Akathist of Thanksgiving - Music CD

The Akathist of Thanksgiving, as sung by Saint Ignatius Antiochian Church in Madison, Wisconsin. Note: St. Ignatius celebrates the Akathist with Little Compline several times per year, especially on the eve of American Thanksgiving. In English. Background of this Akathist service: Since the fall of Communism, the Church – and the entire world – has been made aware of the crimes against humanity committed in Russia and the former Soviet Union for the cause of atheist “revolution.” An estimated 45 million people were slaughtered out of a programmed hatred and paranoia. Terror, betrayal, distrust, isolation, self-preservation, hopelessness and faithlessness defined the God-less Bolshevik order. We honor those Christians who refused to compromise their faith in Jesus Christ – hundreds of thousands of names, some known, though most known only to God – as Passion-bearers, New Martyrs, and Saints. Metropolitan Tryphon (Boris Petrovich Turkestanov, 1861-1934) was one of the venerable hierarchs