Byzantine chant - Cherubic Hymn (Plagal 4th)

Medieval Byzantine Chant of the Divine Liturgy.
Title: "Cherubic Hymn in Plagal Fourth Mode"
Service: Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom (IN ENGLISH)
Composer: Petros Peloponnesios
Performers: Cappella Romana
Album: "The Divine Liturgy In English In Byzantine Chant"
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On November 13th the Eastern Rite Churches celebrate the Feast of Saint John Chrysostom. In honour of that feast, I have decided to post a Cherubic Hymn chanted in Plagal 4th Mode, as performed in the great eastern liturgical rite, the Byzantine Rite mass, the Divine Liturgy of our Father among the Saints, Patriarch of Constantinople, John Chrysostom.
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Credits for pictures go to Sacred Destinations' photostream on flickr, www.flickr.com/photos/sacred_destinations/

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[grittygreenhorn]

What exactly is a "cherubic" Hymn? This does sound completely different and deeper than anything modern protestantism is creating.

[Callixtinus]

@grittygreenhorn :

en(.)wikipedia(.)org(/)wiki(/)­Cherubikon - without the parentheses.

[SwingingRingaDing]

What a splendid hymn! I see the square halo in the first picture, means the person was depicted during his own lifetime? Very interesting.

[Callixtinus]

@SwingingRingaDing :

Yes, you are right. Even more than that, the cleric with the square halo must have also been the donor, ie the person who paid for the construction of the mosaic, as was customary at that age.

[poblachtacha]

@poblachtacha

Well yes, but specifically "modern" (i.e. post-Vatican II) Catholicism.

The music of the Tridentine Mass, while a lot different from the chant of the Eastern Church, was much better than the contemporary tripe so common in American Catholic churches today.

[newreddawn1]

Slava

[SMoriah96]

@SMoriah96 *tones in which

[SMoriah96]

@grittygreenhorn The Cherubic hymn is sung in the Orthodox church when we receive Holy Communion, there are a lot of different ones in which this hymn is chanted.

[mandoman83]

@grittygreenhorn Just want to point out that if you look at the history of protestantism, they broke away from the (catholic) church which is second closest to the first church ( Orthodox ) which all the original hymns came out of. The more they try to create something their own, sadly, they grow farther away from the truth of it all. Namely, because anything man made is fallen by nature.

[combatjm89]

A glorious part of the Divine Liturgy!

[5692Nate21]

@grittygreenhorn could not agree with you more

[wellwellwellall]

mmm