Anthology of musical settings for use in Vespers of the Orthodox Church in America

Complete music and text for the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts. With rubrics and two appendices containing all the necessary texts from the Triodion and the Octoechos in new translation.

"Theology, as seen by Archimandrite Vasileios, is by its very essence liturgical; it is not a philosophy or a system but the expression of the Church's mystical life. "The first Christians lived their theology totally and with the whole of their bodies, just as they are baptized with the whole of their body and soul into the new life ... Thus their liturgical gatherings were an initiation into the mystery of theology ... The mystery of theology was celebrated in their lives, and they attained to the knowledge which is eternal life.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved