Publisher of the Orthodox Pocket Calendars, the Divine Liturgy, and the forthcoming unabridged Ieratikon, Byzantine Design Works has been producing traditional Orthodox artwork and designs since 1996.
The Divine Liturgy Pew Book is the most complete bilingual Liturgy book to be printed. Featuring the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, this book also contains the audible petitions and responses for the Liturgy of St. Basil. It includes the complete Thanksgiving Prayers, Dismissal Hymns and Kontakia, Memorial Service, Service of the Typika and a Synaxarion. This complete Liturgy also includes the Great Fervent Supplication, the Catechumen Prayers and the Litanies of the Faithful (for those who would use them). This sewn leather hardbound book is of high quality, meant to withstand decades of use in the pews. It is printed in red and black and has a very attractive blue and gold foil cover.
The Divine Liturgy 2nd Edition Sample
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The main reason for the Second Edition of "The Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom" was the wealth of traditional liturgical music that is now available. The First Edition went to press a year before Saint Anthony's Monastery started their "Divine Music Project." Contemporaries such as Hieromonk Seraphim Dedes, Vassilis Hadjinicolaou, St. Anthony's Monastery and the Holy Transfiguration Monastery have made the rich beauty of Orthodox Hymnography available to the English speaking faithful. Rather than try to "reinvent the wheel" yet again with another set of translated hymns when such superior work is available, nor to have the faithful seek in yet another book for metered hymns, we chose to replace and add these hymns as necassary in our work. With their kind permission, we have included translations of the hymns of the Divine Liturgy, the Dismissal Hymns and Kontakia by Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Brookline, Massachussettes; Hieromonk Seraphim Dedes; and Saint Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery in Florence Arizona. In addition the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America's offical translation of the Nicene Creed has been included as well, along with a Festal Calendar (commonly known as the Synaxarion).
These New Orthodox Planners will be offered in wire-bound and loose-leaf formats, and sized to fit in most popular organizers such as Day-Runner, Day-Timer and FranklinConvey. They will be available in small (3 1/2 x 6 3/4), medium (5 1/2 x 8 1/2), and large (8 x 10) formats.*
*The final dimensions are subject to change.
The 2012 Pocket Calendars are dedicated to the memory of Saint John, the Author of the "Ladder of Divine Ascent."
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The ancient and Holy Greek Orthodox Monastery of Saint Katherine, Sinai, Egypt. Contemporary icon painted by Reader Vaslileios Tomaras.
The origins of this super-luminary of the Church are forever shrouded in mystery because of our holy Father's complete renunciation of the world. However, we do know that Saint John was born in the second half of the 6th century. The future Abbot of Sinai entered the monastery of his repentance at the age of sixteen, offering himself as a well-pleasing sacrifice to Christ our God. From the beginning he began conquering the passions and avoided the traps of the evil one through his extreme humility and total obedience to his spiritual father, Abba Martyrius. But his Elder did not tonsure him until he reached the age of twenty, after testing his humility as a novice for four years. On the day of his tonsure Abba Strategius predicted that John would "become one of the great lights of the world." Later Martyrius took his disciple and visited Abba John the Sabaite, a famous ascetic, who ignored Elder Martyrius and poured water on his disciple's feet. After their visit Abba John prophesied that the young disciple would be the future Abbot of Sinai. This prophecy was also repeated by Abba Anastasius the Sinaite. The disciple John passed the next nineteen years in the "blessed freedom" that total obedience brings. Following the repose of his tutor in Christ, he entered the "arena of solitude" by retreating to Tholas, a solitary place near the monastery church, where other hermits lived. Again, he did not do this under his own volition but on the recommendation of the holy Elder George Arsilaites, who instructed him in the hesychastic way. Thus, remaining under obedience, he continued his divine ascent, step by step, for the next forty years, continually subdueing his passions and attaining the heavenly virtues. John struggled to keep his virtues hidden, but when God judged that the time had come for him to edify others, he took in disciples. Like "a second Moses" he came out of the desert when the Lord later charged him to become the head of the "new Israel" which was the Monastery founded by the Emperor Justinian in 548, at the foot of Mt Sinai. On the day of his enthronement as the Abbot, with 600 pilgrims attending, the Prophet Moses was seen delegating instructions to the stewards. Later, Abba John, the Abbot of Raithou, having heard of the exemplary life of the monks of Sinai, entreated Saint John to explain how those struggling in the angelic life may be saved. St John wrote his treatise of thirty homilies in the form of a "Ladder" of thirty steps, on how one can progress from virtue to virtue. This "Ladder of Divine Ascent," for which St John is surnamed, has become the preeminent guide in the evangelical life, for both Orthodox laymen and monastics, putting the Gospel into practice. After having climbed this lofty ladder, and having reached the Heavens, St John reposed in the Lord at the age of eighty.
–Reader Vasileios Tomaras
The Orthodox Pocket Calendar is a month-at-a-glance calendar, which is great for keeping quick notes while also reminding you of important feast days and fasting periods. Conveniently sized, this high quality booklet fits in your pocket or purse and is printed in color. Offered in both Old and New Calendar versions, it also features civil observances, selected readings for important feast days, and inspirational and edifying quotes. A New Calendar Bilingual (Greek/English) format is also available.
The Orthodox Pocket Planner is a week-at-a-glance calendar, which is great for keeping quick notes while also reminding you of important feast days and fasting periods. Conveniently sized, this high quality booklet is double-loop wirebound for convenience and durability. It fits in your pocket or purse and is printed in color. Offered in both Old and New Calendar versions, it also features civil observances, selected readings for important feast days, and inspirational and edifying quotes.
The Unabridged Ieratikon is the most complete bilingual Ieratikon to be prepared. Based on the Ieratika of theApostolic Diakonia of the Church of Greeceand the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras, Holy Mountain of Athos, this Ieratikon will be offered in an easy to use multi-volume format. It will include the Divine Liturgies of Saints John Chrysostom, Basil the Great and the Presanctified Gifts, as well as all the different morning and evening services, the Deacon's Rubrics, the extra prayers, rubrics, con-celebrations, memorials and processions used throughout the year. A Diakonikon and an Archieratikon are also being prepared.
The Ieratikon will be offered in three volumes as follows:
Ieratikon Vol 1: Vespers Sample
