§ Occasion № ii · Lent & Pascha
Companions for
the Great Fast.
From Forgiveness Sunday to the empty tomb, the Great Fast asks for fewer things, kept closer at hand. These are the prayer books, psalters, and calendars that have steadied that walk for our readers.
§ The shelves we draw from
A bundle is
several shelves.
Each occasion is a small library, not a single shelf. Open the shelves that fit the giving and leave the rest in print for next year.
- № 01
Prayer Books
For the Hours, the Great Canon of St. Andrew, and the prayers said before and after the long services.
Coming to print - № 02
Psalters
The Psalter as it is read in Lent - twice through, in the kathismata of the week.
Coming to print - № 03
Bible
An Orthodox Study Bible or Septuagint for the long readings of Holy Week.
Open shelf · 4 titles - № 04
Calendar
The day-by-day calendar with the fasting rule for each day of the Fast.
Open shelf · 1 title - № 05
Books
Patristic readings, sermons, and meditations for the Fast and the Forty Days after Pascha.
Open shelf · 14 titles
§ The bundle
Read once. Prayed every year.
Titles drawn from the shelves above - set in print to be kept open through the long services of Holy Week.
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§ Other occasions
Or, step into
a different week.
The library is shelved one way; the giving is shelved another. These are the bundles we are asked for, year after year.
№ i
For a nameday, or a friend's.
Gifts for your nameday or a friend's - saint cards, calendars, and small icons for the patron on the icon corner.
№ iii
Chrismation, baptism, and after.
Gifts for the godchild - at chrismation, at baptism, and in the years after. Children's prayer books, small icons, baptism crosses, and the first calendar of saints.
№ iv
Prayer books, psalters, small icons.
For the bedside - prayer books, psalters, small icons, and prayer ropes kept on the table by the bed for evening and morning prayer.
§ Beyond the bundle
The tradition these gifts come from.
Lives of the saints
Meet the saints
The lives behind the icons, calendars, and books we print.
ExploreThe atlas
Orthodox countries
How the faith is lived and kept across the Christian world.
ExploreThe Journal
Read the Journal
Essays on feasts, fasting, and the rhythm of the Church year.
ExploreEvery morning
Mobile & web apps
Carry the daily rhythm on iPhone and iPad or continue in the web app.
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