Dear brothers and sisters in Christ —
The simplified Typikon, in Ukrainian and English for the month of June, 2017. Apologies for the delay in the preparation of May and June — work and life conspired to keep the timely completion of the documents at a distance. Will try not to repeat this in the coming months.
Pray for us!
Червень, 2017 — Типікон
June, 2017 — Typikon
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
The Typikon for what remains of the month of May.
Pray for us!
Типікон — Травень, 2017, українською | Typikon — May, 2017, in English.
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ —
The Lenten Spring is almost over! This month’s simplified Typikon — in Ukrainian and in English.
A sweet, determined and blessed end to the Fast! God’s merciful and healing love to all — and pure and un-tempered joy at the coming Pascha!
Pray for us!
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ —
Music of Holy Pascha — the Resurrection of our Lord, God and Saviour, Jesus Christ — The Feast of Feasts: Paschal Matins:
in Ukrainian | in English | in parallel Ukrainian and English
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ —
A useful file for parish cantors and readers — Prokeimena and Alleluia Verses of the Octoechos, General Menaion, Lenten Triodion and Pentecostarion — formatted for 3″x5″ index cards, easily attached to the interior of Epistle books.
Care should be taken to test the paper feed of your own printers (if printing off at home or at the parish office) before committing the whole file to print. These settings vary from printer to printer, but can generally be managed through the Adobe Acrobat Print dialogue box.
Pray for us!
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ —
Updated and revised music in Ukrainian and English for Palm Sunday:
Mirrored Ukrainian and English Music | Ноти — Українскою | Music — in English
The Vesperal Service in the Orthodox Church can have four different orders: Daily Vespers, Lenten Vespers, Paschal Vespers,and Great Vespers. In addition, Great Vespers can be served in conjunction with Matins, to form the All-night Vigil. The booklet you hold in your hands contains the fixed parts of the service of Great Vespers and the 9th hour, and is intended for use when Great Vespers is served by itself on Saturday evening and the eve of feast days, with or without the Litia.
When served by itself, Great Vespers is usually preceded by the 9th hour. The hours of prayer are short, read (not sung) services, which correspond roughly to dawn (1st hour), morning (3rd hour), midday (6th hour), and mid-afternoon (9th hour), comprised of the opening prayers, 3 psalms, hymns, and prayers. These “canonical hours of prayer” have Biblical roots, and, along with Matins, Vespers, and Compline are a manifestation of the “sanctification of time”. It is normal to “aggregate” the hours to the nearest “main” service: the 1st hour following Matins, the 3rd and 6th hours preceding the Liturgy, and the 9th hour preceding Vespers. The 9th hour is the last service of the liturgical day (e.g., the 9th hour on Saturday afternoon is the last service of Saturday, and so we would read the festal or daily tropar and kondak for Saturday during the 9th hour), and Vespers is the first service of the new day (e.g., Vespers on Saturday evening is the first service of Sunday, so all the stykhyry, hymns, the dismissal, etc., are all for Sunday).
Depending on the local parish practice and the particular solemnity of the day or feast being celebrated, certain portions of the service will change.
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ —
The order of services for March.
For any word, thought, or deed that led you astray — forgive me, a sinner.
A blessed Lent.
Pray for us!
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
In preparation for the coming Lenten Spring: Half-letter sized Booklets for the Passia service, with mirrored Ukrainian and English texts.
By Your crucifixion, crucify me from this world with its temptations and desires.
By Your Cross, hide me from the invisible enemies which seek to capture my soul.
With Your pierced feet, turn my feet from every evil path.
With Your pierced hands, keep my hands from every deed which is unworthy of You.
You, Who were nailed to the Cross in the flesh, nail my flesh to fear of You,
so that I might turn away from all evil, and do only that which is pleasing to You.
You, Who bowed Your head upon the Cross, bow down my proud, earthly pretentiousness in humility.
Protect my ears with Your crown of thorns, so that I would hear nothing other than that which is virtuous.
You, Who tasted the gall with Your lips, place a guard about my unclean lips.
You, Whose heart was pierced with a spear — create a clean heart within me.
With Your wounds, sweetly wound all of me to love for You,
so that I would love You, my Lord, with my whole soul, my whole heart, with all my strength, and with all my mind.
The pdf files are meant to be printed, double-sided on letter size (8.5″x11″) paper (2 pages per side, 24 sheets of paper in all); folded in half and saddle-stitched to form half-letter sized booklets. Though the default Acrobat .pdf print auto-scaling has been disabled in the file, it would be good to print a complete double-sided spread to test your own system/printer settings before committing to a large print run. Auto-scaling tends to shrink and reposition the content — and in a booklet application, that means shifting the spine of the finished booklet so that the content is no longer centered on an uncropped page. The file is designed to avoid additional cropping. If you opt to print this at home or at a parish office and do not have a sophisticated printer/copier/collating/binding system, testing to arrive at the proper settings is a good idea. If you opt to have this printed at a commercial printer’s, remind them that the inside pages are meant to be mirrored: i.e. Ukrainian page 5 on the left | English page 5 on the right — and so on.
Спаси, Господи.
Моліться за нас!
