it is so familiar to my ear and so close to my heart.

  • @1000cucarachas well my friend and neighbour you were an empire it's expected the same the people under ottoman influence took something from you

  • God bless! Beautiful music! Greetings from Hungary, European Union :)

  • This hymn makes me weep. A big thank you to you who wrote this masterpiece, up in heaven; it is glorious; and a big thank you to the chanter of this piece, Mr. George; you have an amazing voice; and last but certainly not least, a big thank you to vago2006; for posting this hymn; a most generous gesture. God bless you all, in the name of the Jesus, Amen.

  • konstantinople a Greek caeser built the city. Konstantine a Greek Lost the city to the ottoman turks who massacered everyone. KONSTANTINE A GREEK WILL BRING THE CITY BACK TO GREECE AND CHRISTIANITY!!!

  • I'm Turkish and at the moment I don't care who did to what to who because I am lost within this magnificent, timeless voice! Thank you so much for posting this...

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  • I apologize to any Turks that are here, but I wish Constantinople stayed in the hands of the eastern Roman empire and remained a Christian city.

    Loss of Hellenism in Asia Minor and Constantinople is the greatest cultural theft that the West has ever suffered. The city was still half-Christian right up to the 20th century. Kemalist Turkey, in its quest to build a Turkish nation-state out of the Ottoman empire, brutally destroyed millennia-old Hellenistic civilization of the East.

  • Blessings from your Armenian Orthodox brothers!! our Chants and Beliefs are essentially the same but unique in a mysterious subtle way :D Thank God for this beautiful form of spiritual recreation we call music

  • @Ono42012

    Xatisto! Constantinople is Greek, Kosovo is Serbian, and Nagorno-Karabakh is Armenian!

  • sorry Constantinople was never Greek... same root.. bit like saying man is descended from mokeys... no same root.

  • @jkrywono

    Well, I am not an evolutionist either, but I would like to know why you say Constantinople was never Greek. The language and culture of both the city and the empire were Greek, most of the emperors were Greek, and so forth.

  • @telamon2011 Taken from wikipedia ... Constantinople was founded by the ROMAN emperor Constantine I on the site of an already-existing city, Byzantium, settled in the early days of Greek colonial expansion, probably around 671-662 BC. The site lay astride the land route from Europe to Asia and the seaway from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, and had in the Golden Horn an excellent and spacious harbour....

  • @jkrywono

    While this is true with regard to the founding, it must also be remembered that the Roman Empire was split into western and eastern halves, and the western (Latin) part fell to the German hordes in the fifth century. The Byzantine Empire was indeed multicultural, but to say that it was not Greek was like saying that the Russian Empire was not primarily Russian, and that China is primarily not Han. I am struck by the Darwinist-common ancestry claim? Not monkeys, then whom?

  • @telamon2011 You have a point there, but it's not true that the western part of the Empire fell to the german hordes. There were invasions and Rome was taken twice, but by latin-speaking, roman-clothed and roman-minded mercenaries of german descent which held roman ranks in the roman army, and they were christian too. The myth about the triumphant, pagan, german hordes sacking everything comes from northern-european, protestant historians and their superficial understanding of those times.

  • @1990RFD To be fair, when Charlemagne conquered Rome the culture of the west did separate from its Roman origin with the exception of religion

  • @smile221 Charlemagne was a fully "romanized" character, culturally and religiously, whose people had encountered roman-cultured peoples and lived among them for three centuries before his birth. His language would be the root of modern french (which is is of course a latin-derived language) and even his imperial ambitions were to restore the Empire in the roman fashion, expanding eastwards and northwards to civilize and evangelize the german peoples that Rome never conquered.

  • @1990RFD Respectfully, I disagree. Like many rulers in the middle ages - Charlemagne inhabited the corpse of the Roman empire in order to give legitimacy to himself and his reign - However, he was brought up in Frankish lands in modern day belgium, and while he wore a toga to his coronation by the pope after his successful war against the lombards - the rest of the time he dressed like any northern frankish nobleman would.

  • @smile221 By "restoring the Empire in the roman fashion" I do not mean the way people clothed themselves. Also, his aim was not solely to legitimate his reign by "inhabiting the corpse of the Empire", but actually recovering, invigorating and expanding it both materially (which includes the cultural aspect) and religiously. The Pope recognized such a claim and thus crowned him according to the old annointing ritual. Even other european kings referred to him as "the one Emperor."

  • @1990RFD That was a recognition of his power - Not of his 'romanness'. The fact that Charlemagne used Roman power structures already in place to support and enhance his own majesty is beyond the point - I was arguing that the Roman culture which had up to that point existed in much of western europe was separated forever - A point that most medieval historians agree with. I suggest you bone up on your ancient greek rhetorical fallacies before you reply next time

  • mükemmel.

  • Constantine the Eleventh, Palaiologos; the Marble Emperor, should be canonized...

  • συνεχισε. ο Θεος μαζι σου

  • STAY FAITHFUL IN JESUS CHRIST. AMEN

  • Thank you so much for uploading this divine hymn by a true master of Byzantine music, and adding these wonderful icons from different parts of the Orthodox world. As a Serb, I am particularly proud to see our St. Sava among them. Ευχαριστώ πολύ και να σας έχει ο Θεός καλά εσάς και όσους αγαπάτε!

  • Dear Rumpranger65, Also, study the schisms w/in Orthodoxy, of the Monophysites and the Monothesites. We have had many problems in The Church through the centuries.  This Sunday, as part of Great Lent, at Vespers, we will read all the anethemas of heretics and schismatics throughout our history and profess the purity of Orthodoxia (Correct teaching) and Orthopraxia (Correct practice.) May our Saviour reveal the fullness of His Bride, the Orthodox Church to you! With love in our Saviour, Maria

  • Dear Rumpranger 65, This is not to be cruel; it is simply the truth. Also, read "The History of The Council of Florence" and you will learn more (even though the reading is dry. The Jesuits made Eastern Europe "Byzantine Catholics" by duping them and Carpatho-Russia. Do no believe Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople; he has betrayed Orthodoxy by his Ecumenism, as well as have many other Orthodox hierarchs, clergy and laity. Our theologies are incompatible, esp. w/pagans.

  • Dear Rumpranger 65, This is not to be cruel; it is simply the truth. Also, read "The History of The Council of Florence" and you will learn more (even though the reading is dry. The Jesuits made Eastern Europe "Byzantine Catholics" by dupping them and CarpathoRussia. Do no believe Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople; he has betrayed Orthodoxy by his Ecumenism, as well as have many other Orthodox hierarchs, clergy and laity. Our theologies are incompatible, esp. w/pagans.

  • Dear Rumpranger65, There can be NO unity between the Orthodox Christians and the Roman Catholics, Protestants,and other religions. If you study the history of Christianity, the Great Schism of 1054, the Protestant "Reformations" created a heterodoxy. You find that the schisms in Christianity destroyed the purity of Christianity, as handed down by Christ, The Apostles, The Fathers of The Church and the 7 Ecumenical Councils. As for other world religions, they do NOT believe in the Triune God.

  • Greeting from Ethiopian ortodox

  • @1ethiopialove May God protect you from the Muslims who believe that the only "good Christian" is a dead Christian. Pray to our Saviour, Panagia, your guardian angel and the saints; they will protect you! Pray also to St. Menas, since he was in Egypt. Good strength! Good Success! With love in our Merciful Saviour, Maria

  • As a Turk, I feel myshelf strangelly Turk and Muslim when listening this.

  • @tolgaoztemur That's because Islam is inspired in Orthodox Christianity,we have alot of things in common. God bless!

  • @numarul65

    God Bless you Numaru,

    Turks are mostly Islamized Ortodoxs and Armenians, It is long story to explain.

  • I don't believe in a god but the orthodox religion has something spiritually

  • @mrspartan32Thank you. What an incredibly respectful and insightful response. I do believe in God. Fully and truly. The Orthodox Church is the true Church, Glory to God.

  • ELLAS FTW Let our faith and country be strong in these tough times.

  • cantecul heruvimilor (chant of the cherubim) spendid ,greetings from another orthodox country Romania .Peace to all orthodox brothers !

  • What are the lyrics saying? Please tell me I would like to know...... I feel like I've heard this all my life!I must know. 

  • @35linettem

    We ,those who(secretly) imagine the misterious cherubim

    And life-giving Trinity thrice-holy hymn bring

    Deny all the worldly concern

    As receiving the King of all,

    On the one surrounded by the invisibly angels

    I hope you understand something , my english is very poor .

  • @love5burgin Thank you, I knew it had to be saying something sacred or holy!

  • This is unbelievable...I noticed that Greeks have some special voices..I love you Greeks and Greece ! With love from Serbia !

  • I spent a few years in a monastery, singing Gregorian. This sends chills up my spine. As Thomas Merton said of Tibetan chant, "It sounds like the engine of the universe."

  • Im from an orthodox backround but my family are not practising I would like to visit my local church st.Ignatius in Belfast but im unsure, antiochian churches seem to be moving towards english liturgies thats not right..

  • @ConCon75 Don't be dissuaded. Orthodox liturhgies may be spoken in any language. That's the point. It is truly the universal and true Church. Language does not matter,

  • Perfectly sound like Ottoman classic musiki.

  • @tolgaoztemur It seems that someone immitates the other...Or more simple: Of how many millions of today's Turks their anchestors were christian that were islamized (usually by force)? All these abdullah people had never parallely lost their taste in music...

  • @SKOUTERIS

    I agree with you our anchestors were Christian. Then after they were Islamized. Then after they were asimilated into Turk especially during the time of Turkey republic. It is a myth that we are Central assian.

    No one can denie fachist assimilation policy of Turkey in the past. Fellow Greek sent away. Not many Armenian left behind. Many Kurds were slaughtered. We were all given a surname.

  • @tolgaoztemur Aferim...:) You are a blessed one able to see the truth...!

  • @SKOUTERIS

    Efharisto poli agapimenos Skouteris yiati me katalavis

  • Byzantine Empire was the best

  • I'm always listening to these chants before I go to sleep. It soothes my mind and reminds me of the times I used to go to church. I can't stop listening to it though, it's like a massive trance into another dimension. I just wish there was a CD for these particular chants sung by Mr Papanikolaos.

  • Η ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΓΛΩΣΣΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ Η ΜΟΝΗ ΠΟΥ ΜΠΟΡΕΙ ΝΑ ΑΚΟΥΣΤΕΙ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΟΥΡΑΝΟΥΣ ΜΕΣΩ ΑΥΤΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΥΠΕΡΟΧΩΝ ΥΜΝΩΝ !!!!!

  • This kicks gregorian chanting's ass.

  • @aeroshock1 this is gregorian

  • @kingstefan1

    My friend its byzantine chant......This has nothing to do with gregorian chanting.

  • @kingstefan1

    @kingstefan1

    Its is not gregorian. But those byzantine chants had much influence on the gregorian chant. You can here that it is byzantine because of the so called "Ison-Praxis", where there is a kind of "bordune tone". Gregorian chant was absolutely unison.

    with best regards

    peidaer

  • I could listen to this FOREVER.

  • I aint religious... you don't need to be to appreciate this. It's spiritual. Really wonderful sounds.

  • He is just expressing him self to God by this, another way of telling people the truth, there is beyound so much we don't know. You should check out the Orthodox church, but you don't haft to, it's by freewill, you can choose to love God or not love him, Gods not going to stop you from deciding.

  • what language is this

  • @HeatherNelida

    It's Greek! God Bless!

  • @vagos2006 it's orthodox, it doesn't matter whether it is Arabic, Greek, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, or Serbian and etc. This division into ethnic groups is a tremendous weakness. I hope "divide and conquer" will give you some food for thinking...

  • A Hellenic Hymn to Herouvim's, a byzantine chant

    youtube.com/watch?v=Ua9DEklXQO­w

    Greetings from Orthodox Athens,to all Christians

  • foarte frumos

  • imi place insa canta prea nazal

  • As a Protestant I want to thank you for your beautiful music.

  • I'm Orthodox, but I am Coptic Orthodox, the branch of orthodoxy from Egypt. Our chants are most similar during pascha. This is beautiful.

  • @saiyanguy45 It's hearthbreaking to see the suffering that the Copts endure in Egypt. We pray for you at our parish. Hopefully all Orthodox will be in communion soon worldwide.

  • @6MemoryOfForever9 very well said! i#m happy that you and your contribute to the unity of both churches. May people take yoou as an example. We have way way more in common than things that seperate us.

  • amazing!!! efharisto poli!

    a question, what does he say right at the beginnig? because i've been hearing that word in some other videos as well.

  • @ctimur

    What you are hearing is the intonation to start the tone. Virtually every Byzantine chanter does this. It helps to get into the tone of that particular hymn. It will be either Ananes, Anes, Agia (used for 4th tone) etc. God Bless!

  • @vagos2006 thanks for your answer! hmmm, ok, they all sound familiar.

    byzantine music is amazing, everything about it... especially the notation, brilliant!

  • superb,ingeresc!

  • @sw8074 I'm sorry, but this sounds nothing like it to me! in summer, in my native country, we hear the Adhan 2 or 3 times a day, and it is nothing like that, every adhan I have heard sounds nothing like that! the adhan is usually high pitched and sang in a way I do not, with all my respect, consider beautiful, orthodox chanting is sang with a deeper pitch, and it is very very beautiful, I'm not even orthodox! so no bias here! again, with all due respect! :D peace

  • @6MemoryOfForever9 Don't feel sorry, it's your opinion. The Orthodox Church was the main religion in the Arab world before the rise of Islam. So, yes, the Muslim Call to Prayer sounds very much like this Byzantine Chant, wether you like it or not.

  • the sign of the beast is near..warn the unbelivers and prepare for what it is to come.God bless from Romania

  • This is beautiful!!!! I'm so proud to be Orthodox :D!!!!!

  • ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΛΙ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΙΑ ΑΔΕΡΦΙΑ !!(ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΙΑ Η ΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ)!!!!!!!!!

  • @TheSilvestro4 eise arostos

  • The thing that i like in this profesor is that he is using a scales wich not many people can understand...

  • ΚΑΛΑ ΜΙΛΑΜΕ ΑΠΑΙΧΤΟ ΤΟ ΧΕΡΟΥΒΙΚΟ .......ΔΕΝ ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΕΤΑΙ...ΠΟΛΥ ΤΕΛΕΙΟ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΟΣΕΓΜΕΝΟ!!!!(ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΙΑ Η ΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ)!!!!!!!!!

  • !!!!!!!!ΤΕΛΕΙΟ ΧΕΡΟΥΒΙΚΟ!!!!!!!!! ΕΕΕΕΕΤΣΙ ΜΠΡΑΒΟ!!!!!!

    !!!!!!!!!!(ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΙΑ Η ΘΑΝΑΑΤΟΣ!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Putting others to shame is destructive. Christ did not teach condemnation, He taught salvation. Do not judge lest ye be judged.

  • This chant is so beautiful. I think it is unfortunate how people let secterianism blind their eyes.

  • this is really beautiful. i'm not a religious individual, but shit, this is amazing.

  • time for unity has come...united christianity.

    amen

  • @nooluchopf Amin...the time is here..return to the Orhodox Mother church.. Doxa Sto

    Theo imon..

  • I am nondemoninational but I adore chants and the old sense of sacred space. Thats something I wish America had, the old sense that a church was a place of blessing, not a salvaged strip mall. I pray for unity and peace, that when our Lord comes He finds a people united against His enemies, not against ourselves

  • I'm Catholic but I love the Orthodox. I pray for unity. BTW, why do you call this plagal of 1st tone? Is it the same thing as 5th tone? Or is it something else? Thank you.

  • Byzantine Music has 8 tones.

    1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, Pl. 1st, Pl. 2nd, Varis (Grave), and Pl. 4th.

  • @vagos2006 Yes vagos you probably know more than me about byzantine chant but ive seen it in the Holy Week books that the english translation says," 1st Plagal Tone. 5thTone" and i have seen it other places as well.

  • @vagos2006 but in bulgaria we named these tones 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th and 8th :)

  • @bostanxxl

    Its the same thing my friend. But according to traditional byzantine music, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th tones take on the name of plagal in the front of the 1st, 2nd, except for Grave tone and 4th tone. God Bless!

  • I pray for unity of Catholics joining Orthodoxy as all one Orthodox Church. As it was originally.

  • @rumpranger65 the bulgarians call this tone the 5-th but the greeks call it pl.1 because in some ways the 5-th comes from the 1st

  • @rumpranger65 Yes, sometimes Pl. 1st is called the 5th tone. "Plagal of the 1st" tells you more about the musical structure of the tone if you already know what the 1st tone is.

    To make things even more confusing, sometimes the 7th tone is the pl. of the 3rd, and sometimes it is something else entirely, epending on whether the singer sings in teh original 7th tone or the 7th that was developed later.

  • @EverythingZen14 Kind of similar to the tones in Latin music. Thanks!

  • @rumpranger65 Yes, I suspect the Gregorian tones are even similar in structure. I heard 'O Gladsome Light' sung at a Western Rite Vespers not long ago, and it was basically a Gregorian stylized version of the chant I hear sung Byzantine style in my regular parish. There were other intoned Gregorian hymns I remember hearing that day that were similar enough musically for me to pick out which tone was being sung.

  • @rumpranger65 .1st tone is mean the 1 of 8 of Byzantine music voices. (for example: the bases in Byz & Eur music. ni, pa, vu, ga (Γα), di (Δι), Κe (Κε), zo, ni. /// do, re, mi , fa, sol ,la ci ,do

  • @rumpranger65

    Yes its the same as 5th Tone. But Traditional Byzantine Music usually calls 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th tones Plagal 1st, Plagal 2nd, Grave Tone (Varis), and Plagal 4th tone. God Bless!

  • Καλημέρα

    Visit the new blog "Atheism, denial of truth"

    Επισκεφτείτε και το νέο ιστολόγιο ΑΘΕΪΑ, η άρνηση της αλήθειας

  • Orthodoxism Tradition of our ForeFathers and Respect to the World and Energy Known as god.

  • Even though i've seeked in my heart, i can never find faith. How ever, i feel in complete peace with myself when i hear this beautiful music...

  • try more, I beg you! Maybe you looked up in wrong places.

    God bless you!

  • @93evee The kingdom off God is... inside you.. and.. everywere around you..Amin.

  • May God, his beloved Son Jesus The Christ, and The Holy Spirit be blessed forever and forever!

  • Where, oh where can a wretch like me learn of Orthodoxy? Oh G*d how I have craved to at least have a faith that I know is the original faith. CAN ANYBODY HEAR ME? I am tired. I am so tired of not having a link to Him.

  • Go to the Holy mountain Athos and talk to the monks...then I'm sure that you will find that

  • The original faith that you seek is the risen and living Christ!! Yes, he does exist in our blessed and holy Orthodox Church, and he can be found here, but do not believe for a moment that he is not ready and waiting to receive you as a son and a brother. In other words, repent and be baptized, and do his will and you and he will be linked by means of the One who came at Pentacost--the Holy Spirit.

  • @bostoncloverleaf I sure hope so !

  • Where do you live? Here in Toronto we have both English and Greek speaking churches. The English Orthodox Church (St. Joseph's Of Arimathea in Pickering) are where the Newly converted go so that they can understand the services. Send me a message and we can talk.

  • @TheDanbristol,

    Please try to find the books by Seraphim Rose, hose writings have helped spread Orthodox Christianity throughout modern America and the West.

  • us orthodox christians accept all who would like to be apart of our church, feel free to stop in at any orthodox church on a sunday or holiday bright and early and if you like it speak to anyone about becoming apart of the family or just keep showing up.

  • Dan, may God bless you. Orthodoxy is the original Christian faith - unchanged. Mt. Athos would be a great place to go, but you may also benefit by reading various books on Orthodoxy - many are written by Fr. Seraphim Rose and others - which can help you learn/understand the Faith. Prayer will be most helpful - ask God to open your heart and mind to the Faith and His will. Visit the holy uncorrupt relics of St. John Maximovitch and ask for Vladika John's intercessions. What a great St. he is!

  • Go to an Orthodox church anywhere for a service, and talk with the priest afterwards about it... I'm sure he'd be delighted to talk with you.

  • @TheDanbristol I can help you. I am a deacon in the Greek Orthodox Church. Ask me anything you'd like.

  • @TheDanbristol, Elder Epraim, who was originally abbot in monasteries of Mount Athos, Greece, has come to America and made 18 beautiful monasteries. There is so much spiritualism in these places, that they put the teachings of the budhists and hindus to shame.

  • @TheDanbristol suggest reading up the goarch. org /ourfaith. it is the Greek Orthodox Archdiosece page but it is in English so reading it wont be a problem. It has articlesabout the Orthodox Faith. check out the parish direct. on this url and good the orthodox church in Us and Ca. to find local parishes that speak english

  • @TheDanbristol Sorry i couldnt type well but i had a limited amount of space and it was hard to fit it all in there so i just cut somestuff up

  • @TheDanbristol there is a lot online. Google up Orthodox Church and you

    can find many things at the links on many church sites.

  • @TheDanbristol If you are serious, find Allsaintsmonastery on youtube and continue from there. E-mail them too. Good luck.

  • Sounds alot like arab chants.Byzantine culture must of had a huge effect in that area even generations after

  • Yes your right, it was also on architecture. Many mosque designs are based on the Cathrdral of Aigia Sophia in Constantinople.