BOOK OF NEEDS
OF THE
HOLY ORTHODOX CHURCH
WITH
AN APPENDIX
CONTAINING OFFICES FOR THE
LAYING ON OF HANDS.
Done into English
BY
G. V. SHANN.
LONDON:
DAVID NUTT, 270 STRAND.
1894.
TO
HIS EXCELLENCY
C.P. POBEDONOSTZEFF,
CHIEF-PROCURATOR OF
THE MOST HOLY GOVERNING SYNOD
OF RUSSIA,
THESE TRANSLATIONS
ARE INSCRIBED.
The following pages contain a translationwith some omissions, of the Slavonic servicebook entitled, Trébnik, or, Book of Needs, socalled, because it contains the provision forthat which is spiritually needed by a Christianfrom the cradle to the grave.
To this is added, as an appendix, a translationof a portion of the service book entitled,Chinóvnik archieréiskaho svyashtshennosloujéniya,or, Office book of the bishop’s holy service, namely,that pertaining to the laying on of hands.[1]
The original used for the translation of thefirst named work is an edition published inMoscow in the year 1882, and that for theportion of the second, one published in thesame city in the year 1890.
The omissions, made under competent advice,in the translation of Trébnik are as follows,
I. The entire of the epistle and gospellessons, these being indicated by their initialand concluding words only, with one exception,namely, in the office of the sanctification ofwater on the festival of the Epiphany, wherethe lessons from the prophecy being written atlength those of the epistle and gospel are madeto correspond.
II. Questions asked of penitents in the confessional,and instructions concerning the impositionof penance, as explained in foot-notesat pages 49 and 51.
III. Some prayers for various occasionswhich are not of general interest (chaptersxxii, xxiii, xxx, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiv, xxxv,xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix, xl, and xli).
IV. Extracts from the Nomocanon (chap.xlii), many of which refer to obsolete heathencustoms and habits, and all need the livingvoice of the pastors of the church for theirproper present application.
V. The Kalendar and the Paschal Tables(chapters xliii and xliv), these having beengiven in the translator’s former work, Euchology,published in Kidderminster in the year 1891.[2]
It should be understood that the originalsare books for the use of those who are conversantwith the order of the church service,and that, for t