Scroll down the page and you will find some really nice CDs & DVDs, both music and prayer.
From the Little Mountain: Reflections on Orthodox Christian Monasticism
Now in Greek & Russian Versions too!
A brand new DVD from the Hermitage of the Holy Cross in West Virginia!From the Little Mountain takes you through a year at the Hermitage of the Holy Cross in West Virginia. This video is an attempt to portray some of the beauty and struggle of monastic life using quotes from the Scriptures and the Holy Fathers of the Orthodox Church. Insights about monasticism from one of the senior monks at the monastery are given as you are visually taken through the Church liturgical year and the changing seasons in the mountains. This is a unique documentary of an Orthodox monastery in the 21st century, but the imagery and principles set forth are as ancient (and relevant) as those written by the 6th century instructor of monks, Abba Dorotheos.NTSC format, 32 minutes, color Also available in Russian and Greek!!
ОТ ГОРЫ МАЛЫЯ Размышления о православном монашестве
Εις Όρος Μικρόν Απανθίσματα Χριστιανικού Ορθόδοξου Μοναχισμού
English Version DVD
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$20.00
Russian Version DVD
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$20.00
Greek Version DVD
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$20.00
Holy Pascha at St Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery DVD
This is a beautifully produced DVD of scenes from Holy Saturday and Pascha 2007, at Saint Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery in Arizona. You will be moved by watching the reverence of the monks, and listening to the chanting of the prayers. 60 minutes Available in two formats (NTSC for North America, and PAL for European).
Pascha DVD NTSC North America
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$19.00
Pascha DVD Europe PAL
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$19.00
Oasis in the Desert
From our friends at St Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery in Arizona comes this exquisite DVD video, showing the grounds and the churches of St. Anthony’s Monastery with Byzantine chanting from St. Anthony’s Vigil CD in the background. Duration 47 min.
North American NTSC format
Oasis DVD
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$19.00
Ostrov (The Island) The
best representation of Orthodox monastic life ever portrayed on film. The story
begins in northern Russia during World War II. A Russian coal barge with
a two-man crew is captured by a Nazi patrol boat. The Nazis force the
young cowardly Russian furnace stoker, Anatolii, to shoot his captain.
The Nazis blow up the barge but Anatolii is rescued by monks from a nearby
monastery. Anatolii spends the rest of his life repenting in sorrow, and
through this repentance becomes a God-bearing Fool-for-Christ who, with his
God-inspired insights into human hearts, gives miraculous help to suffering
people who come to him for aid. Nearing death Anatolii’s own suffering is
resolved through a miraculous manifestation of forgiveness.Very powerful, and moving story! [DVD-9,
NTSC, Widescreen, 112 minutes]In
Russian with English subtitles, and instructions.
DVD
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$25.00
St. Nikolai the Serb
Saint Nikolai the Serb is a
wonderfully produced documentary depicting various aspects of the life and
works of a truly monumental 20th-century saint!Nearly 2 hours concerning the life of this prolific writer and
Saint!
The DVD contains a bonus material - a short film without sound of 1939,
documenting consecration of the church in Silopai by Bishop Nicholas
Velimirovic.
In
five languages - English, Serbian, French, German, and Russian 112
minutes (plus exquisite footage of a 1939 silent film - consecration of church in
Silopaj) Produced Beograd - Berlin 2006 (by the Serbian Orthodox Church Community
Berlin) NOTE - DVD is in Format: PAL (Playable on PCs, Laptops and
"All-Regions" DVD Players
DVD - PAL format
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$24.99
The Life of St. John Maximovitch: Archbishop of Shanghai and San Frsancisco
This brand new documentary is the first of its kind on St John
Maximovitch. Containing dozens of never before published photographs,
and with interviews with many who knew St. John very well, this DVD is
very inspiring and a fitting tribute of this wonderworker who is loved
by Orthodox Christians all over the world. Even those thoroughly
familiar with the life of St John will find this documentary contains
much that they haven’t seen or heard before. 57 minutes
DVD
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$20.00
Akathist of Thanksgiving Accompanying book containing the words and music now available - comb bound. You can order below. This is one of the most beautiful CD's we have ever heard, and a MUST for your car! St. Ignatius Orthodox Church in Madison Wisconsin completed the recording of the Akathist of Thanksgiving “Glory to God for All Things” in October of 2002, making the singing of this most poignant liturgical text available for the first time on compact disk. St. Ignatius celebrates the Akathist with Little Compline several times per year, especially on the eve of American Thanksgiving. It also contains the complete text to the Akathist and Small Compline.
Background behind the Akathist:
"Since the fall of Communism the Church, and the entire world, has come to a more complete knowledge of the crimes against humanity committed in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union by those dedicated to the destruction of Tsarist rule, the Orthodox and other Christian Churches, and religion in general, for the cause of atheist “revolution.”An estimated 45 million people and more were slain out of a programmed hatred and paranoia.Terror, betrayal, distrust, isolation, self-preservation, hopelessness and faithlessness were at the core of the new, Godless social (dis)order created by the Bolsheviks.We venerate those Christians who refused to compromise their faith in Jesus Christ and who ultimately suffered with their Lord - hundreds of thousands of names, some known, though most known only to God, as Passion-bearers, New-martyrs, and Saints.Books such as “Father Arseny: Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual Father” (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press) and “The Gulag Archipelago” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Harper & Row) give graphic insight into the extreme suffering and heroic courage of those who lived faithfully amid this horror.It should be a duty for all of us to become more familiar with this unfortunate human history.
The Archpriest Gregory Petroff was a man who lived and died under this madness.How can we understand the senseless cruelty and slaughter that took place in Communist Russia?We can only by faith in God’s eternal and saving providence.“Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.If they persecuted me, they will persecute you’” (John 15:20).It is said that Fr. Gregory was murdered while in a prison camp, but not before he was able to pen the poignant AKATHIST OF THANKSGIVING, giving to the Church and to the world light from great darkness, reminding us that even in the midst of frightful suffering true Christian conviction and courage are unconquerable.We are indeed thankful for this Akathist; our hearts are lifted by it.We offer these prayers to the glory of God and in honor of those “men, women and children, flowers of the spiritual meadow of Russia, who blossomed forth wondrously in time of grievous persecution” (from the Troparion to the New Martyrs of Russia)." Fr. Patrick J. Kinder
Thanksgiving Akathist CD
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$16.99
Book with music and words
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$10.00
Morning Prayers and The Prayers Before Sleep
Here, pronounced clearly and calmly by a monk from the Hermitage of the Holy Cross, are the basic daily prayers said by all Orthodox Christians of the Russian Tradition. We hope that this recording will help those who, through a multitude of worldly cares and responsibilities, are sometimes tempted to skip their daily prayers. Text taken from the Jordanville Prayerbook of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.
Hermitage of the Holy Cross English
CD
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$14.00
Orthodox Psalter Psalms 3 CD Set A wonderful 3 audio CD set of The Psalter. A brand new product from our friends at the Hermitage of the Holy Cross (2007). They have recorded the reading of the Psalter in english on three compact discs (214 minutes). The text of the Psalms was translated by Holy TransfigurationMonastery in Brookline, MA, from the 1821 Moscow edition of the Greek Septuagint Psalter, the most trusted and reliable of all extant printings of the the traditional Greek text of Orthodox Church. The Psalms are read in a manner common to Orthodox prayer services: a simple intonation minimizing any possibility of subjective interpretation. The arrangement of the Psalms into tracks on this disc also follows the liturgical practice of the Orthodox Church, where the whole Psalter is divided into twenty Kathismata and each Kathisma into three stases. Each stasis is concluded with a Trinitarian Doxology. The Psalter is read by a monk of the Hermitage of the Holy Cross. The packaging is full-color, with the three discs attached to a tri-fold “digi-pak”, all of which slides into a sturdy slipcover. Our hope is that those who purchase this recording will reap years of spiritual benefit from the use of the recording, which is an excellent accompaniment on a daily commute, road trip, or a day at work (from the Hermitage of the Holy Cross).
Disc I Kathisma I-VII
Disc II Kathisma VIII-XIV
Disc III Kathisma XV-XX
3 CD Package
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$39.99
Rule of Preparation for Holy Communion
Prayerfully chanted by a monk from the Hermitage of the Holy Cross, this CD contains: The Canons to the Savior, the Mother of God, and the Guardian Angel - The Akathist to the Mother of God - the Psalms, Canon, and Prayers for Holy Communion. These are the prayers that Russian Orthodox Christians say in order to spiritually prepare themselves to participate in the awesome Mystery of the Divine Liturgy. Text taken from the Jordanville Prayerbook.
Hermitage of the Holy Cross English, 66 minutes
CD
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$14.00
Service of the Supplication Canon to our Father among the Saints Nektarios of Pentapolis
From the Byzantine Choir of Odigitria comes this beautiful Service of the Supplication Canon to our Father among the Saints Nektarios of Pentapolis (Poem of Gerasimos, Monk of Small St Anne’s Holy Mountain Athos).This CD has become a personal favorite of mine!The words of this Canon, along with the Byzantine style chant are riveting to say the least!
Call to Prayer
Blessing, Psalm 142
God is the Lord
Psalm 50 Odes I & III
Petitions of the Priest
Odes IV, V, & VI
Kontakion
Hymns of Ascent
Gospel of St. John
Odes VII, VIII & IX
Megalynarion
Holy God . . . Our Father
Apolytikion
Dismissal Prayer
"Of All that Hasten . . ."
57 min
Nektarios CD
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$16.00
Living the Orthodox Worldview “Living the
Orthodox Worldview” is a recording of a lecture given by Fr. Seraphim Rose at
the 1982 St. Herman Pilgrimage at the St. Herman Monastery in Platina,
California. It was the final pastoral talk of Fr. Seraphim’s life—the fruit of
his spiritual growth as an Orthodox Christian and his matured outlook as an
Orthodox pastor. It contains many of the themes that he emphasized during the
final years of his life: the need to have one’s Orthodox Faith enter into and
transform the whole of one’s life, not just certain compartments of it; the
need to cultivate a loving, merciful, and forgiving heart, to be simple and
innocent in one’s spiritual life; the need to have a conscious Orthodox
Faith, an Orthodox worldview, so that one will not be easily influenced
by worldly ways of thinking and behaving; the need to be aware of the signs of
the times and of the totalitarian demands that the modern world makes on one;
the need to be down-to-earth and at the same time to have one’s heart in the
other world with Christ; the need to nourish oneself with the Divine services,
the Holy Mysteries, the Holy Scriptures, the Lives of Saints, and the writings
of the Holy Fathers; the need to form the soul through the best artistic
expressions of Christian culture, including Western Christian culture; and
finally the need to take lessons from the experience of suffering Orthodox
Christians behind the iron curtain.
“Living the Orthodox Worldview,” is the first in a series
of digitally-mastered audio recordings of lectures and talks given by Fr.
Seraphim.
Five Akathists recorded by the Sretensky Monastery Choir: to the
Theotokos, St. Nicholas, St. Seraphim, Blessed Matrona of Moscow, and
the Divine Sufferings of the Saviour. N.B.: This disc contains mp3 files. It will play on all computers, but not on all standard CD players
Sretensky Monastery Choir
Slavonic 3:51:57
Audio CD
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$18.95
Favorite Songs, A Gift to Our Friends
The Sretensky Choir's concert repertoire includes folk songs as well
as Church music. Here are fifteen favorites from Russia and Ukraine.
Russian, Ch. Slavonic
52 minutes
Audio CD
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$18.95
The All-Night Vigil - Selected Hymns
Hymnody of the All-Night Vigil, includes many traditional chants of the various
monasteries, as well as arrangements by various Russian composers. Another outstanding CD from the Sretensky Monastery Choir.
Ch. Slavonic
67 minutes
Audio CD
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$16.95
The Bright Resurrection of Christ - Paschal Matins
Familiar hymns of Pascha, beautifully chanted by the Sretensky Monastery
Choir. This recording surpasses others of its kind in clarity and
execution.
Church Slavonic
67 minutes
Audio CD
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$18.95
Ancient Hymns of Pascha This recording by the monastic choir from the Hermitage of the Holy Cross includes all the hymns of Paschal Matins, including the Paschal Canon in its entirety, and a few of the special hymns from the Paschal Divine Liturgy. In addition to Russian chant, the CD also includes chant of Byzantine and Georgian origin. Chanted in English.
Hermitage of the Holy Cross Monastic Choir English, 53 minutes
Pascha CD
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$17.00
Baptist and Forerunner: The Divine Liturgy of the Synaxsis of St John the Baptist
Baptist and Forerunner is The Divine Liturgy CD of the Synaxis of St. John the Baptist and sung by an ensemble of male chanters from St. Lawrence Orthodox Church in Felton, CA (Jerusalem Patriarchate). A Festal Celebration of the Hand by which our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ was Baptized!
1. Great Doxology Byzantine--Tone Six
2. Troparion – Synaxis Byzantine--Tone Two
3. Troparion- Theophany Byzantine--Tone One
4. Great Litany Byzantine Melody
5. First Antiphon (Festal) Znamenny Chant
6. Little Litany
7. Second Antiphon (Festal) Znamenny Chant
8. Only Begotten Son Greek Melody
9. Little Litany
10. Third Antiphon Theophany Troparion with Psalm Verses
11. Come Let Us Worship Byzantine--Tone Two
12. Troparion – Theophany Byzantine--Tone One
13. Troparion – Synaxis Byzantine--Tone Two
14. Kontakion – Synaxis Byzantine--Tone Six
15. Kontakion – Theophany Melody: "Today the Virgin..."
16. As Many as Have Been Baptized Byzantine--Tone One
17. Prokeimenon: "The Righteous..."Znamenny Chant-Tone Seven
18. The Epistle (ACTS 19:1-8)
19. Alleluia Znamenny Chant--Tone Five
20. The Holy Gospel (John 1:29-34)
21. The Cherubic Hymn Themes from Byzantine Tones One and Six
22. The Anaphora Znamenny Chant
23. Theotokion (Festal) Canon Tone Two
24. One is Holy Serbian Melody
25. Communion Hymn - Theophany Byzantine--Tone One
26. Communion Hymn – Synaxis Choral Arrangement
27. Festal Troparion Byzantine--Tone One
28. Let Our Mouths Be Filled With Your Praise Byzantine-- Tone Five
29. Ambon Prayers / Blessed Be the Name (Choral Arrangement) / Dismissal
30. Magnification – Theophany Obikhod
31. Sessional Hymn following the Magnification Melody: "Lifted up..."
CD
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$17.00
Christ Is Born
Recorded at the Hermitage of the Holy Cross in 2004, this CD contains many of the hymns for the Feast of the Nativity of the Lord. The music is taken primarily from the Great Znamenny melodies of the Festal Menaion, printed in St. Petersburg by the Holy Synod of the Russian Church in 1900.
Hermitage of the Holy Cross Monastic Choir English, 52 Minutes
CD
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$17.00
Chrysostom
The NEW & second cd from the St John of San Francisco Men's Chorale! Their voices are wonderful, surely to uplift your soul! Sung in English & Church Slavonic.
1) Bless the Lord, O my soul - A. Kastalsky 2) Blessed is the man - Pochaev 3) 1st Tone Dogmatikon - Znamenny chant, harm. A. Kastalsky 4) O Gentle Light - Georgian chant 5) The Lord is King - Archimandrite Matthew 6) Litany at Litiya - Greek chant 7) Theotokos, Virgin, Rejoice - Deacon S. Trubachev 8) Praise ye the name of the Lord - M. Konstantinoff 9) Megalynarion to St. John Chrysostom- customary 10) Blessed art Thou, O Lord - Znamenny chant, harm. B. Ledkovsky 11) Today is salvation - Znamenny chant 12) Greeting of the Bishop with bells:It is truly meet - Greek chant, harm. A. Lvov 13) Vesting of the Bishop (a) Go up the mountain - Deacon S. Trubachev (b) Thy soul shall rejoice - A. Lvov 14) Ton Despotin - A. Lvov 15) 1st Antiphon: Bless the Lord, O my soul - Ancient chant 16) Beatitudes - J. Gardner 17) We venerate Thy Cross - Znamenny chant 18) Prokimenon in the 1st tone - Kiev-Pechersk Lavra chant 19) Alleluia, in the 2nd tone - Byzantine 20) Cherubic Hymn - 17th Century melody “the thief saw” 21) A mercy of peace - Kievan chant harm. A. Kastalsky 22) It is truly meet - Ryl Monastery 23) Our Father - Smirnov 24) In everlasting remembrance - N.N. Kedrov-the son 25) Troparion to St. John Chrysostom - Valaam Monastery Chant 26) Memory Eternal - customary 27) Festive Bell Peal
Audio CD
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$18.00
Rejoice in Song The first CD from the St John of San Francisco Men's Chorale, and what a beautiful first CD! Sung in Church Slavonic:
Ton Despotin - Zosima Hermitage
Troparion to St. John - Lavra chant, arr. Deacon V. Gan
O Come Let Us Worship God Our King - S. Ryabchenko
Adam Sat Before Paradise - Hieromonk Vissarion
By the Waters of Babylon - anchient chant, arr. A. Kastalsky
Turn Not Thy Face Away - Znamenny chant, arr. G. F. Lvovsky
My Soul, My Shoul, Arise - ancient chant
O Lord of Hosts, Be With Us - Solovetsk monastery chant
Now the Power of Heaven - ancient chant, harm. G. F. Lvovsky
Kontakion to St. John - Lavra chant, arr. Deacon V. Gan
Glory to God in the Highest - Znamenny chant
Down from the tree - A. Kastalsky
The Good Thief - Kiev-Pechersk Lavra chant
Hymns to the Saints of Russia - Kiev-Pechersk Lavra chant
Arise, O God - Protopriest P. Turchaninov
To Thee, the Champion Leader - Greek chant, arr. Deacon S. Trubachev
From the East of the sun to the West - Archimandrite Matfey (Mormyl)
In the Flesh Thou Didst Fall Asleep - Greek chant, harm. Deacon S. Trubachev
The Angel Cried - Valaam chant, arr. M. A. Balakirev
Let God arise - Znamenny chant, harm. B. Ledkovsky, arr. Archimandrite Matfey (Mormyl)
God Grant You Many Years - chant of the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Novgorod
Audio CD
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$18.00
The Divine Liturgies - Byzantine Music in English
From St Anthony's Monastery comes this fine CD of Byzantine music in English. This audio CD contains selections chanted by three Athonite monks of our monastery.
This CD has music for the doxology, the typica, trisagion hymns, and several other hymns. Included with the CD is a booklet containing the text for all the hymns.
This audio CD also contains all the sheet music in both Byzantine and Western notation that we used for this recording. The sheet music is included on the CD as PDF files that can be viewed and printed with a Macintosh or Windows computer.
Audio CD
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$18.00
The Eyes of All Look to Thee With Hope The CD includes 24 selections from Matins, Divine Liturgy, and two
paraliturgical pieces. It represents many of the different styles sung
at the monastery, Valaam and Byzantine chant, as well as music
specially composed to meet the needs of the community. It is our
monastery's vision that a uniquely American chant will gradually
develop, growing from the seeds of our inherited traditions. As they
take root in American soil, this chant will become an organic hybrid of
different influences from our own folk melodies and harmonies, rooted
in the traditions of our ancestors and drawing from the springs of the
memorable melodies of the Carpatho-Rus and the timeless and
other-worldly modalities of western Gregorian chant and it counterpart,
Byzantine chant.
Monastery of St. John of San Francisco Choir, English 44 minutes
CD
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$16.99
The Russian Old Rite Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in Znamenny Chant The Church of Our Lord's Ascension in Gervais, Oregon, a parish of priested Old Believers under Archbishop Sofronii (jurisdiction of the Belokrinitsa Hierarchy of Old Believers, based in Braila, Romania), is pleased to announce the release of their first recording: a 2-CD set entitled "The Russian Old Rite Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in Znamenny Chant." The entire service is sung in Church Slavonic. They have recorded the complete Divine Liturgy (sung in unison by a men's ensemble) for a typical Sunday, including three additional selections of alternate melodies.
2 CDS
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$21.00
What Earthly Joy What Earthly Joy sung by an ensemble of male chanters from St. Lawrence Orthodox Church in Felton, CA (Jerusalem Patriarchate) comes a collection of special melodies from Lent, Pascha, Sunday Matins and the Dormition; utilizing a variety of Orthodox Chant forms, from Byzantine to Znamenny - Bulgarian to Valaam.WONDERFUL voices!
1. Dormition Doxasticon Great Znamenny--All 8 Tones
2. Dormition: Post Feast Stichera Melody: "Hail, O Life bearing Cross..."
3. Dormition: Post Feast Aposticha Melody: "O House of Ephratha..."
4. Agne Parthene Byzantine--Tone 5
5. Beneath Your Compassion Kiev Caves Monastery Chant
6. What Earthly Joy Remains Bulgarion--Tone 1 Automelon
7. Now the Powers Byzantine--Tone 6
8. God is the Lord Byzantine--Tone 6
9. Resurrectional Troparion and Theotokion Byzantine-Tone 6
10. Polyeleos Choral Arrangement
11. By the Waters of Babylon Znamenny Chant
12. Blessed Are You, O Lord (Evlogitaria) Byzantine--Tone 5
13. Jerusalem Troparion #5 Byzantine--Tone 5
14. From My Youth Valaam Chant--Tone 4
15. The Resurrection Hymn Byzantine--Tone 6
16. Psalm 50 (51)
17. Open to Me the Gates of Repentence Russian Choral Arrangement
18. Antiphon 15 (Today, He Who Hung the Earth) Byzantine-Tone 6
19. Joseph of Arimathea Tone 2 Automelon
20. Joseph, Together with Nicodemus Pskov Melody-Tone 5
