THE GREAT BOOK OF NEEDS

Expanded and Supplemented

VOLUME I

The Holy Mysteries

Translated from Church Slavonic with notes by

St. Tikhon’s Monastery

St. Tikhon’s Seminary Press

South Canaan, Pennsylvania

2000

The Great Book of Needs, Expanded and Supplemented,

Volume I The Holy Mysteries

Translation and notes ©Copyright 1998 by St. Tikhon’s Seminary Press.

All rights reserved.

Second Printing 2000.

Published with the blessing of

His Eminence, the Most Reverend HERMAN,

Archbishop of Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania

by

St. Tikhon’s Seminary Press

Box 130

South Canaan, Pennsylvania 18459

ISBN 1-878997-56-4

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Russka i︠a︡ pravoslavna i︠a︡ t︠s︡erkov’.

[Trebnik. English]

The Great Book of Needs: expanded and supplemented / translated from Church Slavonic with notes by St. Tikhon’s Monastery.

p. cm.

Planned 3. vols.

Contents: v. 1. The holy mysteries -- v. 2. The sanctification of the temple and other ecclesiastical and liturgical blessings.

ISBN 1-878997-56-4 (vol. 1). ISBN 1-878997-57-2 (vol. 2).

1. Russka i︠a︡ pravoslavna i︠a︡ t︠s︡erkov’--Liturgy--Texts. 2. Orthodox Eastern Church--Liturgy--Texts. 3. Occasional services--Orthodox Eastern Church--Texts. I. Title.

BX375.T73R87 1998

264'.019--dc21

98-21715

CIP

TABLE OF CONTENTS

VOLUME I

The Holy Mysteries

Preface

General Instructions to the Priest on Parish Service of Needs

A Note on Terminology

Introductory Prayers

I. ENTRY INTO THE CHURCH

1. PRAYERS ON THE FIRST DAY AFTER A WOMAN HAS GIVEN BIRTH TO A CHILD

2. PRAYER AT THE NAMING OF A CHILD ON THE EIGHTH DAY OF BIRTH

3. PRAYERS FOR A WOMAN ON THE FORTIETH DAY OF CHILDBIRTH

4. PRAYER FOR A WOMAN WHEN SHE HAS MISCARRIED/ABORTED AN INFANT

5. PRAYERS AT THE MAKING OF A CATECHUMEN

6. THE OFFICE OF HOLY BAPTISM

7. THE OFFICE OF HOLY ANOINTING (CHRISMATION)

8. EXHORTATION BY THE PRIEST TO THE SPONSOR AFTER THE BAPTISM OF AN INFANT

9. THE ABLUTION AND TONSURE ON THE EIGHTH DAY

10. A PRAYER FOR HOLY BAPTISM, THAT IS, HOW BRIEFLY TO BAPTIZE AN INFANT WHEN THERE IS FEAR OF DEATH

11. COMPLETION BY THE PRIEST OF THE OFFICE OF HOLY BAPTISM IF IT WAS PERFORMED BY A LAYMAN

12. THE OFFICE FOR RECEIVING INTO THE ORTHODOX CHURCH SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE NOT PREVIOUSLY BEEN ORTHODOX, BUT, FROM INFANCY HAVE BEEN REARED IN HERESY, YET RECEIVED VALID BAPTISM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHILE REJECTING THE REST OF THE HOLY MYSTERIES AND CHURCH CUSTOMS, AND HOLDING OTHER OPINIONS CONTRARY TO THE ORTHODOX CHURCH

13. THE OFFICE FOR RECEIVING THOSE COMING TO THE ORTHODOX CHURCH FROM THE ARMENIAN CONFESSION (Also used for those coming from: Other Non-Chalcedonian (Coptic, Jacobite, Ethiopian, Indian); Nestorian; Roman-Latin; Lutheran; Reformed)

14. THE OFFICE FOR ANOINTING WITH CHRISM SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE COME TO THE ORTHODOX FAITH AND HAVE UNITED THEMSELVES WITH THE ORTHODOX-CATHOLIC CHURCH

15. THE OFFICE FOR RECEIVING THOSE COMING TO OUR HOLY CHURCH FROM THE JEWISH FAITH (Also used for those ...