Glory to Jesus Christ! Dear Cantors, As I hope you know, the entire MCI cantor education program is now available online, and the introductory courses (along with some special classes, like the recent

Glory to Jesus Christ! Dear cantors, The MCI SoundCloud now includes an entire workshop on Byzantine Liturgical Theology by Fr Robert Taft, presented to a group of Byzantine Catholic priests in the la

Glory to Jesus Christ! Dear Cantors, My profuse apologies - last year, when updating the vigil liturgy for Christmas, I inadvertently overwrote the one for St. Nicholas on the website. It has now been

Glory to Jesus Christ! Dear cantors, Here is the music for December 2019. For more about this month in the Byzantine liturgical calendar, see December ( https://mci.archpitt.org/liturgy/December.html

Glory to Jesus Christ! Dear Cantors, For our round of daily liturgical prayer, there are a lot of possible needs: books for clergy and people, church and home, with or without music. Until now, it’s t

Glory to Jesus Christ! Dear Cantors, With the completion of the Services for the Departed class (now available for guest access!), the entire 2-year MCI cantor education is now available! Basic course

Glory to Jesus Christ! A reminder: the following MCI Online classes will be offering starting next week: Introduction to the Eight Tones (the 8 tones for the Divine Liturgy) Mastering the Eight Tones

Dear cantors, Just in time for his feast day on October 31, here is a moleben (prayer service) in honor of the martyred bishop of Mukachevo, who died in 1947. Moleben to the holy bishop-martyr Theodor

Glory to Jesus Christ! For the proposed hymnal, I have incorporated a number of suggestions: Added traditional "English" Christmas hymns, with music Modified the note on "Having suffered" / "Preterpiv

Glory to Jesus Christ! Dear Cantors, If you look at the liturgical calendar on the MCI website, you will sometimes seen two sets of music for Vespers, with one of them labelled “samohlasen.” What does

Glory to Jesus Christ! Dear Cantors, Here is the music for November 2019, in camera ready format, for printing double-sided on 11 by 14 inch paper. The "normal" versions of these materials can always

Glory to Jesus Christ! Dear Cantors, Here is the music for October 2019, in camera ready format, for printing double-sided on 11 by 14 inch paper. The "normal" versions of these materials can always b

Dear Cantors, After a year of work on the Hymnal Project, and a great deal of input from cantors (thank you all!), the first formatted draft of the new hymnal is available: Hymnal – draft – 2019-09 I

Glory to Jesus Christ! Dear Cantors, Here is the music for September 2019, in camera ready format, for printing double-sided on 11 by 14 inch paper. The "normal" versions of these materials can always

Glory forever! Steve, Classes consist of reading, online assignments (quizzes, "Put the parts of the panachida in the correct order"), listening assignments, and music to be recorded. There is also so

Dear Cantors, The ability to competently lead the singing at our funeral services is an essential skill for our cantors. Like baptisms and weddings, funerals bring our communities together and also in

Dear Cantors, Initial work on the new hymn all is just about complete, and since much of the content will consist of hymns to the Mother of God, I have decided to release these in draft form in honor

Glory to Jesus Christ! Dear Cantors, The first round of work on the proposed hymnal is ALMOST complete. I have created blog entries for all the Marian hymns (so that it's easier to post comments) and

Glory to Jesus Christ! Dear Cantors, Here is the music for August 2019, in camera ready format, for printing double-sided on 11 by 14 inch paper. The "normal" versions of these materials can always be

Glory to Jesus Christ! Dear Cantors, The MCI Online advanced class, Services for the Departed, will be offered for the first time this year, beginning on September 2. It will cover: Prayer for the dea