The Great Book of Needs: Expanded and Supplemented, Volume I (Biblia.com)

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The first volume of The Great Book of Needs contains services associated with the Sacraments, or Mysteries of the Christian life, including Baptism, Chrismation, Repentance (Confession), the Eucharist, Holy Matrimony, Holy Oil (Unction), Ordination, the Blessing of Waters, and Monastic Tonsure.

The following directives, taken from Priest N. Sil’chenkov, Prakticheskoe Rukovodstvo pri otpravlenü Prikhodskikh Treb (Practical Handbook for the Administration of Parish Needs), Voronezh, 1888, (reprinted many times), are applicable even in modern times. Hence, they are printed here. Further notes, not found in the Handbook also have been added here, signified by square brackets “[ ]”). The Priest, upon approaching any Divine Service,

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