The Slavonic liturgy receives at the end of the first
millennium of the Christian Era, via Byzantium, a
developed form of the celebration of the "Great and
Holy Saturday", such as it took place in the Holy
Sepulcher, in Jerusalem in the first centuries of the
Christianity.
At matins, verses of praise, interspersed between
the verses of Psalm 118 “Blessed are the
blameless”, content the amazement of the angels at
the sight of the Lord laid in the tomb and glorify His
saving resurrect...(+)
The Slavonic liturgy receives at the end of the first
millennium of the Christian Era, via Byzantium, a
developed form of the celebration of the "Great and
Holy Saturday", such as it took place in the Holy
Sepulcher, in Jerusalem in the first centuries of the
Christianity.
At matins, verses of praise, interspersed between
the verses of Psalm 118 “Blessed are the
blameless”, content the amazement of the angels at
the sight of the Lord laid in the tomb and glorify His
saving resurrection of the human race.
I composed for the attention of the men's choir of
the Colline Saint-Serge in Paris, which I directed from
2008 to 2016, the first three stanzas of praise of each
of the three "stanzas" punctuating this vast liturgical
poem .
