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
Order of the Blessing of Spacecraft
 
This second printing, published in April 2026, features an upgraded cloth-over-boards construction with smyth-sewn binding and two ribbon bookmarks.