This is a bilingual pocket-sized prayerbook bound in flexible white vinyl containing frequently-used prayers for Orthodox Christians to use at home and church. It contains the daily morning and evening prayers, pravers for various needs and occasions, examination of concience for confession, plus the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, as it is celebrated in Slavic tradition. English is the primary language, but most of the prayers also appear in Old Church Slavonic (ancient Russian) on the facing page. The first edition was published in 1948 under the auspices of the Russian Metropolia in America, now known as the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). The English prayers use traditional Elizabethan forms.

Orthodox Prayer Book: For Use By the Faithful of the Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church

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St. Tikhon's Seminary Press

The Occasional Services Expanded and Supplemented. This four-volume series is an indispensible resource for all clergy for it contains the prayers and services for all aspects of Church life. VOLUME I features the prayers of the Holy Mysteries, VOLUME II features prayers regarding the sanctification of the temple and other ecclesiastical and liturgical blessing. VOLUME III features the Occasional Services, including funeral orders and offices as well as commemorations of the departed. VOLUME IV has the Services of Supplication (Moliebens).

Great Book of Needs Volume 3: The Occasional Services

Religion & Spirituality

St Tikhon's Monastery

Christian Books & Bibles

Services of Supplication (Moliebens) Expanded and Supplemented. This four-volume series is an indispensible resource for all clergy for it contains the prayers and services for all aspects of Church life. VOLUME I features the prayers of the Holy Mysteries, VOLUME II features prayers regarding the sanctification of the temple and other ecclesiastical and liturgical blessing. VOLUME III features the Occasional Services, including funeral orders and offices as well as commemorations of the departed. VOLUME IV has the Services of Supplication (Moliebens).

The Great Book of Needs: Expanded and Supplemented Vol4: Services of Supplication (Moliebens)

<p>Includes the text and musical notations for the service of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete in Great Compline during the first week of Great Lent, and in Matins on the fifth Thursday of Great Lent. Musical settings by V. Rev. Theodore Heckman Text selection and preparation by Sergei Arhipov</p>

The Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete: Grand Compline, First Week of Great Lent, Matins, Fifth Thursday of Great Lent

<p>Orthodox spirituality has as its goal the deification of man and his union with God, without being merged with Him. It has as a basic conviction the existence of a personal God, who is the supreme source of radiating love. He prizes man and doesn't want to confuse him with Himself, but maintains and raises him to an eternal dialogue of love. Such a spirituality has no place where an evolutionary progress of man, connected to a divinity conceived as an impersonal essence, is affirmed. This progress can have no result other than man's disappearance in the impersonal divinity. But the personal God, and thus the supreme source of love, can't be conceived of as a single person, but as a community of persons in a perfect unity. You see then why the Christian teaching of a Trinity of Persons in a unity of essence is the only one which can constitute the basis of a perfect spirituality for man, understood as a full communion with God in love, without his being lost in it. Dumitru Staniloae, Orthodox Spirituality It should be remembered, especially in the Western context, that the roots of Christian theology are not only Western, but reach deeply into the theological mind and the living Christian experience of the Orthodox East. Before the medieval political and cultural schism between the Latin and Greek worlds and the subsequent Protestant Reformation, the Christian West was itself, in fact, Orthodox, part and parcel of one united, albeit admittedly bi-polar, Byzantine Commonwealth. In our own time, as Western culture once again gradually comes to recognition of the "Eastern" Orthodox Church as being existentially part of its own root tradition, the imperative of discovering common ground and defining a common frame of reference relative to essentials of Christian spiritual life arises as a matter of some urgency. -Alexander Golubov, Foreword,Orthodox Spirituality</p>

Orthodox Spirituality: A Practical Guide for the Faithful and a Definitive Manual for the Scholar

Dumitru Stăniloae