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Book of Needs of the Holy Orthodox Church

THE DESIGNATION, WITH HOLY GOD, OF THE CHAPTERS CONTAINED IN THIS TREBNIK.

G. V. (George Vincent) Shann translation

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I. Prayers on the first day after a child is born to a woman 1

II. Prayer at the signing of a child when it receiveth a name on the eighth day after its birth 4

III. Prayers for a parturient woman after forty days 6

IV. Prayer for a woman when she hath aborted a child 11

V. Prayers at the making of a catechumen 13

VI. The order of holy baptism 24

And a prayer for holy baptism, that is, how briefly to baptize a child because of fear of death 41

Concerning how it behoveth a spiritual person to behave himself 44

VII. The order concerning confession 46

VIII. Prayer on the releasing from prohibition 51

IX. The order that is used at betrothals 53

X. The order of the coronation 58

XI. Prayer at the taking off of the crowns on the eighth day 72

XII. The order for a second marriage 73

XIII. The order of the sanctification of the holy oil 83

XIV. The office when in extreme urgency occasion ariseth to give communion to a sick person 123

XV. Prayerful canon to our Lord Jesus Christ and to the most holy God-bearing Mother of the Lord at the parting of the soul from the body of every right-believer 128

And the prayer at the departure of a soul 136

XVI. The mortuary order over lay bodies 138

XVII. The ordinance that is observed concerning the carrying forth of them that fall asleep in holy Pascha, and in all the bright week 164

XVIII. The mortuary order over a departed priest 169

XIX. The office of the burial of a babe 208

XX. The order of the lesser sanctification of water 225

XXI. The order of the sanctification of water on the holy Theophany 240

XXIV. Prayer at the blessing of flesh-meat 255

XXV. Prayer at the blessing of cheese and eggs 256

XXVI. Prayer at the partaking of grapes on the vith day of august 256

XXVII. Prayer for them that gather first-fruits 257

XXVIII. Prayer at the laying of the foundation of a house 258

XXIX. Prayer when one entereth into a new house 258

XXXIII. Prayer for one that purposeth to go on a journey 259

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