Personal prayer in the "cell"
The Church Year
    Calendars and guides
    Great Lent and Pascha
      Lenten Triodion
    Pentecost
General Instructions
Fasting
Vigil, vespers and matins
    Vespers
    Matins
Divine Liturgy
Scripture
Reference
Liturgical English
Misc Articles
Links to very useful things

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Personal prayer in the "cell"

• The Cell Rule of Five Hundred of the Optina Monastery
• The Seven Bow Beginning
• Before any rule of private prayer
• Lectionary for the Kellia
• Pravilo (Rule for preparation for communion) for the unlettered
• Read the Bible in a Year
• By reading one chapter a day out of each of 8 sections of the Bible.

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The Church Year

• Calendars and guides

• • Current Julian Calendar
  • PDF Format
  • S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers
  • Translated by Fr. Eugene Tarris
    Offsite

  Great Lent and Pascha

• • Great Lent materials (including the typicon)
  • Pascha materials (including the typicon)
  • Dates of Great Lent and Pascha through 2010

  • Lenten Triodion

  • • Preparation for Great Lent
    • Sunday of the Prodigal Son
    • Meatfare Week, Meatfare Saturday and the Commemoration of the Departed
    • Sunday of Meatfare or of the Last Judgment
    • Saturday before Cheesefare
    • Commemoration of the Ascetics
    • Cheesefare Sunday
    • The Second Week of Great Lent
    • The Fourth Week of Great Lent

  Pentecost

• • Russian Orthodox Typicon Notes & Explanation for Pentecost from the Bulgakov Handbook

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General Instructions

• INSTRUCTION TO THE CANTOR [1] ON HOW TO READ IN CHURCH
• Compiled in accordance with the teaching of the holy fathers and ascetics, according to the directions of the church Typicon and on the basis of the Russian Orthodox Church's centuries-old experience in the divine services.
• Comments on Reader Services by Archbishop Averky, of blessed memory
• Vestment Colors: From the Russian Church's Nastol'naya Kniga Sviashchenno-sluzhitelia
• The Significance Of The Practical Study Of Liturgics
• Concerning the Office of Deacon in the Russian Orthodox Church - from the Bulgakov Handbook.

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Fasting

• Fasting Rules on the Nativity
• (with a translation from the Typicon)
• Nativity Fasting Typicon
• A Translation from the typicon and other reference material
• About Fasting
• Fasting and "Oil" days
• The Apostles Fast - is it ever skipped by those using the New Calendar or Old Calendar?
• Great Lent Fasting Typicon according to the Orthodox Western Rite

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Vigil, vespers and matins

• Description of a "Real" All Night vigil
• In Russia - 1911
• When a monk serves vigil ...

• Vespers

• • What considerations govern the omission of the first Vespers kathisma on vigils of certain Great Feasts: "Blazhen myzh ne poyetsya"?

  Matins

• • Extinguishing Candles during the Six Psalms
  • In the altar during the Six Psalms
  • St John Maximovitch's Abbreviated method for reading the Sunday kathismas at Matins in parishes

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Divine Liturgy

• Concerning the inaudible prayers at the divine liturgy antiphons
• by Protopresbyter Valery Lukianov

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Scripture

• How was it decided what scripture we should read each day?
• An Examination of how the Gospel and Apostolos Lectionary is used throughout the year
• How to read the Epistle in the Divine Liturgy
• Full rubrics, from the Slavonic Apostolos
• Lectionary for the Kellia
• St John Maximovitch's Abbreviated method for reading the Sunday kathismas at Matins in parishes
• Why is the Bright Tue liturgy reading Luke 24:12-35, and not from John?

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Reference

• Current Julian Calendar
• PDF Format
• Commemoration of the Dead in the Orthodox Church
• Traditional days of remembrance
• Concerning the service rank of feasts and commemorations in the Russian tradition
• Refrains for Reading Canons
• Akathist rubrics - Eastern and Russian Orthodox Typicon (Ustav)
• The Order for reading Canons and Akathists When alone
• The Order Of Divine Services Supplementary Texts
• Additions to the Order of Divine Services published by St John of Kronstadt Press
  This is a large PDF File with Two sections:
  Supplement 1 - Lenten Services during the Lesser Fasts
  Supplement 2 - The Saturday Requiem Service

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Liturgical English

• Thou, Thee, and Archaic Grammar
• by A. Davies, R. Lipton, D. Richoux et al.
  Offsite
• Archaic English Grammar
• Offsite
• A Note on Shakespeare's Grammar
• Offsite
• The Lukan Jump
• Several Explanations

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Misc Articles

• A Strong reason for Traditional Liturgical Language - Theological precision!
• The Paraclesis Service to the Theotokos or another Saint
• Presanctified Liturgy question - Why is the curtain left half open?
• Thoughts about the office of Reader in the Orthodox Church
• The benefits of a Theological Education at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary

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Links to very useful things

• Slavonic Great Octoechos