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Resurrectional Tones. The Church music of the Eastern Church is based upon eight tones. Each week has its appointed tone. On Saturday evening of the Week of Light (the eve of the Sunday of Saint Thomas), the cycle of tones commences with Tone One; and so, week by week, the sequence continues through the successive tones from one to eight, changing to a new tone every Saturday evening, and returning to Tone One after Tone Eight. more>>>
The funeral liturgies for the Ukrainian Catholic Church are utilized at some of the most vulnerable times in the lives of her faithful. Literally confronted face-to-face with death, the Church’s funeral services neither deny death (as our contemporary culture tends to do) nor do they reveal the reality that is death. Instead, the funeral services are merely the final liturgical events in an entire lifetime of liturgy and worship of God. more>>>
The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts is a divine service which the Christians of the Byzantine churches celebrate on Wednesdays and Fridays of all 40 days of the Great Fast. The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts is an evening service. To be more precise, it is a partaking of the Eucharist after Vespers. more>>>