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YouTube videos about the English-language liturgical resource, The Divine Liturgy: An Anthology for Worship (Ottawa: Sheptytsky Institute, 2004) by Fr. Peter Galadza

Joseph Roll has kindly shared his classic work Music of the Ukrainian Catholic Church for Congregational Singing, digitzed version with further revision (Stamford, Ct.: St. Basil’s Seminary, 2014). The book provides music in Ukrainian for the Divine Liturgies, Baptisms, Weddings, parts of the liturgical year, and more. Click the button above for a pdf.

Despite of the turmoil of the Second World War, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky felt it was necessary to explain liturgical prayer to his flock and to emphasize the importance of singing in church and its connection to prayer.

A presentation by Deacon Daniel Galadza at the Sheptytsky Institute in Toronto from 2018 on the church singing traditions of the Kyiv Caves Lavra and the Lviv Stavropegial Brotherhood and how the two centres of liturgical life preserved and transmitted their traditions.

A lecture by Daniel Galadza, part of a webinar series on "Eastern Catholic Theology in Action" presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Godbearer Institute.
From the fourth to eighth centuries, liturgical commentaries flourished to explain the meaning of the sacramental life of the Church. Notably after the fourth century, the tradition of Jerusalem developed another genre for mystagogy, namely hymnography. As part of the structure of the liturgical services, they explain to the faithful what is happening during the services, rather than before or after the celebration. In this way, hymnography has an exegetical function, commenting on scripture and the mystery of salvation in Christ. Dr. Galadza will explore this hymnographic tradition and its relation to the formation of liturgical theology.