Old Orthodox Prayer Book

Old Orthodox Prayer BookThe third edition of the Old Orthodox Prayer Book contains the most common prayers for the layman in both English and Slavonic: Morning and Evening prayers, prayers during the day, the main prayers of the Divine Services from Vespers to Liturgy; Canons to our Lord, the Mother of God and the Guardian Angel; Canons for the sick, for the departed; the Canon and Hours of Pascha; Prayers before and after Holy Communion. Also included is an instructional

September 14 - The Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross

and four Great Feasts: The Meeting of the Lord

Glorious and All-praised Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian

Nicholas icon by noted iconographer

The icon is mounted on a wooden board

Usually the preface is of a rhetorical nature and the concluding passage is a moral exhortation

but also on other Fathers

the 4th Indiction

main body of panel - 4 great icons of the Theotokos

This version of the Vladimir icon is enameled throughout the entire icon

it is a common pious practice to replace them with prayer on the Lestovka

Major universal Orthodox feasts designated with encircled red cross