"You have preserved the image of the one you have preserved unscathed", Sacred Idiomel (of Vatopedi Choir)

Listen to the famous doxasticus of the vespers of St. Anthony performed by the Vatopedi Choir. It is a poem by St. Theodore of Sykeot in which he summarizes the content of the day's synaxarium and the wonders of the life of the great teacher of the desert.

The chant interpretation in turn "visualizes" this meaning with the rhythmic and melismatic member of the Vatopedi Doxastikarion, a member that is both modern and ancient, with references and origins from the sticheraion, which was recently handed down by the composer Fr. Theophanes of Vatopedi and is in liturgical use in the Vatopedi lecterns and beyond.

Sound of the second floor

"You have kept the image unscathed, your mind a ruler against the passions of destruction, ascetically erect, in the likeness as possible you have been unscathed; for manly nature being oppressed, you have hastened to subject the hand to the ruler, and to make the flesh serve the spirit. From thence, you have shown yourself to be a scoundrel, a civilizer of the desert, a smooth-running anointer, a most exact rule of virtue, and now in heaven, the mirrors, Anthony, you oversee the Holy Trinity, immediately succeeding, on behalf of those who honor you with faith and desire."