Good Women Bearing Palms
See also
Song
It is the feast of Lazarus
Lazarus Saturday Carol
It is the feast of Lazarus, the feast of Palms is nigh.
– Where were you, Lazarus, where did you hide yourself?
– Why, I wa...
Song
A Teacher Seated Himself Down
Lazarus Saturday Carol
A teacher seated himself down upon a block of marble
and started writing with his pen, and knocked his ink-well over,
the i...
Song
Childrens Holy Week Song
Holy Monday – the butcher’s knife
Holy Tuesday – Christ in hiding
Holy Wednesday – Christ arrested
Maundy Thursday – Chris...
Song
Im Wearing a White Rose
A Lazarus Song
I’m wearing a white rose I am, I dearly wish to dye it
and if I’m lucky with the dyes, how many hearts I’ll kindle.
I’ll ki...
Song
Sweet Basil of the Holy Cross
Sweet basil of the Holy Cross
and royal flower of Christ,
I strolled around your garden
and round your flower-beds.
I pic...
Musical Selections
The Doxastikon of the Aposticha, by the nun Kassiani
The masterpiece of the Byzantine music tradition, the Troparion of Kassiani by Yiorgos Remoundos and his choir, ‘The Kalophon...
Song
Alleluiarion, and the Troparion ‘Behold the Bridegroom comes...'
4th Plagal Tone. 8th Mode.
Verse: Learn righteousness, you, who dwell upon the earth.
Choir. Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.
...
Song
Evyenoula
Young Evyenoula, comely lass, the lass who married early
and boastfully was wont to say that Charon would not get her
becau...
Song
Glory of the Ainoi: The woman who was a sinner...
2nd Mode.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
The woman who was a sinner hastened to the market, tha...
Song
So Many Lies
We’ve told so many lies, a truth now let us tell,
we loaded forty pumpkins on a mouse’s tail.
The pumpkins full of water,
...
Song
The Lament of the Virgin (Phourni)
Holy Week Lament
...
– Be off with you, you gypsy scum, and may your hearth grow cold,
and may you lack a second shirt to clothe your wretch...
