This user-friendly handbook includes not only the usual sequences and prayers of the day (midnight, morning, table prayers, evening, after-dinner), but also other prayer texts (greetings, supplications to the Theotokos and Christ), as well as prayers that do not exist in other prayer books, such as prayers for the lamp-lighter, prayers in case of earthquake, in case of war, in case of illness, in case of mourning, during a storm, before traveling by ship, at the beginning of the 24 hours, etc.

Contents
Preface 7
Introduction on prayer 11
Preliminary prayer 19
Midnight prayers daily 23
Sunday midnight prayers 39
Morning prayers 41
Resurrectional hymns 77
Hymns and kontakia of the week 85
Hymns of the saints 92
Morning and midday prayers 102
Table prayers 111
Hour 9 114
Prayers for the lamp-lighter 124
Evening prayers 131
Short after-dinner prayer 144
Great Lent prayers 161
Easter service 173
Greetings to the Theotokos 178
Small supplication 195
Great supplication 218
Divine Liturgy service 234
Canon to Jesus Christ 277
Prayer and fasting 290
Prayers for various occasions:
according to the 24 hours 300
at the beginning of the new year 303
supplication for salvation 304
before reading 304
resurrectional prayer 305
for the sick 306
another prayer for the sick 307
for heart diseases 309
for protection from demons 310
in case of mourning 312
before traveling by ship 312
in case of war 313
in case of earthquake threat 316
in case of storm 317
for the illness of animals 318