About

A prayer book for the browser: the whole morning rule, the commemoration of the living and the dead, the Short Hours, the prayers at the table, Compline, the whole evening rule, the Three Canons, the canon and prayers before Holy Communion and the thanksgiving after it, and the whole Psalter in twenty kathismata.

The pages are set the way the printed books set them - black and red, an ornament at the head, a drop cap opening each prayer.

There is no account to make and nothing to install. Once you have opened a page it stays available with the signal off, and on a phone home screen it opens like an app.

The type is EB Garamond.

The ornaments come from the Orthodox Illustration Project. They are vector drawings, so they stay sharp at any size and invert cleanly for the night palette.

Six of them sit in rotation at the head of the page, and the date picks which one (not chance - everyone reading on a given day sees the same ornament). It turns over at midnight.

The Psalter follows the twenty kathismata of the Slavonic use. The index points to the kathisma appointed for the day of the month - the first on the first, through the twentieth, then beginning again.

Each kathisma closes with the prayers appointed after it: the troparia in their tone, and the prayer proper to that kathisma.

The opening capital of each prayer drops two lines, the ordinary size of an initial in the printed books.

Day and Night follow your system setting until you pick one, and the site remembers.

There are no analytics, and nothing here is fetched from another server. Every font, script, and image comes from this domain.

Set and maintained by Benjamin Meadows. Corrections are welcome, through thebenmeadows.com.

The Typika, for days when no priest is available.

The readings and the saints commemorated each day, on the calendar of the Orthodox Church in America.

More to come (this is a work in progress).