Sea Tranquility Academy - Calming Rainfall

AKAFIST (late Greek akatistos, from Greek a - negative. Particle not and katizo - I sit down) - a cycle of laudatory songs churches singing Christ and saints. Performed by prayers standing (hence the name). Has a byzant. origin. It consists of 25 stanzas, the initial letters of the 2nd-25th stanzas form acrostic of 24 letters of Greek. alphabet. In glory. per. , as well as in A. Rus. the origin of acrostic is broken. The 1st stanza - kondak, serves as an introduction calling for the glorification of the saint, and ends with the greeting "Rejoice . . . ". The second stanza - ikos - contains 12 new greetings “Rejoice . . . ” and ends with the greeting of the 1st kondak. Kontakion and ikos constitute a link, on the model of which 11 more links are written, but their kondaky ends with the word "Hallelujah. " The last, 25th stanza - kondak - contains a prayer appeal to the saint and ends with the triple “Hallelujah”. Chant of the 1st Byzant.