Great Horologion (2 Volume Set)
Great Horologion (2 Volume Set)
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Translated from the Greek by the Holy Transfiguration Monastery. Revised Second Edition, 2020.
Hard-cover binding, 2-color printing. 7-1/2 x 12 inches.
Volume 1: 392 pages
Volume 2: 432 pages
In church or at home, The Great Horologion (or Book of Hours) is indispensable for the divine services.
- The Daily Cycle of Services: their structure and fixed hymns and prayers
- Over 500 concise accounts of Saints' Lives, including Dismissal Hymns and Kontakia
- Comprehensive alphabetical index of over 4500 Saints, with dates for their Feasts
- Large format for easy reading in church
- Printed in black and red throughout on acid-free paper
- Supplicatory Canons, Akathists, the Eclogarion, and more
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Production and printing are up to the monastery's usual standard. The translation will please those who prefer an older, more poetic style. This despite the occasional barbarism and non-native turn of phrase.
It is a pity, though understandable, that the volumes are not sold separately. As is explained in the Preface, the contents of Volume One are mostly available in the Monastery's pocket-sized Book of Hours, which for home use will suit most people.
Personally, it is Volume Two (Menologion and Index of saints)
that I value most.
Sticking to monastic practice, Volume One contains Vespers and Compline but no Prayers before Sleep such as the ordinary Christian would be accustomed to. For these, they would need to purchase the Jordanville Prayer Book, for example, even though
the English of this volume is at times far from satisfactory or idiomatic. As my spiritual Father, the late Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware), said to me, there is too much jargon spreading in Orthodox texts when
translated into English.