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The Great Book of Needs, Expanded and Supplemented, Volume IV: Services of Supplication (Moliebens)

Translated from Church Slavonic with notes by St. Tikhon’s Monastery

Volume IV of The Great Book of Needs, Expanded and Supplemented

“The Service of Supplication (lit. ‘Supplicatory Singing’—hereafter referred to as ‘Molieben’) signifies a special Divine Service in which the Lord, His Mother, and His Saints are entreated concerning the sending down of mercy from God or thanksgiving to God for the receiving of benefits. The composition of such Services closely resembles Matins. They may be celebrated in the temple itself, in private homes, or as part of a Cross-Procession.”
—“Services of Supplication (Moliebens)”

CONTENTS

Introductory Prayers
General Directives
I. GENERAL CALAMITIES
1. A MOLIEBEN SUNG UNTO OUR LORD GOD, JESUS CHRIST, IN TIME OF INCLEMENT WEATHER, WHEN MUCH RAIN COMES UNSEASONABLY
2. A MOLIEBEN SUNG IN TIME OF DROUGHT
3. A MOLIEBEN IN TIME OF FLOOD
4. A MOLIEBEN SUNG IN TIME OF DEVASTATING EPIDEMIC AND DEATHBEARING PESTILENCE
5. THE ORDER OF SUPPLICATION IN TIME OF RUINOUS PESTILENCE OF LIVESTOCK
6. A MOLIEBEN FOR THE SALVATION OF [OUR LAND] AND THE APPEASING IN IT OF DISCORD AND STRIFE
7. A MOLIEBEN TO THE LORD GOD SUNG IN TIME OF WAR AGAINST ADVERSARIES FIGHTING AGAINST US
8. THE OFFICE FOR VARIOUS LITYAS AND VIGILS OF SUPPLICATION
   —AN OFFICE OF MOLIEBEN SUNG UNTO OUR LORD GOD, JESUS CHRIST, IN TIME OF INCLEMENT WEATHER, WHEN MUCH RAIN COMES UNSEASONABLY
   —AN OFFICE IN TIME OF DROUGHT
   —A CANON SUNG WHEN IN FEAR OF EARTHQUAKE
   —A PRAYER AT THE THREAT FROM MALEVOLENT WINDS AND SEA STORMS
   —A PRAYER AT THE THREAT OF THUNDER AND LIGHTNING
   —A CANON SUNG TO THE MOST-HOLY, CONSUBSTANTIAL, LIFEGIVING AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY, AND TO ALL THE SAINTS, WHEN THERE IS THE THREAT OF DEVASTATING SICKNESS
   —ANOTHER PRAYER TO THE LORD SAID IN TIME OF DEVASTATION AND FAMINE, THE WORK OF THE MOST SACRED PATRIARCH KALLISTOS
   —A PRAYER OF SUPPLICATION AT EVERY LITYA
II. GENERAL SUPPLICATIONS
9. A GENERAL MOLIEBEN
10. A CANON OF SUPPLICATION TO THE MOST-HOLY THEOTOKOS, SUNG IN EVERY SPIRITUAL AFFLICTION AND CIRCUMSTANCE
11. A MOLIEBEN FOR THE NEW YEAR
12. A MOLIEBEN FOR CIVIL FEAST DAYS
13. A MOLIEBEN FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE INSTRUCTION OF CHILDREN
14. AN OFFICE (MOLIEBEN) FOR STUDENTS HAVING DIFFICULTY LEARNING
15. A MOLIEBEN FOR INVOKING THE HELP OF THE HOLY SPIRIT BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF EVERY GOOD WORK
16. A MOLIEBEN FOR THE SICK, WHETHER ONE OR MANY
17. THE ORDER OF BLESSING (MOLIEBEN) FOR A JOURNEY BY AIR
18. THE ORDER OF BLESSING (MOLIEBEN) FOR A JOURNEY BY LAND
19. THE ORDER OF BLESSING (MOLIEBEN) FOR THEM THAT ARE ABOUT TO TRAVEL BY WATER
20. A MOLIEBEN OF THANKSGIVING FOR THE RECEIVING OF A PETITION AND FOR EVERY GOOD GIFT OF GOD
21. THE MOLIEBEN ON HOLY PASCHA
III. OTHER BLESSINGS
22. THE ORDER OF THE BLESSING OF A NEW HOME
23. THE ORDER OF PRAYER AT THE DIGGING OF A WELL AND THE FINDING OF WATER
24. THE ORDER OF THE BLESSING OF A NEW WELL
25. THE ORDER FOR THE BLESSING OF A NEW SHIP OR BOAT
26. THE ORDER OF THE BLESSING OF BEES
27. THE BLESSING OF BEEHIVES OF AN APIARY
APPENDIX: Dismissals
   DAYS OF THE WEEK
   FESTAL CYCLE
   LENTEN CYCLE
   PASCHAL CYCLE

Item Number: BKST589C
Publication data: South Canaan, PA: St. Tikhon’s Seminary Press, 1999
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: xvi + 390
Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.7 cm × 16.3 cm × 3.3 cm
Additional information: two-color printing
ISBN: 1‒878997‒59‒9

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