Prayers and Services

Prayer is the breath of the Christian life. Here we gather the daily prayers of the Orthodox Churches, from the morning and evening prayers to the prayers before meals and before Holy Communion, together with the texts of the principal liturgical services for reading in church or at home.

The prayers are translated from the Greek and Slavonic texts of the Horologion, the Euchologion and the Book of Needs. They may be read addressing God in the traditional form, "Thou," or in the contemporary form, "You." Our choice is remembered on every prayer page. The Psalms are given in the Septuagint, in the public-domain LXX2012 translation.