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

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.

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

Pentecost


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.


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


Vigil, vespers and matins

Description of a "Real" All Night vigil
In Russia - 1911

When a monk serves vigil ...

Vespers

Matins


Divine Liturgy

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

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?


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

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

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


Links to very useful things

Slavonic Great Octoechos