Seminary offers online prostopinije course
This Spring, the Byzantine Online program of Saints Cyril and Methodius Byzantine Catholic Seminary in Pittsburgh will be presenting a distance learning course on prostopinije. This course will be taught entirely online, and include audio lectures, reading, and listening examples. The course lasts for eight weeks, and begins on February 6.
For more information, write to Plainchanter@gmail.com.
The Feast of the Meeting
The feast of the Meeting of the our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ, which commemorates the presentation of our Lord by his parents in the Temple iin Jerusalem on the fortieth day from His birth, concludes the cycle of winter feasts that are sometimes called the "Feasts of Light". These feasts -- the Nativity, Theophany, and Meeting - have a common focus: the coming of the Messiah into the world, and the beginning of His work of redemption. (more)
The Great Fast
The Great Fast (Slavonic Velikij Post', or Svjata Chetyredesjatnica, "holy forty days") is our annual preparation for the feast of Pascha. (more)
Byzantine Catholic Hymnal
The MCI has prepared a 55-page hymnal containing the hymns from the old Levkulic Divine Liturgies book, in English and Slavonic, along with the English and Slavonic texts of the major hymns of the Divine Liturgy. (We received several requests for Lenten hymns, and making this 2007 draft book available now seemed the simplest way to satisfy those requests.) We hope this helps parishes to add to their repertoire of spiritual songs (duchovňi pisňi ) sung before and after our liturgical services.
Looking for Local Recordings of Prostopinije!
We would like to expand our archival collection of recorded prostopinije, old and new, in order to provide a record of prostopinije use in Europe and in the New World, to prevent any further loss of melodies, and to support the process of setting texts in English to the Church's plainchant.
Parishes or individuals with recorded prostopinije who are willing to grant non-exclusive webcast rights to the Metropolitan Cantor Institute are asked to contact the webmaster, Jeff Mierzejewski, at Plainchanter@gmail.com. Along with the recordings themselves, please provide a description of where and when they were recorded, and the names of the cantor(s) if known.