This book is a rich anthology of Liturgical Chant, essential for the practice and experience of prospective Church leaders. It is offered as a guidebook for chanting and worship for clergy and cantors.

The hymns of the services and divine liturgies of all liturgical types, including Byzantine, Antiochian, and Alexandrian, have been systematically recorded according to the methods established by the Church's chant tradition after many years of work.

It includes the chants of:

• a) the eight liturgies of various liturgical types: St. John Chrysostom, St. Basil the Great, Apostolic Constitutions, St. James the Brother of the Lord, and St. Mark the Apostle, St. Gregory the Theologian, the Alexandrian type, Pre-Sanctified Gifts of the Byzantine, and Pre-Sanctified Gifts of St. James the Brother of the Lord, of the Antiochian type.
• b) Ten services of the variant and monastic tradition: Monastic Matins (of the Three Hierarchs), Matins of Theophany, Matins of Great Lent, Great Canon, Great Compline, Service of the Hours, Trihexal Ode of the All-Night Vigil, Memorials, Akathists to the Theotokos.
• c) the Holy Unction and the Small Blessing of Water.