What state can be more blessed than to imitate on earth the choirs of angels?
To begin the day with prayer, and honor our Maker with hymns and songs?
As the day brightens, to betake ourselves, with prayer attending on it throughout,
to our labors, and to season our work with hymns, as food with salt?
The consolation from hymns produces a state of soul that is cheerful and free of sorrow.
+St. Basil the Great (1st Letter)
Your Sacred Music Coordinator serves to support DOMSE’s clergy, choir directors, chanters and parishes in the following ways:
- Directing Parish Life Conference Choirs
- Offering Continuing Sacred Music Education at Parish Life Conferences
- Upon request, visiting parishes to offer personalized music workshops
- Helping to orient chanters and choir directors to the many online sources of music available in both standard Western notation and Byzantine notation
- Vocal coaching
- Representing DOMSE’s musical needs/preferences to the Archdiocesan Music Committee and disseminating the resources provided at the national level to our local DOMSE parishes.
Online Resources
- Archdiocesan Sacred Music Webpage
- Sacred Music Library
- Antiochian Orthodox Ecclesiastical Online Music School
Leadership
