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Table of Contents
Volume 1
The Holy Mysteries
Preface
General Instructions to the Priest on Parish Service of Needs
A Note on Terminology
Introductory Prayers
Entry into the Church
Prayers on the first day after a woman has given birth to a child
Prayers at the naming of a child on the eight day of birth
Prayer for a woman on the fortieth day of childbirth
Prayer for a woman when she has a miscarried/aborted an infant
Prayers at the making of a catechumen
The office of Holy Baptism
The office of Holy Anointing (Chrismation)
Exhortation by the priest to the sponsor after the baptism of an infant
The ablution and tonsure on the eighth day
A prayer for holy baptism, that is, how briefly to baptize an infant when there is fear of death.
Completion by the priest of the office of Holy Baptism if it was performed by a layman
The office for receiving into the Orthodox Church such persons who abbe not previously been Orthodox but, from infancy have been reared in heresy, yet received valid Baptism in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, while rejecting the rest of the Holy Mysteries and church customs, and holding other opinions contrary to the Orthodox Church.
The office for receiving those coming to the Orthodox Church from the Armenian Confession (also used for those coming from: Other Non-Chalcedonian (Coptic, Jacobite, Ethiopian, Indian); Nestorian; Roman-Latin; Lutheran; Reformed)
The odic for anointing with Chrism such persons who have come to the Orthodox Faith and have united themselves with the Orthodox-Catholic Church.
The office for receiving those coming to our Holy Church from the Jewish Faith (Also used for those coming from Islam and Paganism)
Concerning joining the Orthodox Church before death
The rule of Methods, Patriarch of Constantinople, concerning the return from Apostasy of various persons to the True Orthodox Faith.
Prayer of purification, for one returning to the True Faith from Apostasy.
Holy Repentance
Preface and instruction concerning how it behooves a confessor to behave and to instruct without contradiction them that come to him.
The order of Confession
Exhortation to the penitent before Confession
(Continuation of the ORDER OF CONFESSION)
Exhortation from the Spiritual Father to the Spiritual Child after the Confession of sins.
General questions asked by the Confessors
Prayers on the absolution from penance
The Eucharist
The office for Priests who have been tempted in sleep
The office when in extreme urgency occasion arises to give communion to a sick person.
Holy Matrimony
Holy Matrimony (Preparations)
The order that is used at Betrothals
The order of the Crowning
Prayer at the taking off of the crowns on the Eight Day
The scroll Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople and Confessor
The office for a second Marriage
The Oil (Anointing)
The offie of Holy Oil (Anointing), sung by seven Priests assembled in a church or in a home
The office of Holy Oil (Brief from)
Holy Orders
A note on Clerical ranks
The office for the setting-apart of a Reader and a Cantor.
The office for the Ordination of a Subdeacon
The office for the Ordination of a Deacon
The office used at the elevation of an Archdeacon or a Protodeacon
The office used at the ordination of a Presbyter
The order of the office for the making of a Protopresbyter (Archpriest)
The office used at the elevation of an Igumen (Abbot)
The office used at the elevation of an Archimandrite
Exhortation at the entrusting of a monastic flock to an Archimandrite (or Igumen)
The office of confession and answering of a Bishop (and the laying-on of hands)
The Blessing of Waters
The order of the Lesser Sanctification of Waters
The order of the Great Sanctification of Waters of Holy Theophany
VIII.The Monastic Tonsure
The order of clothing in Raisa and Kamilavka (I)
The order of clothing in Riasa and Kamilavka (II)
The order of the Lesser Schima (little habit), that is, of the Mantiya
The order of the Great Angelic Schema (great habit)
Prayer at the laying aside of the Cowl
Appendix: Dismissals
Days of the Week
Festal Cycle
Lenten Cycle
Paschal Cycle
