Syriac in Georgian Chant

Here is an amazingly beautiful setting of the Trisagion in East Syriac sung Georgian-style. It seems that part of the Assyrian population of the Republic of Georgia who belong to the Georgian Orthodox Church still use some Syriac liturgically.

Here the same priest, Fr Seraphim, reading the Gospel in East Syriac.

Video of Patriarch John X's First Liturgy in Beirut

Open to me the doors of repentance- Fr. Pandeleimon (Farah)

المسيح قام

المسيح ولد فمجدوه

يا يسوع الحياة

From perhaps one of the most famous converts to Orthodoxy of modern times.

اليوم علق على الخشبة الذي علق الارض على المياه

الختن

Arabic Music and Orthodox Chant (link)

There's a very worthwhile article about the relationship between traditional Arabic music and Orthdox chant written by a practitioner of the former.


It can be found here.

Downloadable Divine Liturgy in Arabic

UPDATE:  Here is an excellent, fully-voweled  pdf of the the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom in Arabic.

The indispensable Cypriot blog NOCTOC comes through with another gem--- a link to a download of the entire Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in Arabic. The priest serving is Fr. Pandeleimon Farah, abbot of the Monastery of the Theotokos at Hamatoura and the choir is from the Ecclesiastic Music School of Mt. Lebanon.

It can be downloaded by linking from here. And if you like it, buy it.


For liturgical texts online in Arabic, go here, with the text of the Divine Liturgy in pdf here.

A new link

Sorry to all that I've been neglecting this blog for the past couple weeks... I should be back with some new translations and a book review soon.

It's been brought to my attention by a reader that I hadn't added the link for the Archdiocese of Tripoli. This has now been corrected in the list of links to your right... For those of you interested in more information about Metropolitan Elias Kurban who fell asleep in the Lord just about forty days ago, there's a number of tributes to him there written by a variety of folks in Arabic, English and French. Also, if you scroll further down, there's about a score of links to Youtube videos of his renowned chanting. So go, look at it here.

NOCTOC on Orthodoxy in Lebanon

So, I've gone through the archives of the NOCTOC blog and I've made an index of its articles about Orthodoxy in Lebanon... There's some really great material here and especially some wonderful pictures, so do go and browse through it!

Arab Icons

The Lebanese Orthodox

St. Jacob of Hamatoura

The Town of Safita and the Valley of the Christians

Downloadable Paraclisis to St. Jacob of Hamatoura

Monasticism:

A biography of Fr. Ephrem Kyriakos.
Hamatoura.
The Monastery of St. George in Amioun.
Dayr al-Natour in Enfeh.
St. Memas in South Lebanon.
The Monasteries of Douma.
Monastery of St. Elias in Dhour al-Shoueir.
Deir el-Harf.
Monastery of St. Demetrios in Kousba.
Dayr al-Nourieh.
St. George al-Humayrah in Syria.
Kaftoun.
Fr. Pandeleimon of Hamatoura.
The Rum of Syria and the Greek Orthodox Monastery of Saidnaya
The Monastery of St. Jacob the Persian in Deddeh, Lebanon


Churches
Church of St. John in Amioun
Saint George and his Churches in Lebanon

Even more links can be found here!

عذراء يا أم الإله

From the wonderful French-language blog of the parish of St. Ignatius in Nice: O Virgin Pure sung by Archimandrite Pandeleimon (Farah), higumen of the monastery of Hamatoura.