Hymns, Liturgies, and Service Books of the Orthodox Church (9 vols.)

Building from John Mason Neale’s 1862 Hymns of the Eastern Church—which provided the only English versions of any Eastern hymns—this volume presents a collection of the Eastern Church’s sacred poetry in English, also including fragments from the earliest Greek Christian poets and Ephraim the Syrian.

Hymns and Poetry of the Eastern Church offers any student of hymnology a valuable resource for studying the worship of the Eastern Christian tradition.

Explore 46 Eastern hymns in English—42 appearing for the first time—translated from the Service Books. Providing a “substantial addition to our English Hymnody from Eastern sources,” this volume also includes introductory chapters on the history, sacraments, and worship of the Eastern Church to aid in study and understanding of the ancient tradition.

This volume, designed to be accessible by anyone just beginning liturgical studies, provides translations and notes on Eastern Offices, in the hopes of facilitating “the studies of those who desire to acquire some knowledge of the rites of the Eastern Church.” This English-language volume makes a valuable library addition for anyone seeking deeper understanding of the worship services of the Eastern Christian tradition.

Clearly presenting all the commonly used services in a practical way, this volume makes them accessible not only to clergy, but also to liturgical students and those who are unfamiliar to the Church. Compiler and translator Isabel Florence Hapgood uses the Old Church-Slavonic books of the Russian Church rather than the original Greek, to produce English-language versions of all the ordinarily required services. This volume makes a valuable library addition for anyone seeking deeper understanding of the worship services of the Eastern Christian tradition and the Russian Church in America.

This volume presents English translations of the Offices of the Orthodox Church, designed to help scholars and Christians of all backgrounds better understand this ancient church. Also included is a historical introduction, valuable for orienting the unfamiliar reader to the doctrines, rites, and religious life of the Eastern Church.

Published in 1876, this volume made available in English for the first time the “Primitive Liturgies” which were previously difficult to obtain in the original Greek, and impossible in English. The volume includes a brief introduction and translations of the liturgies of Mark, James, Clement, Chrysostom, Basil, and the Church of Malabar. Also included is an appendix that gives the formula of institution as they occur in every extant liturgy. This volume offers a valuable resource for studying the services of the Eastern Christian tradition.

This manual is a practical and accessible guide to the Divine Services of the Orthodox Church—covering everything from the appearance and arrangement of the church building, the clergy and their vestments, public worship and the cycle of services, special features of divine service for feast days and fast time, administration of the Sacraments, and books containing the Divine Service. For students of liturgy or anyone seeking to better understand the Orthodox Church, this volume provides a valuable resource on the intricacies of the ancient church.

This volume offers English translations of the East Syrian Daily Offices, along with helpful supplemental information to add context and depth to your study. Presenting texts not often accessible to English readers, this volume is a valuable resource for studying the services of the Eastern Christian tradition.

This brief volume provides an accessible guide to the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom as celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Designed to give a useful outline of the service rather than a complete translation of the liturgy, the text is “intended to help an English worshipper to learn quickly how to worship with his Eastern brethren.”