So this year will be two years! Isn't it so amazing! I was received into this Holy Church on April 5, 1987, and I still sometimes feel that newness of life even to this day! Glory to God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who grants us Eternal Life and blesses us with His peace!

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@@constantinexipalaeologus9393by my

Hi, Debbie, from St. Barnabas Orthodox Church in Costa Mesa, California USA

Thank you brother

@@paulwilliams9207 Paul: how are you doing during this Lent when we can only watch streaming liturgies?

Sorry Debbie, sister

☦ Greetings Deborah on Sunday eve week of Palm's 2021. my heart lept for joy seeing St Andrew the First Called , Riverside as it was blessed VR Father Josiah, who mailed to me in Seattle, my first Catechumen book back in 1997ish. Your parish and Fr Josiah are remembered during Proskomidia here at St Innocent ROCOR in Silverdale WA. 😙x3💚in ICXC _ Stephanie Mary[of Egypt]

Me too. When listening, it makes me feel how absolutely hopeless and in despair we would be without Him. We would simply die and vanish into oblivion... And then to think, that with Him comes all hope in the world. And that all this hope in the world came into this world in the form of a small baby, lying in a manger. Not through a powerful army of angels, but through a small baby... I still cannot fathom it, but I know it is right. It can't be otherwise...

What about Islam? They also believe in Jesus and Mary... Quoran says God is 1. And can do everything. He send Jesus to the people. And Jesus did all the mircales by God's will. Perhaps a great prophet of God?

@@AG-wb3db Allah said he is the father of no one , yet Jesus calls God Father? Jesus ask to be worshipped as His Father is worshipped , clearly He is not a mere prophet. What prophet would dare say your sins are forgiven ? What prophet would dare identify Himself with the attribute of God(Mark 14:62)? Muslim did not believe in Jesus , for you believe in a different Jesus. Your Jesus/Isa is incompetent, think about it , he got his book corrupted , his follower misguided, and many more things. To think about it your God Allah is really incompetent huh, his 2 previous ummah gor corrupted and the final and 3rd ummah is killing each others.

@@AG-wb3db Jesus is not a mere prophet. His followers testofied that He is Son of God, who was crucified and rose from the dead. All three of those things Islam rejects. Saying Jesus is a "great prophet", or that He's "Word of Allah and a spirit from Him" saying that He and His mother are sinless, or saying that He was someone who did miracles by permission of God (not "will", implying that He has an inherent ability to do them), isn't enough. Islam rejects what Jesus said of Himself.

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⁠@@AG-wb3dbno one cares about your Allah,that’s a demon

All prayerful wishes from Syrian Orthodox 🙏🙏🙏

My Heavenly Patron Lazarus ❣️

I am Syrian Greek Orthodox and I did not know that! Thank you for telling us

I am antochian orthodox which means I am from Syria or Lebanon and I am Orthodox and live in North America

@@lazarustheyounger5163 the bishop of the Greek Orthodox is the one who wrote it, besides you are called a Syriac Orthodox , not Syrian in English, I totally support that it should be Syrian instead but go to a dictionary you will find that it is Syriac

@@danielvanorden230 if I'm not mistaken it's literally just the same song of praise just in Arabic

@@danielvanorden230 beyt aanya just means bethany. It's the translation of the hebrew one to arabic.

That’s rally kind. Love your to. I do have to say that after talking with a moslim I think there are a lot of fundamental differences

Actually we don't and we don't want to bear your self proclaimed fake pedophile warlord prophet who raped looted plundered the Jewish tribes of mecca and eliminated the Christians and jews from the Arabian peninsula throughout his life and his fake pagan deity allah, our god is Jehovah not your allah and yeshu is the manifestation of Jehovah in human form,

Christ is God

@@IlluminatiCheckerboardflooring Only in your belief. Even some Christians do not see Jesus as a god, some Christians see him only as a messenger prophet... and in our faith (islam) he is just a prophet and we love him very much.

@@fatihsen7983 there is only one correct tradition, that of the Church established by Jesus Christ, “And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed” John 17:5

Truly, He Is Risen

We pray for unity through the return of all who left Christ's Body, the Orthodox Church, by triple immersion baptism into the Orthodox Church.

Rejoice, rejoice, O Bethany! On this day God came to thee, God came to thee; and in Him the dead are made alive, as is right for He is the Life! He is the Life! He is the Life! And in Him the dead are made alive, as is right for He is the Life! When Martha went to receive Him, grieving loudly with bitter tears, bitter tears, she poured out the sorrow of her heart to Him, with great sadness, wailing her lament. Wailing her lament, wailing her lament. She poured out the sorrow of her heart to Him, with great sadness, wailing her lament. She at once cried out unto Him, “My most compassionate Lord! My Lord! At the great loss of my brother Lazarus my heart is broken, help me! Help me! Help me! At the great loss of my brother Lazarus my heart is broken, help me! Jesus said to her, “Cease thy weeping, cease thy grieving and sad lament, sad lament; for thy brother, My most beloved friend Lazarus, very soon will live again! He will live again! He will live again! For thy brother, My most beloved friend Lazarus, very soon will live again!” Then He, the faithful Redeemer, made His way unto the tomb, unto the tomb, where He cried unto him who was buried four days, calling him forth, saying, “Lazarus, arise! Lazarus, arise! Lazarus, arise!” Where He cried unto him who was buried four days, calling him forth, saying, “Lazarus, arise! Come with haste, ye two sisters, and behold a wondrous thing, wondrous thing, for thy brother from the tomb has returned to life. To the beloved Redeemer now give thanks! Now give thanks! Now give thanks! For thy brother from the tomb has returned to life. To the beloved Redeemer now give thanks! To Thee, O Lord of creation, we kneel down in reverence profound, reverence profound; for all we who are dead in sin; in Thee, O Jesus, are made alive! We are made alive! We are made alive! For all we who are dead in sin; in Thee, O Jesus, are made alive! Rejoice, rejoice, O Bethany! On this day God came to thee, God came to thee; and in Him the dead are made alive, as is right for He is the Life! He is the Life! He is the Life! And in Him the dead are made alive, as is right for He is the Life! God bless!

@@AnnaJordahl Oh thank you so much! I had most of them, so thank you for filling in the words I was missing. Have a Blessed Holy Week and a Great Pascha!

@@AnnaJordahl Oh, and my Baptismal and Recording Artist's name is also Anna, to the glory of God, the Holy Trinity!

Today he is Hung Upon the Tree is a good one

- "O Give Thanks Unto The Lord" - "Open to me the gates of repentance" - "Blessed art thou O Lord"

Pepe/Wojak has become Orthodox

@@seronymus indeen you are right, good sir. To be more precise, for some years my guide in christianity and spiritual life were Gospels and what I consider holy books of a christian denomination that doesn't fully exist yet... those are books written by Daniil Andreev. They were written 70 years ago, published in Russia 30 years ago and are now being translated into english: rozamira.org/en/andreev/roseofworld/ My youtube channel has most of Andreev's books in form of audiobooks (sadly, only in russian for now) and also one audiobook chapter is made into a film: kzfaq.info/sun/PL5kcGCiqqC0DGZeVAfyi6tCcmz_d5Y1w6&fbclid=IwAR2r3HnFOVdjmG6Fz3DT-J1V3Jt7_DJ94dv7RpcaDE0pcNR1ThnCxPA8oK4 P.S. pls help me with making this stuff better known, I'm dying (both ironically and literally)

I was searching for it myself earlier and couldnt find it in Greek. However, the composer of this hymn in 1800s is a Syrian Metropolitan, and it was composed in Arabic. The first translation was to English in 1986 by another Antiochian bishop. So I am not sure about the Greek translation

I don’t know if it exists in Greek. The original is in Arabic.

@@60Singing Oh wow! Thanks for that, even after all this time!

Yes. The CD is called “Thy Passion,” sung by the Boston Byzantine Choir. I believe you can find it on google

You can find the sheet music here: ww1.antiochian.org/sites/default/files/rejoice_o_bethany.pdf

Thank you! One question: in the video here, it sounds like there are three voices/parts, but I only see two parts in the sheet music. Am I incorrect or missing something? Thanks again!

@@Hannah-tv5vr this group adds an additional ison under the high parts of the melody only, to fill it out more. Not in the music (and neither is the split of verses between men and women) but is a reasonable arrangement. I love this hymn!

@@margarethaig272 Thank you for the explanation!

Orthodox hymns & chants are for worship & prayer by Orthodox. Not by others & not for any other purpose.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j619o5N7tJPJj5s.html

I've thought about that, and I'm pretty sure that it's the city of Bethany. I could be wrong, though.

Bethany is the name of the village where Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead

Bethany as in the town where Christ raised Lazarus from the dead (John 11).

Verses are below the music

ww1.antiochian.org/sites/default/files/rejoice_o_bethany.pdf

Don't hate on this version though

fairuz's version is out of this world

@Totus Tuus kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZrpxfbKiv5rdYYE.html

The content is the same. It doesn't matter what language it's in, it's the meaning that makes it beautiful.

Whatever version is edifying to the listener is best