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Prayers Before Holy Communion
The prayers the Church gives us to read before Holy Communion, chosen by Hapgood from the longer rule: prayers of St. Basil the Great, St. John Chrysostom, St. Symeon Metaphrastes, St. Symeon the New Theologian and St. John of Damascus.
Ask your priest which prayers to read before Communion. These are a good place to start.
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About this edition
From the Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church, translated and arranged by Isabel Florence Hapgood (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906). Our text was made from scans of the printed book and checked against three separate scans; if you spot a mistake, tell us in the server.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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