This handy prayer book includes not only the usual services and prayers of the day (midnight office, matins, table prayers, vespers, compline), but also other prayer texts (greetings, supplications to the Theotokos and Christ), as well as blessings that are not found in other prayer books, such as prayers of the lamp, prayers in case of an earthquake, in the threat of war, for illness, in case of mourning, in drought, before traveling by ship, regarding the start of the 24-hour period, etc.

Contents

Foreword 7

Introduction to Prayer 11

Introductory Prayer 19

Daily Midnight Office 23

Sunday Midnight Office 39

Matins 41

Resurrectional Apolytikion 77

Apolytikia and Kontakia of the Week 85

Apolytikia of the Saints 92

Morning and Afternoon Prayers 102

Table Prayers 111

Hour of Nine 114

Prayers of the Lamp 124

Vespers 131

Small Compline 144

Great Lenten Prayers 161

Paschal Service 173

The Greetings to the Theotokos 178

Small Supplication 195

Great Supplication 218

Service of Holy Communion 234

Canon to Jesus Christ 277

Prayer and Fasting 290

Prayers for Various Circumstances: According to the 24-hour Measure 300

At the Beginning of the New Year 303

Petition for Salvation 304

Before Reading 304

Resurrection Prayer 305

For the Sick 306

Another Prayer for the Sick 307

For Heart Diseases 309

For Protection from Demons 310

In Case of Mourning 312

Before Traveling by Ship 312

In Case of War 313

In Case of Earthquake Threat 316

In Case of Drought 317

For Animal Diseases 318