Posted on 02/04/2016 7:57:43 AM PST by NRx
The akathist hymn to the Mother of God before the miraculous Pochaev Icon. (Slavonic Russian Orthodox Chant)
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Beautiful. I was in Gaming Austria last September and there were about a dozen priests, monks, and bishops from the Byzantine rite there studying English. They would break into song at any request and sometimes just spontaneously. Finally at Heiligenkreuz Abbey we were venerating the True Cross and they sang at the close of the liturgy, Salve Regina. Wonderful.
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