In Orthodox Church we really love to sing
In the Orthodox Church we really love to sing. Prayer and melodious song accompany almost everything we do in the church. At entrances, processions, scripture readings, blessings, and, ultimately, at the offering of bread and wine to God at the Divine Liturgy, liturgical hymnody and song accompany these liturgical actions.
The hymn “Only-begotten,” which we talked about a few weeks ago, actually finds its purpose in the Divine Liturgy as an introit or entrance hymn. We might wonder then: what is an entrance hymn? Well, at the Divine Liturgy it is simply the hymn (troparion) that is sung when all the faithful – clergy and laity – enter the temple. In our current practice, though, it is difficult to see this entrance as an entrance of all the faithful into the temple. Nowadays, instead of everyone entering the temple together at this point, only the clergy make a “small” or “little” entrance into the altar while the people sing, “Come, let us worship and fall down before Christ.” However, in sixth century Byzantium, the time when “Only-begotten” was written, everyone entered the temple together to begin the Divine Liturgy. For the people, it would have been unthinkable that a liturgical action would take place (in this case, their physical movement or procession into the temple) without chanting or singing. So, various entrance hymns for different major feasts began to be written and used for this purpose – so that people would be able to sing as they entered the house of God. “Only-begotten” is simply one of these entrance hymns, which, probably over time, became very popular and eventually found a permanent place in the Divine Liturgy.
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