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The library contains the prayers, services, and patristic writings our diocese has prepared for the faithful — all in English, all made with care. A subscription opens the whole collection to you for a year and supports the work of producing it.

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What the Library Contains

Prayers and Services. Prayers, akathists, and services for feast days and saints. Original True Orthodox works and translations in English arranged for use at home or wherever you are.

Writings of the Holy Fathers. Translations of patristic texts — homilies, treatises, and letters — preserving the voice of the Fathers in clear modern English.

Lives of the Saints. Accounts of ancient martyrs, monastic saints, and new confessors of the faith.

Audio Recordings

Many of the library entries include a spoken audio recording, read by Hieromonk Tikhon. You can listen at home, at work, on the road, while walking, or wherever you may be.

Latest Additions to the Library

  • Homily on the Entry of the Theotokos Into the Temple (St. Tarasius of Constantinople)

    Translated from the original Greek text in the Great Synaxaristes of Konstantinos Ch. Doukakes (Vol. 10; Athens: A. Kollaraki & N. Triantafyllou, 1895). Homily of Saint Tarasius, Archbishop of Constantinople, on the Entry of the Theotokos Bright and wondrous is the present festival, and one that stirs up the desire of feast-lovers unto psalmody: the…

  • Synaxaristes (Nov 21): The Entry of Our All-Blessed Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary

    Translated from the original Greek text in the Great Synaxaristes of Konstantinos Ch. Doukakes (Vol. 10; Athens: A. Kollaraki & N. Triantafyllou, 1895). Celebrated November 21 Apolytikion (Tone IV) Today is the prelude of the good pleasure of God, and the proclamation of the salvation of men: inside the Temple of God, the Virgin is…

  • Canon to the Holy Prophet Jeremias

    Tone 8 Ode 1 Irmos: Having passed through the waters as on dry land, and escaped the wickedness of Egypt, Israel cried aloud: Let us sing unto our Deliverer and God. Refrain: Holy Prophet Jeremiah, pray to God for us. Before thou wast fashioned, thou wast foreknown and sanctified from thy mother’s womb, and anointed…

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