Our music pages contain an extensive sampling of the type of Byzantine chant you will hear at St. Elias Church. If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, consider coming and singing with us this Sunday!

It is a time honored Eastern tradition that the liturgical services are entirely chanted. Even the readings from Scripture are read with a melodic liturgical intonation to elevate the soul and enhance appreciation for the Word.

 

The recordings provided in the following pages are meant primarily to help parishioners and visitors learn the hymns and responses of the services and promote active participation in the liturgy. The chants are mostly taken from the Melkite Hymnal, an English setting of the hymns of the Melkite services compiled in the 1970s by the late Archimandrite Fr. Cyril Haddad. 

 

We heartily thank the chanters who generously donated their time in singing, recording, digitizing, and distributing these treasures of our Antiochian Byzantine Tradition.​

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Hymns of the Divine Liturgy (English)​

Hymns of the Divine Liturgy (Arabic)

Hymns in Tone 1

Hymns in Tone 2

Hymns in Tone 3

Hymns in Tone 4

Hymns in Tone 5

Hymns in Tone 6

Hymns in Tone 7

Hymns in Tone 8

Menaion (Festal hymns)

Triodion (Lent to Holy Week)

Pascha to Pentecost

Other liturgical services​​​