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| Type of Hymn | Incipit(s) | Mode | Byzantine Notation | Staff Notation | Recording | Text | Language Register | Composer |
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| DECEMBER 1 Our Righteous Father Philaret the Almsgiver |
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| Glory at Lord, I have cried | "Who would not call thee blessed" | 2nd | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Glory at the Aposticha | "Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous" | 4th | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Idiomela at the Entreaty | Multiple | Not Specified | Gabriel Cremeens | |||||
| Idiomelon after the Matins Gospel | Pl. 2nd | Not Specified | Gabriel Cremeens | |||||
| Glory at the Praises | "Rejoice in the Lord today, shining with grace" | Pl. 4th | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Not Specified | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| DECEMBER 2 (alternate) Saint Porphyrios |
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| All Idiomela and Doxastica | Multiple | Sign up or Login to Download | Fr. Seraphim (Dedes) | Modern English | Gabriel Cremeens | |||
| DECEMBER 4 The Holy Great Martyr Barbara Our Righteous Father John of Damascus |
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| All Vespers Doxastica | "Forsaking country, family, and possessions" "Come, O ye people, let us honour with hymns" "O righteous Father" |
Multiple | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| All Matins Idiomela and Doxastica | "By walking in the way of the athletes" "Disdaining the enjoyment of earthly delight" "The envious enemy is put to shame" "As the divinely called Martyr Barbara" "Come, O ye people, let us honour with hymns" |
Multiple | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| DECEMBER 5 Our Righteous and God-bearing Father Sabbas the Sanctified |
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| Stichera at Lord, I have cried and Doxastica at Vespers and Orthros | "Preserving intact the image of God within thee" "We, the multitudes of monastics" "O righteous Father" |
Multiple | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| DECEMBER 6 Our Father Among the Saints Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia |
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| All Idiomela and Doxastica at Vespers and Matins | Multiple | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | |||
| Slow Dismissal Hymn of Saint Nicholas | "The truth of things hath revealed thee to thy flock" | 4th | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | |||
| Supplicatory Canon (Paraklesis) to Saint Nicholas | Multiple | Sign up or Login to Download | Fr. Seraphim (Dedes) | Modern English | Gabriel Cremeens | |||
| DECEMBER 7 Our Father Among the Saints Ambrose, Bishop of Milan |
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| All Doxastica at Vespers and Matins | "Thou didst not receive the Gospel of Christ from man" "By the hand of thy Heavenly God and Father" "The Lord raised up David" |
Multiple | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| DECEMBER 9 Saint Anna's Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos The Consecration of the Church Of the Resurrection |
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| All Doxastica at Vespers and Matins | "As we keep the memorial of the consecration" "The mighty work that was kept hidden" "As we celebrate the consecration" "Today the royal purple hath sprouted" "O Word, Who restest in the bosom" |
Multiple | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| DECEMBER 10 The Holy Martyrs Menas the Most Eloquent, Eugraphus, and Hermogenes |
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| Glory at Lord, I have cried | "Thy tongue hath truly proved to be the pen" | Pl. 2nd | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Glory at the Aposticha of the Praises | "Once again the annual memorial of the luminaries" | Pl. 2nd | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| DECEMBER 11–17 The Sunday of the Holy Forefathers |
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| Glory at Lord, I have cried | "Today let us acclaim, O ye faithful, all the Fathers before the Law" | Pl. 2nd | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Glory at the Aposticha | "Come, ye that love the feasts, with psalms let us acclaim" | 3rd | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Hypakoë | "The fire was transformed into dew" | 2nd | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Glory at the Praises Two settings, one adapted from Philanthides |
"Come, with faith let us all celebrate" | Grave | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| DECEMBER 11 Our Righteous Father Daniel the Stylite |
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| Glory and Theotokion at Lord, I have cried | "Since thou hast traded well with the talent" "O Full of Grace, by thy prayers" |
Pl. 1st | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| DECEMBER 12 Our Righteous Father Spyridon of Trimythus, the Wonderworker |
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| Glory at Lord, I have cried | "O righteous Father, wise and blessed Spyridon" | 1st | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Glory at the Aposticha | "Through thy virtues, O righteous Father" | 2nd | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Dismissal Hymn (metered) | "Of the holy First Council wast thou shown as a champion" | 1st | Anonymous | Elizabethan English | Anonymous | |||
| Idiomelon after the Matins Gospel; Glory at the Praises | "O adornment and pinnacle of the Fathers" "O righteous Father, celebrated Hierarch Spyridon" |
Multiple | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| DECEMBER 12 (alternate) or 13 Our Righteous Father Herman of Alaska, Enlightener of the Aleuts |
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| Idiomelon after the Matins Gospel; Glory and Both now at the Praises | "O Thou who didst show the zeal of the Apostles" "O thou whom the Mother of God raised up from sickness" "O Daughter of David and Mother of Emmanuel" |
Multiple | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| DECEMBER 13 The Holy Five Martyrs of Greater Armenia, Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius, and Orestes |
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| DECEMBER 15 The Holy Hieromartyr Eleutherius, Bishop of Illyricum |
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| Doxastica at Lord, I have cried, at the Aposticha, and at the Praises | "Unto the end, thou wast a most upright priest" "Thou didst redden thine episcopal robe" "As the namesake of Godlike freedom" |
Multiple | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| DECEMBER 16 (alternate) Saint Theophano the Empress |
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| Glory at Lord, I have cried | "Come, O company of the faithful; come, O assembly of the pious" | Pl. 1st | Modern English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||||
| DECEMBER 17 The Holy Prophet Daniel and the Holy Three Children Ananias, Azarias, and Misael |
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| Glory and Both Now at Lord, I have cried | "The Prophet Daniel hath gathered us together" "Come, let us all faithfully celebrate beforehand" |
2nd | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| DECEMBER 17 (alternate) Our Father Among the Saints Dionysius of Zakynthos, Archbishop of Aegina, the Wonderworker |
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| Idiomelon after the Matins Gospel; Glory and Both now at the Praises | "The Church of Christ is glad today" "Today Zakynthos doth celebrate a joyous feast" |
Multiple | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| DECEMBER 18–24 The Sunday Before the Nativity of Christ |
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| Glory at Lord, I have cried | "When Daniel, the man of desires, beheld Thee" | Pl. 2nd | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Glory and Both now at the Aposticha | "Rejoice, O honourable Prophets" "Behold, the time of our salvation is at hand" |
2nd | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Not Specified | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Canon for the Sunday before Christmas, Odes 1, 3, and 9 (text only) | "Out of fear were death’s gates made open to you" | Pl. 2nd | Peter George | Modern English | No Composer | |||
| Hypakoë | "An Angel bedewed the furnace" | Pl. 4th | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Glory at the Praises | "The collection of the Law's teachings" | Pl. 4th | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| DECEMBER 18 The Holy Martyr Sebastian and Those With Him |
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| DECEMBER 20–24 The Forefeast of the Nativity According to the Flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ |
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| Pre-festal Dismissal Hymns to the melody "Joseph was amazed" | "Be thou ready, Bethlehem" "As the fruit of David's seed" |
4th | Sign up or Login to Download | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | |||
| DECEMBER 20 The Forefeast of the Nativity The Holy Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer |
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| Forefestal Idiomela Stichera at Lord, I have cried | "Let us celebrate, O ye peoples, the Forefeast" "Let us celebrate, O ye peoples, the Forefeast" |
1st | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Glory at Lord, I have cried | "O God-bearing Ignatius, having Christ, thy love" | Pl. 4th | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Forefestal Both Now at Lord, I have cried | "Receive, O Bethlehem, her that is the City of God" | Pl. 4th | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| DECEMBER 21 The Holy Martyr Juliana of Nicomedia |
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| Glory at Lord, I have cried | "Keep festival, O Sion; be glad, O Jerusalem" | Pl. 2nd | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| DECEMBER 22 The Holy Great Martyr Anastasia, the Deliverer from Potions |
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| Doxastica and Forefestal Idiomela at Lord, I have cried, at the Aposticha, at the Praises, and at the Aposticha of the Praises | "Thou didst receive the gift of the Resurrection" "Being the namesake of Christ's life-giving Resurrection" "Dance, O Esaias; receive the Word of God" "The prefestal day of Christ God's Incarnation" "Be not downcast, O Joseph" |
Multiple | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Supplicatory Canon (Paraklesis) to Saint Anastasia | Multiple | Peter George | Modern English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||||
| DECEMBER 23 The Holy Ten Martyrs of Crete |
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| Glory and Both Now at Lord, I have cried and at the Aposticha | "Today Crete celebrateth the Nativity of Christ" "O Bethlehem in the land of Judah" "Today the prefestal celebration of the Martyrs is come" "Make ready, O Bethlehem, for Eden is opened" |
Multiple | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Royal Hours of Christmas | ||||||||
| Idiomela and Doxastica at All the Hours | Multiple | Met. Kallistos (Ware) | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||||
| Idiomela and Doxastica at All the Hours | Multiple | Met. Kallistos (Ware) | Modern English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||||
| Idiomela and Doxastica at All the Hours | Multiple | Met. Kallistos (Ware) | Modern English | Samuel Herron | ||||
| Prokeimena at All the Hours | Multiple | Sign up or Login to Download | Nicholas Roumas | Modern English | Gabriel Cremeens | |||
| DECEMBER 25 The Nativity According to the Flesh of our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ |
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| Stichera at Lord, I have cried | "Come, let us greatly rejoice in the Lord" "When the Lord Jesus was born of the holy Virgin" "Thy Kingdom, O Christ our God" "What shall we offer Thee, O Christ" |
2nd | Met. Kallistos (Ware) | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | |||
| Stichera at Lord, I have cried | "Come, let us greatly rejoice in the Lord" "When the Lord Jesus was born of the holy Virgin" "Your Kingdom, O Christ our God" "What shall we offer You, O Christ" |
2nd | Met. Kallistos (Ware) | Modern English | Gabriel Cremeens | |||
| Glory, Both Now at Lord, I have cried | "When Augustus reigned alone upon the earth" | 2nd | Sign up or Login to Download | Nicholas Roumas | Modern English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Glory, Both Now at Lord, I have cried | "When Augustus reigned alone upon the earth" | 2nd | Sign up or Login to Download | Nicholas Roumas | Modern English | Nicholas Roumas | ||
| Troparia at the Prophecies | "Thou wast born secretly in the cave" "Thou hast shone forth from a Virgin, O Christ" |
Pl. 2nd | Met. Kallistos (Ware) | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | |||
| Troparia at the Prophecies | "You were born secretly in the cave" "You have shone forth from a Virgin, O Christ" |
Pl. 2nd | Met. Kallistos (Ware) | Modern English | Gabriel Cremeens | |||
| Alleluia before the Epistle | "Alleluia" | Pl. 4th | Sign up or Login to Download | Nicholas Roumas | Not Specified | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Selection of Psalmic Verses (Ekloge) at the Polyeleos for Christmas Matins | "All the earth. Alleluia." | Plagal 2nd "Nenano" | Sign up or Login to Download | Nicholas Roumas | Modern English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Prokeimenon at Christmas Matins | "I begot you from the womb before the morning star..." (Psalm 109:3-4) | 4th "Legetos" | Sign up or Login to Download | Nicholas Roumas | Modern English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Matins Pentecostarion and Idiomelon | "All things are filled with joy today..." "Glory to God in the highest" |
Multiple | Met. Kallistos (Ware) | Not Specified | Gabriel Cremeens | |||
| 1st Canon of the Nativity of Christ (draft text; subject to change) | "Lo! Christ is born, glorify ye Him" | 1st | Anonymous | Elizabethan English | Anonymous | |||
| Katavasies of the 1st Canon of the Nativity of Christ, fast and slow melodies | "Lo! Christ is born, glorify ye Him" | 1st | Anonymous | Elizabethan English | Anonymous | |||
| Exapostilarion of Christmas (Automelon) | "From the heights our Saviour, Christ" | 3rd | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Stichera at the Praises - Brief Settings | "Make glad, O ye righteous" "It was the good pleasure of the Father" "O Theotokos Virgin who hast borne the Saviour" "O come, let us sing the praises" |
4th "Legetos" | Met. Kallistos (Ware) | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | |||
| Stichera at the Praises - Brief Settings | "Make glad, O you righteous" "It was the good pleasure of the Father" "O Theotokos Virgin who have borne the Savior" "O come, let us sing the praises" |
4th "Legetos" | Met. Kallistos (Ware) | Modern English | Gabriel Cremeens | |||
| Stichera at the Praises - Long Settings | "Be glad, O ye righteous" "The Father was well pleased" "O Virgin Theotokos, who hast given birth" "Come, let us sing hymns unto the Mother of the Saviour" |
4th | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Glory at the Praises | "When it was time for Thy coming upon earth" | Pl. 2nd | Met. Kallistos (Ware) | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | |||
| Glory at the Praises | "When it was time for Your coming upon earth" | Pl. 2nd | Met. Kallistos (Ware) | Modern English | Gabriel Cremeens | |||
| Both Now at the Praises | "Today Christ is born of the Virgin in Bethlehem" | 2nd | Met. Kallistos (Ware) | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | |||
| Both Now at the Praises | "Today Christ is born of the Virgin in Bethlehem" | 2nd | Met. Kallistos (Ware) | Modern English | Gabriel Cremeens | |||
| 1st and 2nd Antiphons | "Through the intercessions" "Save us, O Son of God" |
2nd | Sign up or Login to Download | Nicholas Roumas | Modern English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Alleluia (short and long settings) | "Alleluia" | 1st | Sign up or Login to Download | Nicholas Roumas | Modern English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Megalynarion at the Divine Liturgy | "Magnify, O my soul" | 1st | Elizabethan English | Fr. John (Igor) Zirojevic | ||||
| Communion Hymn of Christmas, long (adapted from Germanos of New Patra) | "The Lord has sent redemption" (Psalm 44:13) | 1st | Sign up or Login to Download | Nicholas Roumas | Modern English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Communion Hymn of Christmas, medium (adapted from Petros Bereketis) | "The Lord has sent redemption" (Psalm 44:13) | 1st "Tetraphone" | Sign up or Login to Download | Nicholas Roumas | Modern English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Communion Hymn of Christmas, brief | "The Lord has sent redemption" (Psalm 44:13) | 1st | Sign up or Login to Download | Nicholas Roumas | Modern English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| DECEMBER 26–31 The Sunday After the Nativity of Christ |
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| Glory at Lord, I have cried | "We celebrate the memorial of the godly King" | Pl. 2nd | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Glory and Both Now at the Aposticha | "Thy Nativity is commemorated by priests" "All the Angels in Heaven dance" |
Pl. 2nd | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| Canon for the Sunday after Christmas, Odes 1, 3, 6 and 9 (text only) | "Pray now, attendant of Christ the Lord" | 1st | Richard Barrett | Modern English | No Composer | |||
| Glory at the Praises | "Blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke" | Pl. 4th | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Not Specified | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| DECEMBER 26 The Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos |
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| Glory at the Praises | "Today the Invisible Nature is united to mortals" | Pl. 2nd | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||
| DECEMBER 27 Saint Stephen the First Martyr and Archdeacon |
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| All Orthros Idiomela | Multiple | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | |||
| DECEMBER 29 The Holy Fourteen Thousand Infants Slain by Herod Our Righteous Father Marcellus, Abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping |
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| Glory at the Aposticha of the Praises | "O righteous Father Marcellus" | Pl. 2nd | Sign up or Login to Download | Holy Transfiguration Monastery | Elizabethan English | Gabriel Cremeens | ||