Liturgical
Sheet Music
Sheet Music for Sunday Liturgy
Sunday Troparia and Kontakia
(Oktoechos—variable tunes for the successive Sundays)
Menaion Sheet Music (special music for the non-moveable feasts—same day each year, sun calendar)
Triodion Sheet Music (special music for moveable feasts for Lent—pre-Pascha/Easter, lunar calendar)
Pentecostarion Sheet Music (special music for moveable feasts after Pascha/Easter, lunar calendar)
Occasional Pieces (funerals, weddings, para-liturgical)
On
Sunday mornings you will find me catching a bus on Kuang
Fu Road and heading for Taipei City. So far the only Orthodox Church (正教教會) in Taiwan is
located at 台北縣新店市溪園路389之12號4樓 B8, 4th Fl. No. 389-12 Shi-Yuen Road
Xin-Dian City, Taipei County. From 大坪林 MRT station, exit 1, you can take a mini bus going to
湯泉. We begin our Sunday Liturgy at
10:30 a.m.
The Orthodox Church began from the time of
Jesus Christ. In the first one thousand years of after Christ, the
churches now known as the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church were the same
church, but disagreements and poor communication caused them to separate. The
Catholic Church is often referred to as "western" whereas the
Orthodox is considered "eastern". The terms are geographical,
originally referring to the Western Roman Empire, centered in Rome, and the
Eastern Roman Empire, centered in Constantinople (now Istanbul). Thus the
center of western Christianity, later adopting the name Catholic (meaning
"universal"), became Rome, with its Pope; and the center of eastern
Christianity, known as Orthodox (meaning "true believing"), became
Constantinople.
There are large numbers of Orthodox
Christians in Central and Eastern Europe, in countries such as Greece in the
south to Russia in the north. And although the countries of the Middle
East and North Africa are predominantly Islamic, those Christian believers
there are mostly Orthodox, and Christianity was established in the Middle East
by the early Apostles of Jesus. In the past hundred years, as people from
traditionally Orthodox regions emigrated all over the world, they planted the
Orthodox Church throughout Europe, the Americas, Australia, Africa, and even
parts of Asia, although they are a small minority in these regions.
To read more, in Chinese as well as English,
click http://theological.asia/ the
official site of the Orthodox Church in Taiwan.