Liturgical Texts
Voice of the Fathers
Songs of the Fathers
Obiter Scripta
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The gates of death, Lord, opened to you in fear;
Hades’ gate-keepers
shuddered when they saw you;
for you smashed the gates of brass,
crushed to powder the iron bars,
led us out of darkness and the shadow of death
and tore our bonds asunder.
On these pages you will find, in the main, translations of our Orthodox liturgical and patristic texts. Most of the latter are of texts which have not been previously translated into English, or which are only available in rare or outdated versions.
Some visitors to these pages have pointed out that when printed out in black and white only, the distinction between text and rubrics is lost. This can be overcome if the pages are saved into a word processor and then edited, rather than being printed directly from the screen. The original text of nearly all these pages was prepared in Microsoft Word.
Links:
Parish of St Anthony and St John the Baptist, Islington
http://www.orthodox-islington.org.uk
As there is now a great deal on these pages, I have decided to draw attention to recently added material by listing it here and adding the necessary hyperlinks, and reminders, with hyperlinks, to appropriate pages from earlier years.
My more recent translations of our liturgical texts contain notes, including biblical and patristic cross references, as well as discussions of rare or interesting words and expressions. For this reason I shall put them up in both HTML and PDF formats. In this way they can easily be downloaded for liturgical use without footnotes.
On the web site of the parish of St Anthony and St John the Baptist in Islington you will find a simple Commentary on the Divine Liturgy.
REMINDER
Apolytikia and Kontakia for October
Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke
Unless stated otherwise, all texts and translations on these pages are © by Archimandrite Ephrem. The search facility below, from Google, is highly recommended and will rapidly find almost any word on the following pages.