The Orthodox Liturgy

The Divine Liturgies of S. John Chrysostom and S. Basil the Great and the Divine Office of the Presanctified Gifts together with the Ordering of the Holy and Divine Liturgy, the Office of Preparation for the Holy Communion and the Prayers of Thanksgiving after the Holy Communion.

The present translations have been made from the Old Church Slavonic service-books (in consultation with the corresponding Greek texts). Save for a few instances where the original requires the Septuagint Version of the Old Testament, they look to the language of the Authorized King James Version of the Bibile or the almost contemporary Book of Common Prayer—liturgical English at its noblest. Spelling, punctuation and the use of capital letters likewise conform. Of ‘an innumerable maltitude’ of possible references those suggested in the footnotes are either direct quotations or they give the source of a word or phrase having the same weight and gravity, and offering comparable associations.