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Cantoring Skills Workshop: Summer 2014 — Spring 2015

Cantoring Skills Workshop: Summer, 2014 — Spring, 2015

Слава Тобі Боже! Glory to You, O God! Δόξα Σοι ο Θεός!

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ —

With the Blessing of His Grace, ANDRIY, Bishop of the Eastern Eparchy, we humbly present the “Cantoring Skills Workshop” for Summer 2014 – Spring, 2015 — a series of lectures, practica and Liturgical Worship that will give participants a deeper understanding of Christian Worship and the Orthodox Faith as practiced in the Eastern Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada — using UOCC Liturgical Texts (in Ukrainian and English) arranged for Kyivan chant and Obikhod melodies.

Workshop Lectures

Each Workshop will begin at 2:00pm with prayer — and end in worship with the Office of Vespers. The opening prayer will be followed by a lecture on a particular aspect of Liturgical Worship, traditions surrounding the Liturgical Year, our responsibilities as active participants in the Glorification of God and the Life of Christ’s Living Church, a short vocal warm-up and the review of texts and musical arrangements. Questions on any aspect of the services covered are welcome and encouraged — the workshops are a wonderful opportunity to discover more about our faith.

A particular focus for this year’s Cantoring Workshop will be: The Divine Liturgy, Lenten (Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete, Passia) and Paschal Services.

Dates

The Cantoring Skills Workshops will be held on the following Saturdays, starting at 2:00pm:

Saturday, September 6th, 2014
Saturday, October 18th, 2014
Saturday, December 6th, 2014
Saturday, January 31st, 2015
Saturday, February 28th, 2015
Saturday, March 28th, 2015
Saturday, April 25th, 2015

Where

Ukrainian Orthodox Church of St. Demetrius

3338 Lakeshore Blvd. West
Etobicoke, ON
M8W 1M9

www.stdemetriusuoc.ca

Who Should Attend

Everyone! The Workshops are open to all. Musical training and familiarity with musical notation is helpful, but not required. The languages of instruction are English and Ukrainian.

Texts and Materials

The primary source materials for the Cantoring Skills Workshop is the Добрий Пастир молитовник ∞ Good Shepherd Prayer Book, available at church kiosks or through the Consistory Church Goods Store:

9 St. John’s Avenue
Winnipeg, MB
Canada R2W 1G8
1-800-804-6040
churchgoods@uocc.ca

The remaining Workshop materials will be made available online.

The Great Canon — in English, double-sided, saddle stitched booklets

Brothers and sisters in Christ —

Individual print files of the Great Canon of our holy Father among the saints, Andrew of Crete, the Jerusalemite:

Monday, at Great Compline, the First Week of the Great Fast.
Tuesday, at Great Compline, the First Week of the Great Fast.
Wednesday, at Great Compline, the First Week of the Great Fast.
Thursday, at Great Compline, the First Week of the Great Fast.

Великий канон — українською, в форматі брошури

Улюбленні у Христі —

Великий Канон святого отця нашого Андрія Критського, Єрусалимського — друкарські файли для скачування:

The Great Canon of Repentance, a work of our holy Father among the saints, Andrew of Crete — in English

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ —

The Great Canon of Repentance, a work of our holy Father among the saints, Andrew of Crete, the Jerusalemite — in English.

The Great Canon of our holy Father among the saints Andrew of Crete, the Jerusalemite

Великий покаянний канон святого отця нашого Андрія Критського, Єрусалимського — українською

Дорогі у Христі Ісусі браття і сестри —

Великий Покаянний Канон святого отця нашого Андрія Критського, Єрусалимського — українською

Великий покаянний канон святого отця нашого Андрія Критського, Єрусалимського •
The Great Canon of Repentance of our Holy Father among the saints, Saint Andrew of Crete, the Jerusalemite

Дорогі у Христі браття і сестри —

Now available at the Print Shop at pastyr.ca — print-ready files of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete in parallel Ukrainian and English texts for:

Monday,
Tuesday,
Wednesday and
Thursday…of the First Week of the Great Fast.

The files are intended for double-sided printing on standard letter-sized stock with saddle-stitched binding (i.e. stapled through the center of the spine and folded in half). The result will be a relatively thick booklet, but at a more reasonable printing cost than other binding methods.

For parishes with more sophisticated printing systems, this might even be done in-house.

A blessed Fast.

Pray for us.

Великий Покаянний Канон святого отця нашого святого Андрія Критського, Єрусалимського • The Great Canon of Repentance of our Holy Father among the saints, Saint Andrew of Crete, the Jerusalemite

Великий Покаянний Канон святого отця нашого Андрія Критського, Єрусалимського • The Great Canon of Repentance of our Holy Father among the saints, Saint Andrew of Crete, the Jerusalemite

Великий канон святого Андрія Критського • The Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete

Душе моя, душе моя, устань, чому ти спиш?
Кінець наближається, і мусеш ти стривожитись;
пробудися ж, щоб пощадив тебе Христос Бог,
що всюди є і все наповняє.

My soul, my soul, rise up. Why are you sleeping?
The end draws near, and soon you will be troubled.
Watch, then, so that Christ God may spare you,
for He is present everywhere and fills all things.

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ —

Now available through the Print Shop at pastyr.ca:

Великий Канон святого отця нашого Андрія Критського, Єрусалимського • The Great Canon of our holy Father among the sainsts, Andrew of Crete, the Jerusalemite, in parallel Ukrainian and English texts.

This .pdf file contains the text for Venerable Andrew’s masterwork of prayer and repentance as read at Great Compline, Monday thru Thursday, the First Week of the Great Fast.

Following the Cantoring Skills Workshop tomorrow (March 1st), individual files (i.e., one file for each of the four services in the First Week) will be made available in print-ready booklet form, in both unilingual and bilingual versions, suitable for saddle-stitching. Since the Great Fast is already at our doorstep, none too soon. The Great Canon is read, in full, together with the Life of St. Mary of Egypt on Thursday of the Fifth Week, at Orthros. We are working to realize that now.

These words have power — they were written 1300 years ago — yet they were written in our own voice. The Great Canon is bittersweet exhortation and marvelous instruction, chiding the soul back to its Creator — but gently, patiently — with the love of a father for a wayward child. It is a love that is not blind — it sees openly, it understands our faults, it offers our soul a way, through fasting and repentance, to regain “the first robe that the Creator wove” for us. The Canon draws on the deep well of the Old Testament and binds it with the New: the veined rock that great Moses strikes and from which water pours forth for the Israelites in a waterless desert — becomes the body of Christ, His side pierced with a spear, from whence our salvation rushes.

It is a beautiful and lasting work, that fully deserves the title Orthodoxy has given it, almost from the moment it was written. In length, breadth and depth, St. Andrew’s Canon of Repentance is truly Great. Thank God for the one who wrote it — for the millions whose feet, for a while at least, came to walk on the narrow path by it — and pray that we, who follow thirteen centuries after, might still find in the verses of a venerable monk born in Damascus, trained in Jerusalem, counseled in Constantinople, charged with a see in Crete — a patient, constant hand to shake our souls from slumber.

A blessed Fast.

Pray for us.

Покаянний Великий Канон святого отця нашого Андрія Критського, Єрусалимського • The Great Canon of Repentance of our holy Father among the Saints Andrew of Crete and of Jerusalem