As part of our broader collection of liturgical resources, this page contains a collection of resources for Orthodox clergy, many of which are downloadable / printable, to complement the materials found in the standard Service Books of the Church with additional rites and services, or texts specific to the practice of our Diocese.
Litanies, petitions and prayers within the Divine Services:
- Petitions for peace in the Holy Land and in Ukraine, to be inserted in the Litany of Fervent Supplication; together with the Priest’s prayer for Peace in the Holy Land and Ukraine, formatted to insert in a service book (Slavonic and English) (updated December 2024)
- Priest’s prayer for peace in the Holy Land and Ukrainе (A4 size) (Slavonic and English) (updated December 2024)
- ‘Save, O God, Thy people…’: Long and short forms of the petition used at the litany of the Litya, as well as after the Gospel reading in Matins, together with the full commemoration prayer said by the Priest at the Litya (Slavonic and English) (updated August 2023)
- Petitions for the commemoration of the Monarchy in the United Kingdom (Slavonic and English) (updated October 2022)
Special services:
- Sunday of Orthodoxy: Rite of the Triumph of Orthodoxy for parish use, without a Bishop presiding (Slavonic and English) (updated March 2023)
- Service of All Saints of the Helvetic (Swiss) Lands, the work of Bishop Ambrose of Geneva (Slavonic; also available in French)
- Moleben and Akathist to the Wonderworking Kursk-root Icon of the Theotokos (available in parallel Slavonic-English and Slavonic-French editions) (Updated February 2022)
- Private Bedtime Prayers (English). Prayers to be said immediately before sleep; printable version that can be distributed to parishioners.
- Canon to St Varus, for the salvation of the non-baptised (English; a Slavonic edition is found here). This may be prayed privately by the Priest or by family members, or the Priest may pray it together with family members before the icons in their home.
Liturgical-rubrical resources:
- Guidance for the celebration of the Orthodox wedding service (English) (updated 2023). Liturgical and pastoral instruction for Priests in preparing a couple for marriage, and the correct performance of the service itself. Also available in Russian.
- Supplement to the Order of Services volume: Rubrics for the Divine Services during the Lesser Fasts (English).
- Charts explaining the means of singing the Matins Canons during Great Lent, with the inclusion of the Biblical Odes and verses from the Triodion and Menaia (English) (updated 2021)
- Archpriest Serafim Gan’s grammatical guidance for correct commemorations in Church Slavonic (Russian-Slavonic) (updated March 2017)
- The French edition of the Great Book of Needs (Grand Euchologe Français) (French)
Other resources:
- Bishop Irenei’s ‘Six Days of Creation’ Prosphora recipe, with illustrated instructions on preparation (English) (updated 2021)
Resources for managing Clergy details and communications:
- Parish details updating form: Use this on-line form to update your parish’s or clergymen’s details for the web site directory and published Spisok of the ROCOR (e.g. contacts, web / social media pages, Parish Council members, photographs, etc.).
- Telegram groups for clergy communications: The Diocese operates dedicated Telegram groups for its clergy: the All Diocesan Clergy group is for all Priests and Deacons, who are required to join it; as well as the Europe Region Clergy and British Isles Region Clergy which are subsets of the All Clergy group, to address more local topics. There is also an opt-in Subdeacons & Readers group for all those in minor orders. To be added to any of these groups, please contact the Diocesan Chancellery.
- Public Telegram channel: The Diocese also operates a very active Telegram public channel, by which it conveys news, photographs, announcements and other materials of interest. It is required that all Clergy subscribe to this channel as well as be joined to the appropriate groups.
