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Blessing of the Rectory - 9/11/2022

Bishop Kurt will be the main celebrant at the Divine Liturgy to be offered on Sunday 9/11/2022.

Being the 21st anniversary of 9/11, a panachida will be offered in memory of those who died that day and in the service of our country in the aftermath.

Bishop Kurt will bless the newly restored rectory after services. A picnic on the grounds will follow.

Parishioners - past and present - as well as friends of the Resurrection parish - are urged to attend this joyous occasion.

Memorial Day 2020

Today Fr Vladyslav will offer the Divine Liturgy in memory of the deceased fallen and service members of our parish family.

The propers for this morning's liturgy can be accessed using this link: 20200525 Memorial Day DL

We are still in the octave of the Ascension of Our Lord, so the propers are a combination of the feast day propers and those for the Divine Liturgy for the departed.

For the final hymn, we will take the first and third verses of America the Beautiful, the third verse being particularly on point for today's national memorial.

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness,
And every gain divine!

A first for Resurrection Smithtown

video-streamed Divine Liturgy

Fifth Sunday of the Great Fast

Sunday of Saint Mary of Egypt

29th March 2020

https://www.facebook.com/resurrectionsmithtown/videos/607862666461983/

Live Concert @ Resurrection Smithtown | LYRA

LYRA (their second performance @ Resurrection - Smithtown and first of their current U.S. tour)

Broadcast of [Orthodox] Advent Lessons & Carols from Long Island

On Saturday, December 8 at 6:00 PM Central, Ancient Faith Radio, St. Vladimir's Theological Seminary, and Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in East Meadow, NY are happy to present Lessons and Carols. Join us for an evening of carols, hymns, and scripture readings in preparation for the celebration of the Holy Nativity of our Lord. Under the direction of Robin Freeman and Nicholas Reeves, the combined choirs will sing familiar carols and liturgical hymns interspersed with readings from the Old and New Testaments.

https://www.ancientfaith.com/lessons-carols

Advent Lessons & Carols

Our chant group will be joining the choirs and singers of our neighboring churches of St. Thomas of Canterbury (Episcopalian) and St. Andrew (Lutheran) in the rendering of a traditional service of Anglican origin on Friday, December 7, 2018 @ 7:30pm. The service is being hosted by and held at St. Thomas the Apostle.

Hymns will include one of our own:

Come O Come Now Our Redeemer [sheet music (S/A/T/B)]
Recorded performance by the Schola Cantorum of St Peter the Apostle

Other hymns from Western tradition being rehearsed by the joint choirs include:

Rejoice! Rejoice!
Adam Lay Ybounden
Carol of the Advent (People Look East)

Please join us in prayer and fellowship with our Christian neighbors for a wonderful evening featuring Scripture and sacred music!

Pascal Homily of St. John Chrysostom

Let all Pious men and all lovers of God rejoice in the splendor of this feast; let the wise servants blissfully enter into the joy of their Lord; let those who have borne the burden of Lent now receive their pay, and those who have toiled since the first hour, let them now receive their due reward; let any who came after the third hour be grateful to join in the feast, and those who may have come after the sixth, let them not be afraid of being too late, for the Lord is gracious and He receives the last even as the first.  He gives rest to him who comes on the eleventh hour as well as to him who has toiled since the first: yes, He has pity on the last and He serves the first; He rewards the one and is generous to the other; he repays the deed and praises the effort.    Come you all: enter into the joy of your Lord.  You the first and you the last, receive alike your reward; you rich and you poor, dance together; you sober and you weaklings, celebrate the day; you who have kept the fast and you who have not, rejoice today.  The table is richly loaded: enjoy its royal banquet.  The calf is a fatted one: let no one go away hungry.  All of you enjoy the banquet of faith; all of you receive the riches of his goodness.    Let no one grieve over his poverty, for the universal kingdom has been revealed; let no one weep over his sins, for pardon has shone from the grave; let no one fear death, for the death of our Savior has set us free: He has destroyed it by enduring it, He has despoiled Hades by going down into its kingdom, He has angered it by allowing it to taste of his flesh.    When Isaiah foresaw all this, he cried out: "O Hades, you have been angered by encountering Him in the nether world."  Hades is angered because frustrated, it is angered because it has been mocked, it is angered because it has been destroyed, it is angered because it has been reduced to naught, it is angered because it is now captive.  It seized a body, and lo! it discovered God; it seized earth, and, behold! it encountered heaven; it seized the visible, and was overcome by the invisible.     O death, where is your sting?  O Hades, where is your victory?  Christ is risen and life is freed, Christ is risen and the tomb is emptied of the dead: for Christ, being risen from the dead, has become the Leader and Reviver of those who had fallen asleep.  To Him be glory and power for ever and ever.  Amen.

Caoineadh na dtrí Muire

In remembrance of a fond Holy & Great Saturday tradition of past days @ Resurrection Smithtown ...

Thank you, Father Jack!

Twice in recent memory ...

... but not again until 2157 !!!

CNS: When Good Friday falls on the Feast of the Annunciation

RH: Good Friday and Annunciation Celebrated Together in Eastern Churches

Exaltation of the Holy Cross

We bow to Your cross, O Lord, and we glorify Your holy resurrection!

On Sunday, September 13th, 2015 we will celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation.

This date is also our traditional patronal feast day, given that it was the day on which the dedication of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem (also called the Church of the Resurrection) is commemorated.

As part of our celebration tomorrow, our new Pastor, Reverend Tyler A. Strand, plans to make the solemn blessing of the four corners of the earth with the Holy Cross, an ancient tradition in churches of the Byzantine Rite and other Eastern & Oriental Christian traditions.

The text and music for the ritual blessing, taken from the propers of Matins for the feast, can be found here.

Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin mary

appropriate for the Feast (from our Chant Repertiore page)...

Para-liturgical Hymn: Joyfully, We Now Sing [English]

Cherubim Hymn (to same melody): Podoben: Spivajme Veselo [Slavonic]

Beatification of Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich

O Venerable Mother, Miriam Teresa, pray to God for us!

Feast of the Dormition

We have prepared a choral arrangement (SATB) of Rejoice, O Purest Mother (Veselisja, Vo Čistot'i), a well-known hymn traditionally associated with this Great Feast of the Church.

The melodic theme of this hymn may also be embraced in traditional fashion by chanting the Cherubim Hymn and Anamnesis Acclamation to the same melody. This can also be done in the post-festive period.

On Mount Tabor - The Feast of the Transfiguration

Propers, hymns and hymn selection (order of worship) for the Solemn Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ (Wednesday, August 6, 2014), are available on the For the Faithful resource page.

Epistle - 2nd Peter 1:10-19
Gospel - Matthew 17:1-9

Festal Tone

NOTE: We have prepared and included a para-liturgical hymn for the Feast of the Transfiguration entitled "On Mount Tabor". The melody is taken from the hymn "Na Tavori Preobrazivsja" included in the 1969 Prešov hymnal, Duchovňi Pisňi compiled by Fr. Štefan Papp. The English lyrics are an adapted translation of those from the original hymn, prepared with the generous assistance of Susan Tychnowicz, a member of our parish chant group.

The Basics of Byzantine-Ruthenian Chant | Upcoming Review Sessions @ Resurrection (Smithtown, NY) Parish

REPRINT OF EMAIL TO CHOIR & CHANTERS - LONG ISLAND PARISHES

Wednesday, the 7th of May in the Year of Our Lord 2014

Dear friends & fellow chanters:

Christ is risen!

By popular demand, we will be beginning a series of evening sessions over the summer and into the fall to review the basics of chant in our tradition and Metropolitan Church.

As decided with the Smithtown chanters this past Sunday, and as will be announced in the parish bulletins in Smithtown and Westbury this weekend, we have scheduled the first of these sessions for Thursday, May 15th @ 7PM.

These sessions will be open to all interested, and it is envisioned that we will follow a basic curriculum as suggested by the Metropolitan Cantor Institute for review of the settings and text as it appears in and was intended to be used from the green pew book issued by the Archeparchy in 2006. This has been our official text since the feast of Sts. Peter & Paul in June 2007. Despite its near seven years of availability and use, many parishes and faithful still struggle with the "new" text and revised notation for a number of standard hymns and responses.

While these sessions will be open to all interested (our chanters, parishioners, faithful & friends), it will be geared to ensure we as chanters and active faithful have a firm command of the basics, as a foundation for later sessions on harmonized chant and choral works for our chant group.

I plan to consult with my regular contacts at the MCI, as well as our own local cantors, for setting the curriculum forward and will publish the same ASAP, but no later than the Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord. The schedule and curriculum will be highlighted regularly on our blog: resurrectionchanters.blogspot.com

Please plan to attend if you can, and coax as many of your fellow parishioners as you can to come as well. You all know who the chanters are among us!

For the Faithful: Scheduled Services for the Great Fast, Holy Week,Pascha & Bright Week (2014)

Our For the Faithful resource page now includes the complete schedule of services for the Resurrection (Smithtown, NY) parish for the remainder of the Great Fast, Holy Week, Pascha and Bright Week, through and including Thomas Sunday (the Second Paschal Sunday).

Of special note, the Feast of the Annunciation of the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary is next Tuesday, March 25th. We will celebrate Vespers with Divine Liturgy on the evening of this Great Feast at 7PM. NOTE: the Feast of the Annunciation is a Holy Day of Obligation for all Byzantine Catholics of the Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh.

Hymns, propers & order of worship guides for upcoming services will be linked to this page in coming days, with announcements on periodic updates made via blog post.

We look forward to joining with you in prayer as we await and soon celebrate the joyful message of the Resurrection, our patronal feast!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

In honor of our dear pastor of Irish descent and the original patron saint of our own church, we wish all of our friends the luck of the Irish today and always!

Come Now All You Faithful

As we begin the third week of the Great Fast, we will be resuming our blog ministry in anticipation of Pascha and beyond.

Please note that propers and order of worship for each upcoming Sunday will be posted here, but will also be available via link on the main page of the Resurrection Smithtown website, usually by Wednesday evening.

Please join us once again in exploring the richness of our plainchant tradition!

Christos voskrese! Voistinnu voskrese!

On the patronal feast of our parish, we wish you all a joyous Easter and Paschal season!