Prepublication Announcement of ✠ THE ORTHODOX MISSAL ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE WESTERN RITE OF THE HOLY ORTHODOX CHURCH ƒ • Compiled by Abbot David (Colburn) & St. Mary the Virgin, Our Lady of Walsingham, Orthodox Skete, 889 Walker Road, Dayton, Tennessee, 37321 USA Above: A sample missal—not the actual missal. Web: <http://olwtn.org/> Email: <
[email protected]> • Published with the blessing of The Most Reverend Metropolitan Hilarion, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, & The Very Reverend Mitered Archpriest Mark Rowe, Vicar General, ROCOR Western Rite Communities FEATURES & SPECIFICATIONS: CONTENTS: • Hardbound, library binding with gold-foil stamping on cover Calendar (Universal & Supplemental) & spine, interior pages printed on 60 lb. paper. • App. 844, fully indexed pages; 2 ikons in color. Prayers before & after Liturgy (Mass) • Text in 2 colors (black text & red italicized rubrics). Vesting Prayers of the Sacred Ministers • Prayers & Biblical Readings pointed for chanting. Offices of Preparation • Ordinary & Propers for: Proper of Seasons—Part I The Restored WR Liturgy (Mass) of St. Gregory the Great. Selected Blessings The Emended WR English Liturgy (Mass). Te Deum Laudamus The Rite of the WR Presanctified Liturgy (Mass). • Outline of the Dry (Sicca) Liturgy when no priest is present. Preliminary Rites of the Liturgies • Enlarged Calendar of the Universal Church with many The Liturgy (Mass) of St. Gregory optional, supplemental Saint’s days & other Commemora- The English Liturgy (Mass) tions of the Orthodox Church & the Russian Church in The Rite of the Presanctified Liturgy (Mass) particular (including wonder-working ikons of Our Lady). The Officium Missae, or Missa Sicca • Prefaces with music notated in solemn chant (for the Mass of St.