Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

so has axios ever done anything like this before where you've recorded a full album like this or even have you gone on tour before um or is this kind of first of the kind

yeah so this ukrainian war requiem is our third full album and you can actually listen to all of our albums on spotify apple music anywhere that you can stream music you can listen So the first one we recorded was the Resurrectional Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.

And we recorded that in 2015.

And then we went on two tours with that, one across the prairies, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg.

So Boris assembled a group of guys that had some similar interests in singing Ukrainian liturgical music, and they started singing for services in churches.

and did that for years and years until about 2015 when they got together and said, you know, I wonder what would happen if we put our heads together and tried to record an album.

And that was when they first recorded or Axios first recorded the Resurrectional Liturgy, the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.

It's Easter music.

Basil.

Similar, but with some distinct differences with the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.

a near contemporary, and so a lot of what we know about the early Church's celebration of the Mass in the East we know from the Divine Liturgy of St.

Basil.

And I call your attention to figure one.

There's the epiklesis of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.

Make this change by the Holy Spirit and so forth.

In the Western Mass, similarly, while there is no invocation of the Holy Spirit per se, there is the qualm of Latzionum, and that's figure two, which invokes God with these words, quote, which oblation do thou, O God, don't save in all things to make less approved, gratified, reasonable, and acceptable that it may become for us the body and blood of your most beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.

And he says, we beseech and pray and entreat you, send down your Holy Spirit upon us and upon the gifts here presented and make this bread the precious body of your Christ and that which is in the cup, the precious blood of your Christ.

The liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, he says, I am blessed to hear these words every Sunday.

What an incredible blessing.

What an incredible one.