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The Parish Book of Needs (Trebnik)

This book contains newly redacted offices, orders, prayers and blessings in Revised Liturgical English® (RLE) that form a practical handbook for the administration of Orthodox Christian parish needs. Although clergy have ready copies of frequently-needed services such as the rites of Holy Baptism and Matrimony, they may have difficulty locating many of the more occasional offices and prayers, such as:

  • Prayers for women & infants

  • Prayer for a woman in difficult labor

  • Office at the adoption of a child

  • Blessing of the marriage of heterodox converts

  • Prayers for the reestablishment of a marriage after a divorce

  • Prayer after an attempted suicide

  • Service of consolation after a suicide

  • Prayer for one condemned to death

  • Prayer at the time of execution of one condemned

  • Service of Burial for a non-Orthodox

  • Prayers at the induction of parish officers

  • Various blessings of liturgical objects

  • Dismissals

  • Blessings throughout the liturgical year

  • The Order of Confession and prayers after Confession

  • Canon of Supplication for the dying

The Liturgical Psalter

The RLE® Liturgical Psalter is a superior, accurate, and poetic recension based on Hebrew, Latin, Slavonic, and traditional English translations. It is a true liturgical Psalter with sequential readings and prayers following each Kathisma. The model for this volume is the common Church Slavonic Psalter (the "Liturgical" or "Sequential" Psalter), which presents didactic material and the Psalms themselves as a book to be used in private and liturgical prayer. The numbering of the Psalms conforms to the Septuagint, with an easy-to-read poetic meter and quadratic verse structure, and occasional diacritics and accents to enforce the intended poetic meter. This volume features traditional English pronoun usage (Thee/Thou).

 

Contents include:

  • The Athanasian Creed

  • Commentary of St. Basil the Great on the Holy Psalter

  • Sayings of St. Augustine

  • Commentary of Theodoret

  • The Rule of the Holy Fathers

  • Rubrics for reading the Psalter throughout the year

  • Prayers before reading the Psalter

  • The Psalms, with prayers and Troparia used at the end of each Kathisma

  • Prayers after reading the Psalter

  • The Biblical Odes

  • Magnifications and selected verses for major feasts and saints by category

  • Order at the Departure of the Soul from the Body

  • Reading the Psalter over the departed

  • Commemoration of the living and the departed

  • Order of the 12 Psalms

  • Concerning the cell rule

  • Appendix — Kathisma tables

  • Icon of St. David by the hand of Niko Chocheli

The Apostol

Since its first publication in 1996, the RLE Apostol has proven the test of time and has become the preferred standard text in the liturgical life of the English-speaking Orthodox Church around the world, praised for its traditional language, poetic cadence, clarity and readability. 

 

This book provides the texts of the Epistle readings, Prokeimena, Alleluia verses, Communion hymns, and Antiphons used in the divine services throughout the liturgical year. It also contains indexes based on the liturgical cycles prescribed by the Orthodox Church, and several sections outlining both daily and occasional services. 

 

The editors recognize the reality of the broad patterns of diversity in the ethnic composition, as well as the historical and jurisdictional understandings of Orthodoxy in North America. Consequently, this volume includes as many locally-revered saints as possible, with special emphasis given to saints glorified and/or especially revered by the Orthodox Church in America. We sincerely hope and pray that through the intercessions of the enlighteners, martyrs, teachers, and defenders of Orthodoxy in America, and the entreaties of the Most Holy Theotokos, we may be granted true unity of faith in this new vineyard of our Lord Jesus Christ that is still, it is safe to say, in the process of being planted. 

 

Contents include:

  • Instructions concerning Prokeimena and Alleluia verses

  • Pericopes 1-335

  • Antiphons, Prokeimena and Epistle readings for the entire liturgical year

  • Antiphons, Prokeimena and Epistle readings for the festal cycle

  • Sunday Prokeimena and Alleluia verses from the Octoechos

  • Common Prokeimena, Alleluia verses and Communion hymns for every day

  • Daily Antiphons

  • Common services for commemoration of all the saints

  • Prokeimena, Epistle readings and Alleluia verses for special occasions

The New Kliros Library for Reader & Choir

In the New Kliros Library for Reader and Choir, Aorist Press presents a complete collection of Orthodox Christian service texts and liturgical music in never-before-published Revised Liturgical English® recensions. 

Series 1 — Lent

Vol. 1 - Forgiveness Sunday Vespers

Vol. 2 - Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete

Vol 2A - Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete (text only) w/ Life of St. Mary of Egypt

Vol. 3 - Presanctified Liturgy

Vol. 4 - Sundays of Lent

Vol. 5 - Saturday of the Akathist

Vol. 6 - St. Lazarus Saturday

Vol. 7 - Palm Sunday

Vol. 8 - Holy Week, Part 1

Vol. 9 - Holy Week, Part 2

Series 2 — Pentecostarion

Vol. 1 - Holy Pascha

Vol. 2 - Bright Week

Vol. 3 - Sundays After Pascha

Vol. 4 - Midfeast

Vol. 5 - Ascension

Vol. 6 - Pentecost

Vol. 7 - All Saints

Vol. 8 - All Saints of North America

Series 3 — Ordinaries

Vol. 1 - Octoechos, Tones 1-4

Vol. 2 - Octoechos, Tones 5-8

Vol. 3 - Common of Vespers

Vol. 4 - Common of Compline/Nocturn

Vol. 5 - Common of Matins / Great Vigil

Series 4 — Great Feasts

Vol. 1 - Nativity of Our Lord

Vol. 2 - Theophany

Vol. 3 - Meeting of the Lord

Vol. 4 - Transfiguration

Vol. 5 - Exaltation of the Cross

Vol. 6 - Nativity of the Theotokos

Vol. 7 - Annunciation of the Theotokos

Vol. 8 - Dormition of the Theotokos

Series 5 — Menaion

Vol. 1 - September

Vol. 2 - October

Vol. 3 - November

Vol. 4 - December

Vol. 5 - January

Vol. 6 - February

Vol. 7 - March

Vol. 8 - April

Vol. 9 - May

Vol. 10 - June

Vol. 11 - July

Vol. 12 - August

Series 6 — Needs

Vol. 1 - Entry Into the Church

Vol. 2 - Holy Repentance

Vol. 3 - Holy Matrimony

Vol. 4 - Holy Oil (Anointing)

Vol. 5 - Holy Orders and Monastic Tonsure

Vol. 6 - Funerals and the Commemoration of the Departed

Vol. 7 - Moliebens

Vol. 8 - Various Blessings

Vol. 9 - Blessing of Ecclesial Places and Objects

Coming Soon
Trebnik
Psalter
Apostol
New Kliros Library
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