This is a project I have been meaning to complete for this website. Luckily for me, Jeff at the Metropolitan Cantor Institute has put together a good set of pages with the structure of the Byzantine liturgy of the hours, along with links to the books that the MCI has published. Please go take a look here.
O Christ our God, you are above all glory, for you have established our Holy Fathers as radiant stars on earth, and through them you have guided us all to the true faith.—Troparion of the Council Fathers.
This past Sunday at St. George Romanian Catholic Church, we recognized the decades of service offered by George Todos, who began cantoring as a boy and has now, in his eighties, retired from full-time cantoring duties. Pastor Fr. Fred Peterson presented George with an engraved plaque and other tokens of the parish’s gratitude. After Liturgy, we celebrated with a meal in the church basement.
This was an especially appropriate Sunday for such an event,