http://www.lent.goarch.org/media/qt_player.asp?videoTitle=The%20Akathist%20Hymn&location=/en/services/akathist/eikona/akathist_MSTR.mov
Akathist Ping to those of you in Western Lent. Please ping your lists. BTW, this is the chant which proclaims the Theotokos as “Butter Mountain”!
I love the colors and the gold dangly-things on that Icon. I have my own copy of the Akathist now (Byzantine Catholic, I think). I like to get it out and read a few estrofas when the Grumps hit.
I hope to go back to St. Nektarios during the Greeks’ Lent this year. I saw their priest at Sam’s Club last week; he didn’t want to buy Girl Scout cookies :-). The next day we saw a Chabad Jewish man!
Wow, that was wonderful! (I had to update my Quicktime player in order to listen to it but it was well worth it!) Thank you for posting that, and God Bless.
What a beautiful icon — and beautiful prayer! Thanks for posting!
I will check out the hymn after quick time loads.
When does the EO Lent start?