Now Is the Holy Time of Lent
See also
Song
The Lament of the Virgin (Baidiri, Asia Minor)
Holy Week Lament
...
The Virgin heard the awful news, she swooned and fell,
they fetched some water in a crock; three tumblers of flower-wat...
Song
The Lament of the Virgin (Marmaras, Asia Minor)
Holy Week Lament
...
A voice from heaven could be heard, a good archangel speaking.
My lady, that’s enough of prayers, enough of doing penan...
Song
The Lament of the Virgin (Reis-Dere)
Holy Week Lament
...
– O holy John, forerunner and baptizer of my son,
where is my much beloved son, your own beloved teacher?
– My lips wo...
Song
Again They Entered in the Dance
Again they entered in the dance, four eyes as dark as olives,
four eyes that weave like shuttle through the hearts they brea...
Song
Arabas (A Horse-Cart Is Passing By)
A horse-cart's passing by, raising clouds of dust,
pull up your little dress 'cause it will gather dust.
A horse-cart's pas...
Song
Ballos from Alatsata
Start, sweet tongue of mine, and remember, my lips,
And you poor heart, tell what you know.
Of songs and commendations I ...
Song
For a Whole Seven Weeks...
For a whole seven weeks, my love, I did not speak to you;
because it was the time of Lent, I feared I’d make you sin.
I can...
Song
Let’s Say One
One, let’s say one
one is the nightingale, and sweetly does she sing.
Let’s say two,
two partridges on the threshing floor...
Song
The Kontakion, The Oikos and The Synaxarion of Holy Wednesday
THE KONTAKION (To be read, not chanted)
4th Mode
I have transgressed, O Master, more than the harlot, but I have not offere...
Song
The Lament of the Virgin (Cyprus)
Holy Week Lament
O gentlefolk, pay heed to me, and hear the Mother’s dirge,
hear how she mourns her only child upon the yonder Cross.
Take n...
Song
Yioryitsa
I intended to love you, my Yioryítsa,
and nobody to know of it.
Now our own people learn of it, my Yioryítsa,
strangers to...