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The Easter Series

Want to know more about Great Lent? What does each Sunday of Great Lent celebrate? Learn why Great Lent is the biggest Lenten time we have and what it all adds up to - The biggest feast day of all time - Pascha!

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Services

Have you ever been to a Saturday night service or a Sunday liturgy and not understand what the priests are doing and what the choir is singing about? Click on this link to find out the reasoning and the symbolism behind the saturday night services and Sunday liturgics to fully appreciate the beauty of Orthodox services:

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Singing

Church Tones

The church tones are a style of singing in which all Russian Orthodox churches sing by. These tones, once you learn them, can be sung in every Russian Orthodox Church. Click on the link to learn more about the Church tones:


Kieven Chant

One of the liturgical chants of the Russian Orthodox Church, which first developed in the southwestern region of Rus' as a variant of znamenny chant, and then spread to Muscovite Russia in the 17th c. Melodies of Kievan chant tend to be shorter and simpler rhythmically than znamenny melodies. The melodies of Kievan chant, for the most part, served as the basis for the so-called "Common" chant.

Click on the link below to learn how to read the Kievan Square Notes

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