NOW AVAILABLE!

• The Second Edition of the Deacon's Service book, expanded and revised!
• The most complete Deacon's Service book.
• Contains more rites and hymns that were not published in the first edition, to cover all occasions throughout the Coptic year.
• Contains more Verses of the Bells and Doxologies for all feasts and fasts than previously published.
• Contains more spiritual, historical and theological explanations of the rites.
• Contains an appendix explaining the rites and spirituality of the Church readings throughout the Coptic year, as well as a more complete explanation of the Coptic Calendar.
• Contains corrections of the first edition's formatting, as well as spelling and grammar corrections of the rites and hymns based on research of manuscripts, opinions of Coptic scholars, and as transcribed from oral tradition.
• Implements all liturgical decisions made by the Holy Synod through the year 2007.

  Second Edition Features:

• 1306 pages, with hardcover.
• Coptic, Arabic, and Arabic-Coptic texts.
• Arabic and English table of contents, titles, and page numbers.
• Contains corrections made to the rite of the Feasts of the Cross based on the Holy Synod's decisions, and linguistic corrections to the hymns of the Glorification.
• Contains rites and hymns not published in the first edition, such as rite and hymns of the Kneeling Prayers, the Sanctification of the Holy Chrism, the Jars, the Maymar (Orations), and the 29th day of every Coptic month.