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Many times we have discussed the Jordonville Prayer Book. Below is a list of the contents available within this wonderful book:

Various-Prayers
-Morning-Prayer
-Prayers-During-the-Day
-Prayers-Before-Sleep
-Selections-from-Vespers
-Selections-from-Matins

The-Divine-Liturgy-of-St.-John-Chrysostom
-SundayTroparia-&-Kontakia
-Daily-Troparia-&-Kontakia
-Tropars-&-Kontaks-of-the-Twelve-Feasts
-Tropars-Kontaks-Prayers-&-Stichiras-from-the-Lenten-Triodion
-Passion-Week-Troparia
-Pascha
-Paschal-Hours
-Tropars-&-Kontaks-of-the-Pentecostarion

Canons
-To-Our-Lord-Jesus-Christ
-To-the-Most-Holy-Theotokos
-To-the-Guardian-Angel
-Repentance-Of-Our-Lord-Jesus-Christ

Akathists
-To-Our-Sweetest-Lord-Jesus-Christ
-To-our-Most-Holy-Lady,-The-Theotokos

For-Holy-Communion
-Canon-of-Preparation-for-Holy-Communion
-Preparatory-Prayers-for-Holy-Communion
-Thanksgiving-after-Holy-Communion

How-One-Should-Pray-in-Church

The-Order-for-Reading-Canons-and-Akathists-when-Alone

Concerning-the-Jesus-Prayer

Please be advised that Thee and Thou are used extensively in the prayer book.

In Christ,

Michael

And wonderful it is, certainly one of the top general prayer books. I have found the Canon of Repentence a wonderful preparation for Confession.
FDD

I love the Jordanville prayerbook as well and use it almost exclusively for daily prayers. My Raya prayerbook comes in a close second

This lovely prayer-book has already nourished two generations. The translator and compiler was Archimandrite Lazarus (Moore), who also produced a translation of the Septuagint Psalter that some of us will have used until the Holy Transfiguration Monastery edition was published.

Father Lazarus produced a nice translation of the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom which was published by a very small group but circulated - it was based on the "standard" Church-Slavonic text of Moscow. It was later reprinted by another small group on Long Island, but is probably unavailable these days.

Father Lazarus translated a fair quantity of liturgical material as well. Unfortunately, the manuscripts fell into the hands of people who were neither in a position to publish them nor willing to allow anyone else to publish them. By now they may well be lost.

Incognitus

For those who wish to be spiritually nourished but are not able to purchase this wonderful prayer book at this time, you can find this awesome work online here. [myriobiblos.gr]

In Christ,

Michael

Hi Michael:

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your comments regarding the wonderful book of prayers that are available in the Jordanville Monastery Prayer Book. They sound fantastic. I am not a member of the Russian Orthodox Church. I am a Catholic of the Roman Rite, but I have a great esteem for the Byzantine Rite of the Catholic Church. I have several friends who are of the Ruthenian Rite and there are Melkite and Maronite Rite Churches in my area.

I saw another beautiful prayerbook mentioned on the Byzantine Forum. I think that it is available from a place in PA known as Hovliaks. I might try to get that one. Thank you and God Bless - May Our Lady Guide You!

John Doucette

I am wondering if someone might have some information about the Orthodox Byzantine Prayer Book Chlib Dusi. I am trying to find out if this prayer book has molebens and akathists in it. If any member of the forum could help me. I would very much appreciate it. Glory to Jesus Christ in all things!

Christ is Risen!

John,

I picked up my copy of Chlib Dusi from Holoviak's a few years ago.

It has various prayers, some hymns, the Divine Liturgy, Vespers, preparation for the mystery of Confession, Parastas and Paraklis, but neither Molebens nor Akathists. There are some interesting old drawings, and the book offers English and Slavonic (transliterated).

In Christ,

John

JOHN:

If you haven't already found a copy of the Clib Dusi prayerbook, Holoviak's still lists it in their online catalogue.

http://www.holoviak.com/acatalog/index.html

BOB

The Chl'ib Dushi prayer-book was originally produced (in Church-Slavonic) by Father Alexander Duchnovich, one of the most important leaders of the nineteenth-century Carpatho-Russian revival. Father Joseph Maczkov, pastor of Saint John's Greek-Catholic Church, Perth Amboy, New Jersey (Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese) then redid the 1925 edition of the book bi-lingually, primarily for the use of his parishioners, but it proved popular far beyond the confines of that one parish. This bi-lingual edition seems to have appeared first in 1949, and to have been published by Vestal Publishers in Perth Amboy. Holoviak has since reprinted it.

If anyone can find a copy - it's long out of print - back in the later nineteen-thirties Father Joseph Mihaly did an excellent bi-lingual prayer-book called Our Daily Bread. A reprint would probably sell nicely.



Fr. Serge

Aleksander Dukhnovych [rusyn.org]

--tim

Father Serge bless!

Was Father Joseph Mihaly an ACROD priest?

In Christ,

John

ACROD?

Yes, he was an ACROD priest, and then later on a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the EP.

In IC XC,
Father Anthony+

All of these abbreviations take some getting used to.