The Tale of The Five Prayers
From the times of the Apostles, Christians of all ages, when entering upon a task, began it with prayer, and the end of it they also hallowed with prayerful thanksgiving to the Lord, in Whom we live and move and…

From the times of the Apostles, Christians of all ages, when entering upon a task, began it with prayer, and the end of it they also hallowed with prayerful thanksgiving to the Lord, in Whom we live and move and…
Dismissal Hymn. Troparion. Sung in Tone 4 Do Thou, O Sovereign Lady, by Thy joy-bestowing honorable Icon “Queen of All,” saves those who with fervent desire implore Thy grace; deliver from afflictions those who run to Thee; from all dangers do…
O most holy and blessed Mother of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ! We fall down in adoration of thee before thy holy wonder-working icon, keeping the memory of the wondrous sign of thine intervention, shown unto Novgorod the Great in…
O most holy Virgin, Mother of the Lord, the Highest; thou who art the Protectress and Defense of all that have recourse unto thee! Look down from thy holy height upon us sinners, who fall down before thy holy and miraculous…
The usual Trisagion Prayers and the Symbol of the Faith are followed by the prayers of the Rule of the Mother of God, in which an opening prayer indicates the meditation for the following decade of Rejoice, O Virgin Mother…
1. I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible; 2. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only-begotten, Begotten of the Father before…