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In 2004, John Maddex founded Ancient Faith Radio after a career as the division manager of Moody Institute's 35 radio stations and radio work for Focus on the Family.In 2008, under the leadership of Maddex, AFR combined with Conciliar Press (formed in 1977 as part of what became the Evangelical Orthodox Church) to form Conciliar Media Ministries, which, in 2013, was renamed Ancient Faith ...
The Prayer of Jonah the Prophet (Jonah 2:3–10) The Prayer of the Three Holy Children (Daniel 3:26-56)* The Song of the Three Holy Children (The Benedicite, Daniel 3:57-88)* The Song of the Theotokos (The Magnificat, Luke 1:46–55) and the Prayer of Zacharias the father of the Forerunner (The Benedictus, Luke 1:68–79)
Orthodox Tewahedo music refers to sacred music of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The music was long associated with Zema (chant), developed by the six century composer Yared . It is essential part of liturgical service in the Church and classified into fourteen anaphoras, with the normal use being the Twelve Apostles .
It is the greatest form of prayer and the most representative feature of the Syrian Orthodox church. [6] [1] Chant is integral to the Syrian church and has been a practice that has created a distinction in the Syrian practice of worship to that of its neighboring Christian orders. [6] [1]
As most actions in Orthodox worship, processions are most often used to commemorate events and also, of course, to display items of religious, and particularly Orthodox, significance. Their most fundamental purpose however is, as everything in Orthodox worship, to aid in the edification and salvation of the worshippers by giving glory to God.
Vouchsafe, O Lord (Greek Καταξίωσον, Κύριε, Latin Dignare, Domine) are the initial words of a prayer from the Matins and Vespers service of the Eastern Orthodox, [citation needed] and the former Prime and Compline of the Roman and Eastern Catholic Churches, and for Matins and Vespers (or Morning and Evening Prayer) of the Anglican, Lutheran, and other liturgical Protestant churches.
The semantron (Greek: σήμαντρον) is a percussion instrument used in Eastern, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic monasteries to summon the monastics to prayer or at the start of a procession. It is also known as a semandron, semanteriom (σημαντήριον), simantra (σήμαντρα), xylon (ξύλον) and talanto ...
In Common Worship used by the Church of England, the Trisagion is used principally as a concluding prayer of the Litany in the following form: Holy God, holy and strong, holy and immortal, have mercy upon us. It is also used in the Good Friday liturgy in the same way as in the Roman Catholic Church.