This Akathist, also called the Akathist of Thanksgiving, was composed by Protopresbyter Gregory Petrov in prison camp shortly before his death in 1940. His work is a comprehensive celebration of Gods glory as found throughout a broad examination of life and in the smallest things and most mundane circumstances. It is a celebration as understood perhaps best by one from whom all beauty was seemingly denied, a song of praise from amidst the most terrible sufferings. The title is taken from the words of St. John Chrysostom as he was dying in exile.
1. Kontakion 1 and Ikos 1* 1:57
2. Kontakion and Ikos 2 1:56
3. Kontakion and Ikos 3 2:01
4. Kontakion and Ikos 4 2:02
5. Kontakion and Ikos 5 1:40
6. Kontakion and Ikos 6 2:05
7. Kontakion and Ikos 7 1:37
8. Kontakion and Ikos 8 1:43
9. Kontakion and Ikos 9 1:44
10. Kontakion and Ikos 10 1:40
11. Kontakion and Ikos 11 1:40
12. Kontakion and Ikos 12 2:19
13. Kontakion 13 1:32
14. Ikos and Kontakion 1 2:47
