Texts and Music for the Nativity Season
Quick links to material for for prayer at home and in church during the Nativity Season:
For liturgical use, you should always check with the Archdiocese Department of Liturgics and Translations. The St. Raphael Clergy Brotherhood of the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America and the Diocese of Los Angeles Liturgics page are also helpful resources.
The Department of Sacred Music provides musical settings in PDF format:
For services on Thanksgiving Day, His Grace Bishop BASIL has provided the following texts. The texts follow a Slavic liturgical tradition, but they can be easily adjusted for Antiochian liturgical usage.
Appropriate services during the Nativity Fast are:
Many parishes and individuals celebrate Thanksgiving with the Akathist of Thanksgiving. The Antiochian Women of the East have also provided a printable version of the Akathist organized for devotional reading throughout the Nativity Fast.
The Department of Sacred Music also has a collection of Carols of the Nativity by Richard Toensing, based on Orthodox hymnography (PDF format, not for liturgical use)
The Order of Theophany House Blessing (PDF)
