Let’s Introduce Ourselves!
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Hi Everyone! I’d like to use this space as a place where we can introduce ourselves. Let everyone know your name, your parish, your chanting experience and what you hope to gain from this class.
I’ll start: My name is Peter George and I go to St. Mark of Ephesus in Westwood, MA. I’ve been chanting since I was 16 years old and I have been the Lampadarios in my parish since 2009. In 2014, I received my certificate in Byzantine Chant from Holy Cross Seminary in Brookline, MA.
My passion for the Typikon comes from my old parish priest, who used to make us create the services “from scratch,” that is, using the service books alone. I was blown away by the complexity of the service order and its variation based on the date, but also began to realize that our services are not one unified system, but rather a collection of hymns and rubrics pulled from different places and eras. The Typikon puts all these together into a beautiful tapestry that we can appreciate today. I hope to share and pass this passion along to you, along with the practical ability to build services to help the worship at your parishes.
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Hi everyone. My name is Jonah, and I’m a reader at Sts Peter and Paul Antiochian in Salt Lake City, Utah. I’ve been chanting in that parish since shortly after being baptized into Orthodoxy (with my wife and five kids) in 2012. For some time now, I’ve been wanting to figure out how to put together the services from the books instead of relying on notes that others put together. Looking forward to learning that in this class!
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Hello, my name is Erick Sampson and I am from Kingsport, TN. My wife, our daughter and myself were brought into the Orthodox Church in 2020, and since, God has added 2 healthy twin boys to our family. We currently attend Christ the Savior Greek Orthodox Church in Bluff City, TN.
My wife and I actually met in our highschool choir, and music has always been apart of our lives. My bachelor’s degree is in Worship Arts, and while music was a great part of that experience for me, the focus on the worship of God in and through the whole of the created world was always and repeatedly emphasized. Now, by God’s grace, that I am an Orthodox Christian, many of the principles that were instilled in me at that time have taken on new and truer forms, and it seems that the longer I live, I see not only a great significance in the offering up of all of the external, material world to God, but also *time* itself.
If asked, at times, I would say that we live in strange times, trying times, and sometimes even dark times, but at other times, if asked, I would say that we live in great times – sometimes, even Holy Time. I know that it is God that holds this world together. I know that the Divine Services and the liturgical cycles of the Orthodox Christian Church are holy. I know that the Typikon is holy. I want to internalize it, live out of it, and understand it in such a way as to pass it on as an endless, invisible and untouchable, eternal treasure to my children, and lead a life as a family that is holy and pleasing to God.
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Hi! I’m Paul Fallon, from Fredericksburg, VA. I have a wife, and a boy (10) and a girl (5). I was received into the Church (Greek Orthodox Archdiocese) in 1997, and have been in the choir at the church since about 2010. This past September, I was tonsured Reader. I’m the de facto English language chanter in the parish, relying heavily on Digital Chant Stand. I took Peter George’s Typikon 100 in late fall 2024 and wish to continue learning the intricacies of compiling services.
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Hello, I am Silouan Younger, from Meridian, ID. I was baptized into the Orthodox Church in July of 2023, and I began to chant and sing in the choir at my parish of Holy Transfiguration Antiochian Orthodox Church shortly thereafter! My interest in the Typikon stems both from my growing love for the services of the church and a desire to assist my parish priest with services when many of the usual chanters/readers cannot make it!
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