Daily prayers
The Prayer Rule
Orthodox Christians keep a simple daily rule: morning prayers on rising, the day’s readings, and evening prayers before sleep. The prayers are the Church’s own — repeated until they become the heart’s. Keep the rule you can keep with attention, and grow it with your priest’s blessing.
Morning PrayersPrayers to be said on rising, following the order of the Church's daily morning office (the Nocturns) as given in G. V. Shann's Euchology of 1891, with the primer's thanksgiving on rising. Names of the departed may be inserted in the final commemoration.→Evening PrayersPrayers before sleep, drawn in their order from the Great and Little Compline in G. V. Shann's Euchology of 1891 — the Church's evening offices from which the private evening rule is taken. Names of the living may be inserted in the intercession at the end.→Prayers at MealsThe graces said before and after eating, as printed among the Daily Prayers of the official Russian Primer of the Holy Synod, in the public-domain English translation of R. W. Blackmore (1845).→The Brief Prayer Rule of St Seraphim of SarovSt Seraphim of Sarov (1759–1833) gave this short rule to those whose labours or infirmity kept them from longer prayers: the Lord's Prayer three times, 'O Theotokos and Virgin, rejoice' three times, and the Creed once, said on rising, at midday, and before sleep. The texts below are taken verbatim from G. V. Shann's public-domain translation of 1891, where the second prayer is rendered 'Hail! Virgin Mother of God'.→
Texts from public-domain translations, cited on each page · the day’s readings live on Worship of the Day · set your personal rule with your priest’s guidance.