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An Easter song performed by the musical orchestra ''Stupovi'' and various Serbian singers and celebrities. The video is dedicated to the resurrection of Christ, made as part of a campagin to raise funds for reconstruction of a medieval Serbian Orthodox monastery named ''Pillars of Saint George.''

The lyrics are taken from a poem by St. Nikolai Velimirovich, one of the great Serbian saints of the modern era.

In his Epistle to the Galatians (3:28), St. Paul tells us that in the Church "there is neither Jew nor Greek...,"  nor, we might add, Slav or Arab or American, "for are all one in Christ Jesus." As true as this saying is, in our parishes here in America, every leader of church singing or choir director has to make concrete choices about the style of liturgical singing that is used in

Yesterday, the Orthodox Church celebrated Palm Sunday. During the Divine Liturgy at St. Demetrios Church, Fr. Chris Metropulos delivered a special homily for Palm Sunday entitled "What Kind of King Do We Woship?" Click here to watch the Divine Liturgy, and fast-forward to 1:38:05 to watch the sermon. This file require RealPlayer to view. WATCH NOW >>

Our new television series on Orthodox faith and life in the modern world is here! The first episode features an interview with His Grace Bishop Savas of Troas on religious freedom and the Ecumenical Patriarchate. This Webcast is currently available in RealPlayer format. Click here to download Realplayer for free if you don't already have it. WATCH NOW >>

This program showcases an extraordinary and unique work of Orthodox-inspired non-liturgical art--Fr. Ivan Moody’s Passion and Resurrection. Written in the genre of the choral“ Passion,” made famous by such composers as Heinrich Schütz, J. S. Bach, and Krzysztof Penderecki, and re-casts it within the Orthodox liturgical aesthetic.

This program showcases a CD that came out just before Pascha in 2007 -- Russian composer Alexandre Gretchaninoff's Passion Week, as recorded on the Chandos label by the Kansas City Chorale and the Phoenix Bach Choir, under the direction of Charles Bruffy. This superb recording was nominated for five Grammy awards, including Best Classical Album and Best Choral Performance, and it ended up