Michael Monos

The Services of Holy and Great Week: Celebrant Edition Michael Monos

Publisher Marketing: The services of Holy Week of the Orthodox Church in Greek and English. Contains: Holy Sunday evening (Nymphios), Holy Monday evening, Holy Tuesday evening, Holy Wednesday morning (Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts), the Service of Holy Oil (afternoon) and evening (Orthros of Holy Thursday), Holy Thursday morning (Vesperal Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great) and evening (The Passion), Holy Friday morning (Great Hours), Holy Friday afternoon (Unnailing), Holy Friday evening (Lamentations w/ Greek phonetics), Holy Saturday morning (Vesperal Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great), Holy Saturday evening (The Vigil of Pascha) and Holy Saturday afternoon (Vespers of Love). The texts of the services are uncut, and include the priestly prayers missing from other texts currently available. Appendix contains the Service of Preparation for Holy Communion, the Prayers of Thanksgiving after Holy Communion, and the entire Lamentations for Holy Friday evening (uncut with verses). The text also includes Gospel readings for Paschal Vespers (Love) in seventeen languages, as well as the Paschal greeting in 76 languages. Translation by Arch. Ephrem Lash, modified by Rev. Fr. Michael Monos. English text metered and set to traditional Byzantine melodies by David Melling. Paschal Canon adapted to traditional melodies by EIKONA.