2022 eTypikon
A practical guide to the ustav for parishes, describing the Offices of the Byzantine liturgical year. By Father Bohdan Hladio.
Rites of Betrothal and Crowning (UA•EN)
The Orthodox Rite of Betrothal and the Holy Mystery of the Crowning (the Marriage Rites). In Ukrainian and English.
Forgiveness Vespers (UA•EN)
The service of Vespers on the Sunday of Forgiveness (Sunday of Cheese Fare) which inaugurates the Great Fast — the penitential period leading to Holy Pascha, the Bright Resurrection of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. At the end of the service, the Rite of Mutual Forgiveness — at which all the assembled ask one another in turn for reconciliation, so that all may enter the period of preparation that is the Lenten Spring in harmony. In Ukrainian and English.
Great Penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete: 5th Week of the Great Fast. (UA•EN)
Text of the Great Penitential Canon of our Father among the Saints, Andrew of Crete, the Jerusalemite as read at Orthros on the 5th Week of the Great Forty-day Fast. In Ukrainian and English.
Passia: or the Divine Suffering of Christ (UA•EN)
The Lenten service of Passia — or the Divine Suffering of Christ, with readings and hymns of Holy and Great Week — a sobering reminder to the Faithful of the twilight of our Lenten journey — before the joyous dawn which heralds Christ’s Resurrection. In Ukrainian and English.
Holy and Great Friday Orthros with the Reading of the 12 Passion Gospels [Abridged]. (UA•EN)
The text of the service of Orthros on Holy and Great Friday (served Thursday evening) with the reading of the 12 Passion Gospels, describing the betrayal, suffering and crucifixion of our Lord, God and Saviour, Jesus Christ. In Ukrainian and English.
Vesperal Stichera from the Small Octoechos. (UA•EN)
Vesperal Stichera at “Lord, I have cried” and of the Aposticha for the Octoechos Tones (Tones 1-8). From the “Small Octoechos” for Resurrectional (Sunday) services — the most ancient part of the weekly cycle of 8 Tones. In Ukrainian and English.