by Thomas Azer | Mar 23, 2020 | Hidden Treasures, Lent Series
Background This hymn is the signature hymn for the weekends of the Great Fast. Meghalou comes after the reading of the Synaxarion in place where Apekran (Your Name is so Great) or Qen `vran (In the Name..) is chanted annually. The hymn is composed of three verses of...
by Thomas Azer | Mar 17, 2020 | Hidden Treasures, Holy Week Series, Lent Series
Part I Part II Introduction Like most of the hymns on Great Friday, the theme of ‘Fai Etaf Enf’ is redemption, something accomplished on that day. However, this hymn is stylistically more meditational than other hymns. The pronoun “our” is used which reinforces the...
by Thomas Azer | Mar 9, 2020 | Hidden Treasures, Lent Series
Introduction to the hymn “Je Peniot” is a short hymn that is chanted as the Gospel response on Saturdays and Sundays of the Great Fast. It is also chanted as the gospel response during Funerals. Its tune can be best described as ‘encouraging’ and its words are drawn...
by Thomas Azer | Mar 1, 2020 | Hidden Treasures, Lent Series
Pearls of the Great Fast “Fasting during certain days is as medicine but not fasting during the forty days is a great sin.” -St. Augustine (Sermon 62) Why do We Observe the Great Fast? As a remembrance of the fast of our Savior that He fasted Imitation and...
