Glory to Jesus Christ! Here is the next installment of the hymnal project: https://mci.archpitt.org/blog/songs-for-palm-sunday/ In Christ, Deacon Jeffrey Mierzejewski

Glory to Jesus Christ! In a recent blog post, I reported: Vespers – the current MCI Vespers books were prepared in 2005-2006, and don’t always match the texts, music and rubrics in our 2007 Divine Lit

Next up in the Hymnal Project: https://mci.archpitt.org/blog/songs-for-the-great-fast/ If you know of any additional Lenten hymns you would like to have considered for the hymal - or see any mistakes

Glory to Jesus Christ! A reminder: Three MCI Online classes are free and can be taken at any time: Introduction to Liturgy - the basics of our liturgical services Introduction to Church Singing - the

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

Christ is born! Dear cantors, I received some questions about which psalm to use with the Communion Hymn for Theophany (since the latter is NOT a psalm, but from St. Paul's letter to Titus). A few of

Christ is born! Dear cantors and reverent fathers, The Metropolitan Cantor Institute now has a moleben to Saint Basil the Great, whose feast we celebrated on January 1: Moleben to Saint Basil the Grea

Christ is born! Here are the music links for January 2019 (I apologize for the delay in getting them out!) The 2019 liturgical calendar is now up on the MCI website; links will become live as music is

Christ is born! Dear Cantors, Please consider ordering a copy of the Typikon for 2019; it can be invaluable in understanding and following our services, as well as in identifying the hymns to be sung

On 12/26/2018 8:18 AM, Steve Furgas wrote: Christ is Born! Hi Jeff, The Tone for Sunday, December 30th is Tone 7. I wanted to double check on something, the Prokeimenon for this Sunday in the material

Glory to Jesus Christ! Here is the music for December 23-31. Unless otherwise noted, all materials is in camera ready format, for printing on legal size (8.5 by 14 inch) paper. The "normal" versions o

Glory to Jesus Christ! Dear Cantors, Work on the hymnal project is continuing; here are two songs for Theophany: Songs for Theophany which finishes out work for the Christmas season. In order to let y

Glory to Jesus Christ! Now that we've completed work on the Nativity Fast and Saint Nicholas hymns for the Hymnal Project, we're turning to hymns for the Nativity. Work on the following is complete: A

Glory to Jesus Christ! Now that we've completed work on the Nativity Fast and Saint Nicholas hymns for the Hymnal Project, we're turning to hymns for the Nativity. If you'd like to contribute to the r

Thanks to cantor Janice Manning and Father Robert Pipta, rector of our seminary, I have corrected some minor errors in both the Royal Hours and Vespers with Divine Liturgy books for Christmas. If you

Glory to Jesus Christ! Back in 2007, the MCI published books for the service of Vespers with Divine Liturgy for the eves of Christmas and Theophany. This was not the first time such books had been cre

Glory to Jesus Christ! Some years ago, the Metropolitan Cantor Institute published books for the vigils of Christmas and Theophany labelled Office of Readings, consisting of selected psalms from the R

Glory to Jesus Christ! Over the past two weeks, work has started on a new hymnal for our church. You can follow this work and contribute your thoughts to it at the MCI blog. The first completed work i

Glory to Jesus Christ! Here is what is coming in the way of music for the feasts of the Nativity of the Lord, and his Theophany Royal Hours of Christmas Last year, the Inter-Eparchial Liturgical Commi

Glory to Jesus Christ! Here is the music for December 1-23. Music for December 24-31 will go out separately. (You'll see why later tonight.) All music is in camera ready format, for printing on legal