akathist
akathistos

Back in Montreal, Brother Joseph began reading an akathist daily before the icon.

From 1927, when he wrote his first akathist, Tudor made overtures toward Orthodox monasticism.

The akathist may also be included as a part of another service, such as Matins or a Molieben.

One traditional prayerful preparation for reception of the Eucharist is to read three canons and an akathist the evening prior.

For the most part, the only time an entire kontakion is performed is when an Akathist Hymn is chanted.

It says in the Akathist that St. Herman envisioned "an Episcopal throne in this land."

If an akathist is to be chanted in conjunction with a canon, it is inserted after Ode VI.

However, the upper porch area was painted by a local priest Strahinja from Budimlje; this included Akathist to the Mother of God.

For Pascha (Easter) and Bright Week, the requirement for three canons and an akathist is usually relaxed.

The immediate reactions to the reinvention of akathist verse ranged from the positive (literary columnist Perpessicius) to the derisive (author Alexandru Sahia).

Most of the newer akathists are pastiche, that is, a generic form imitating the original 6th century akathist to the Theotokos into which a particular saint's name is inserted.

Using his contacts abroad, Father Scrima typed and salvaged some of Tudor and Voiculescu's last known texts, including an akathist to the Theotokos.

Devotional works included Nicholas Jackson's Variations on 'Praise to the Lord, the Almighty' and John Tavener's The Akathist of Thanksgiving.

In the Greek, Arabic, and Russian Old Rite traditions, the only akathist permitted in formal liturgical use is the original akathist.

Its first release, due this month, is a recent work by the British composer John Tavener, a setting of the Akathist of Thanksgiving, a Russian Orthodox liturgical poem.

His passion for the Orthodox tradition was voiced in his first religious hymn (or akathist), honoring Saint Dimitrie Basarabov, published by Gândirea in 1927, and collected in a 1940 volume.

When an akathist is chanted by itself, the Usual beginning, a series of prayers which include the Trisagion (thrice-holy) is often said as a prelude to the akathist hymn.

Sterian, who announced that, thanks in part to Tudor, Romanian poetry had entered its age of "religious glory", was directly inspired to write his own Akathist to the Venerable Mother Parascheva the New.

In some churches the feast of a patron saint is moved to the nearest Saturday (excluding the Saturday of the Akathist), and in other churches, it is celebrated on the day of the feast itself.

When the word akathist is used alone, it most commonly refers to the original hymn by this name, the 6th century Akathist to the Theotokos, attributed to St. Romanos the Melodist.

In some parts of the Russian church, the day before receiving Holy Communion, there is a custom that each person who intends to communicate, in addition to reading the Morning and Evening Prayers and attending Vespers the night before, reads three devotional canons and an akathist.

The original akathist was composed in honor of the Theotokos and is called simply "the Akathist" and is sung at matins on the fifth Saturday of Great Lent, which the Triodion identifies as the "Saturday of the Akathist".

Byzantine Akathistos hymn, Nicosia 2004, the series, "Classical Orthodox Melourgia".