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The Horologion

A beautiful and fitting Prayer Book for clergy and laity alike! The perfect gift for Religion teachers, Society of Publicans, vocation candidates, youth ministers, or parish council members. Deepen your own spirituality by giving yourself this gift of prayer. Or if you are in charge of a parish icon store or parish office, make the Horologion available to all your parishioners. What better way to encourage people to pray the Divine Office daily!

Featuring:

The entire Divine Office in all its forms, Lenten and non-Lenten—Vespers, Compline, Mesonyktikon, Orthros, Little Hours, and Typica.

Each service presented in its complete form—no need to turn back and forth.

All Coutourier rubrics for Priest and Deacon in red.

Priest’s prayers for Vespers and Orthros

Music for Tones, Common Troparia, Hymns for Vespers and Orthros.

Genuine leather cover, hand sown, Bible paper, gilt edges with silk ribbons.


$39.50

Dear Father Deacon Lance,

Have the Melkites removed the commemoration of the victory of Tsar Peter the Great over the Kozak Hetman Mazeppa in the calendar in that horologion?

Kidding . . .

I'm going to buy that book, thank you for bringing it to our attention and thank you also for putting up with me for as long as you have . . .

Alex

I was checking out the other titles available from Sophia Press and saw that "Each service presented in its complete form—no need to turn back and forth."

How cool is that?

I can't believe it's only $39.50!

I got my copy. It's a beautiful book, and seems to be very well laid out. Usually Byzantine prayer books are almost incomprehensible, at least as regards what to do when. They usually presume one already knows how to do the service, and then are vague in the actual directions. Thus far I have found this book to be clear.

The typesetting is beautiful--I wish Ruthenia could borrow their typesetters for our books. But I have one complaint, that there is a substantial sheet of corrigenda. I hope that they make a second edition, since it is too beautiful of a book to require a cardboard set of corrections.

Thumbs up.

Pseudo-Athanasius,

I been wondering about this new publication and have a few questions maybe you can answer.

Do the Melkites use the same Liturgical Calendar as the BCC? Did you notice inclusive language? Do the psalms seem "censored" like they do in the Liturgy of the Hours? Do you know what version the psalms are?

Quick answers--I have to go to choir practice:

Yes, in large part. I'm sure there are different saints celebrated.

No. No inclusive language as far as I could tell.

No. Full Psalms.

I think the psalms are either Raya's septuagint translation or a revision of it.

Gotta go.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Pseudo-Athanasius!

The Psalms are largely the work of Baron De Vinck, which began when he and Archbishop Raya did selected Psalm translations for Byzantine Daily Worship, a great cornerstone in English translations of the Liturgy and Divine Praises, and still a must-have for the English liturgical library.

Basically this volume adopts an approach like the St. Tikhon's Horologion, which includes the full text for each service so one does not have to flip constantly to for differents bits of variants of the same services.

I was also a bit disappointed at all the errata; the Melkite volume does not have all of the variants and addenda that the St. Tikhon's Horologion has. The font size, typesetting, etc. in the St. Tikhon's (as in the Jordanville) are also more conducive to chanting under candlelight than this volume. The paper is thinner, and as I mentioned the font size quite a bit smaller in this Melkite edition relative to the other bigger Horologia (St. Tikhon's, Jordanville Unnabreviated, and HTM Mega Horologion).

Certainly a step in the right direction; some nice drawings; and I hope the second edition will address the errata.
FDD

Before I order this, it is in English, right???

Yes. If you have Byzantine Daily Worship it is in similar contemporary (but tasteful, non-inclusive) English. I personally think it is better English and more clear to follow than the New Skete Horologion.
FDD

Thanks. This sounds like exactly what I have been looking for.