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‘Being’, The Art and Life of Father Sophrony

By Christabel Helena Anderson on September 3, 2020
‘Being’, The Art and Life of Father Sophrony

Archimandrite Sophrony, painting Christ at the Last Supper, early 1980s, the Monastery of St John the Baptist, Refectory.[1]  Image: ©The Stavropegic Monastery of Saint John the Baptist, Essex.   Editorial note: This is the second part of a series on the artistic path and iconographic legacy of Saint Sophrony (Sakharov) as seen through a collection […]

Posted in Artist Features, Iconography, Liturgy, Minor Arts, Reviews, Theory, Writers | Tagged abyss, art, biography, book review, Elder Sophrony, England, English Iconography, essex, Father Sophrony, icon painting, iconographer, iconography, liturgical art, Monastery of St. John the Baptist, Paris, Russia, Russian Orthodox, Saint Silouan, St. Silouan the Athonite, St. Sophrony, St. Sophrony the Athonite, Theology, Tradition March 31, 2021

Benedict Sheehan: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (2018)

By Benedict Sheehan on December 6, 2018
Benedict Sheehan: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (2018)

Liturgical Music in America Liturgical music is closely bound up with the people that sing it. Language, history, culture, experience, education, social class, all of these things shape the sound-world of worship. The people that founded Orthodox parishes in America more than a century ago—for the most part, immigrants from Russia, Greece, Eastern Europe, and […]

Posted in Artist Features, Liturgy, Music, News | Tagged American, Benedict Sheehan, composition, Divine Liturgy, English, Music, PaTRAM, russian December 7, 2018

The Typika Psalms and Beatitudes: A Liturgical Opportunity

By Richard Barrett on September 11, 2017
The Typika Psalms and Beatitudes: A Liturgical Opportunity

Editor’s note: This article addresses the Typika Psalms and Beatitudes in the Divine Liturgy, and describes the differences in usage among contemporary North American Orthodox jurisdictions. In particular, the author considers opportunities in which choirs in the Greek and Antiochian Archdioceses might expand their use of these liturgical texts. It is frequently observed that the Psalter is the chief source […]

Posted in Liturgy, Music | Tagged antiochian, beatitudes, Divine Liturgy, greek, hymnography, Orthodox, slavic, typika psalms September 12, 2017

Voice and machine: Technology and Orthodox liturgical music

By Richard Barrett on February 28, 2017
Voice and machine: Technology and Orthodox liturgical music

Recently, iconographer Aidan Hart published the thought-provoking essay “Hand and machine: Making liturgical furnishings”. Mr. Hart’s piece is part of an ongoing exploration by liturgical artists of the question of how technology has changed, and is continuing to change, our relationship to crafts that have up until recently been done by hand. Liturgical designer Andrew Gould has […]

Posted in Liturgy, Music | Tagged AGES, chanting, ipad, liturgy, Music, tablet, technology February 28, 2017

The Sacred Arts Initiative “Rethinking Sacred Arts”

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on November 30, 2016
The Sacred Arts Initiative "Rethinking Sacred Arts"

The Sacred Arts Initiative  “Rethinking Sacred Arts” A Review Although the task of OAJ has mainly been to work towards the promotion of the revival of traditional Orthodox liturgical arts, along the way we have not hesitated to engage the sphere of secular art. This has not only been relegated to a critique of its […]

Posted in Iconography, Liturgy, Reviews, Theory | Tagged creativity, gallery art, liturgy, non-liturgical art, para-liturgical, sacred art, Secular Art, traditional liturgical arts November 30, 2016

A New Hieratikon – The Typographical Design of a Liturgical Book

By Hieromonk Herman (Majkrzak) on December 29, 2014
A New Hieratikon - The Typographical Design of a Liturgical Book

Editor’s note: This article is offered to us by Hierodeacon Herman regarding his design for a new liturgical book. This book represents one of the first significant applications of the Orthodox Illustration Project, sponsored by this journal. All the graphic ornaments used in the Hieratikon come from the Illustration Project, being drawn or edited by Scott Patrick O’Rourke, […]

Posted in Liturgy, Minor Arts, Theory | Tagged hieratikon, hierodeacon herman, liturgical, monastery, oca, Orthodox, orthodox graphics, orthodox illustration project, press, russian, saint tikhon, service book, typography January 7, 2015

Heaven Is Round. Earth Is Square.

By Jonathan Pageau on November 13, 2014
Heaven Is Round.  Earth Is Square.

This is post 4 of 4 in the series “Ancient Cosmology Today” (This is the fourth part of a series.  Part 1: Most of The Time The Earth Is Flat.  Part 2: Where is Heaven?  Part 3: Heaven and Earth in The Icon) In my previous posts in this series I have discussed what Heaven […]

Posted in Architecture, Iconography, Liturgy, Theory, Vestments | Tagged Andrew Gould, Architecture, bible, building, cosmology, cosmos, dome, earth, flat earth, heaven, Icon, Jonathan Pageau, pantocrator, pendentive, sphere, square, square earth, Symbolism April 7, 2017

Technical Hierarchy

By Jonathan Pageau on October 1, 2013
Technical Hierarchy

This is post 3 of 3 in the series “Hand and Machine” In light of the discussion that has been happening on the OAJ concerning the question of technical means and the production of liturgical arts (starting with fr. Silouan Justiniano’s article, my short post and Andrew Gould’s response), I thought I would attempt something […]

Posted in Architecture, Church Furniture, Iconography, Liturgical Objects, Liturgy, Minor Arts, Theory | Tagged aeropagite, altar, bronze, daniel, exonarthex, gold, hierarchy, Icons, iron, liturgical art, machine, mechanical production, narthex, nave, nebuchanezzar, Orthodoxy, production, silver, temple April 1, 2017

The current state of things with the Saint John of Damascus Society’s Psalm 103 project

By Richard Barrett on September 30, 2013
The current state of things with the Saint John of Damascus Society's Psalm 103 project

Back in April, I posted about the Saint John of Damascus Society‘s Kickstarter campaign for the first phase of the Psalm 103 project. I’m happy to say that it was more than successful, and we’re just about to deliver on one of the first parts this phase. Before I get to that, let me tell […]

Posted in Liturgy, Music, News | Tagged chant, indiana, Music, Orthodox, richard barrett, st-john of damascus society July 8, 2014

Degraded Iconicity IV: Symbolic and Priestly Craftsmanship

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on April 24, 2013
Degraded Iconicity IV: Symbolic and Priestly Craftsmanship

This is post 4 of 6 in the series “Degraded Iconicity” Icon as Symbolic Craftsmanship Although the technique of egg-tempera is ancient and predates the Christian period, it providentially has been adopted and retained by the tradition of icon painting. Encaustic was used but soon abandoned,which further confirms that not all methods have been deemed […]

Posted in Iconography, Liturgical Objects, Liturgy, Theory | Tagged craftsmanship, iconography, liturgy, Symbolism April 1, 2017
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