Daily Orthodox Resources

• Daily Scripture Readings
• Daily Life's of the Saints
• Daily Prayer 
  
• Ancient Faith Radio​ (Podcasts)
• ​50 Maxims to Live By
  
• Anthony Bloom's Beginning to Pray Book
  

New to Orthodoxy?

• 12 Things I wish I'd known:My First Visit to an Orthodox Church
• The Orthodox Faith Series​ - Fr. Tom Hopko
• Frequently Asked Questions About Orthodoxy
• What Orthodox Christians Believe​
• Metropolitan Anthony Bloom Lectures
• Orthodoxwiki

Additional Resources

• Akathist to St. Silouan
• Liturgical Resources from Diocese
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library​
• New Advent:​ Church Fathers

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• St. Vladimir's Seminary Press​and Bookstore​ 
• Ancient Faith Publishing 
• St. Tikhon's Bookstore & Press​ 

 Prayer of the Heart

• Way of the Pilgrim - Anon
  
• Beginning to Pray - Anthony Bloom
  
• Jesus Prayer - Lev Gillet & Kallistos Ware
  
• Orthodox Prayer Life: The Interior Way- Mathew the Poor
• John Butler (Eastern Mediator who came to Church)
• Eclectic Orthodoxy - Getting beyond god to God
  

Orthodox Ministries

• American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese (our diocese)
• Christ the Saviour Orthox Church Ottawa (our sister parish)
• Camp Nazareth (ACROD Summer Camp and Retreats)
  
• Orthodox School of Theology at Trinity College
• International Orthodox Christian Charities
• Orthodox Peace Fellowship
• FOCUS North America
• ​​Orthodox Christian Mission Center

Toronto Ministries

• St Hermoine's Toronto Lay Pastoral Visitation
• U of T Campus Orthodox Christian Fellowship
• Good Shepherd Ministry
• L'Arche
• ​Sisters for Life
• ​St Mary of Egypt Refuge
• St John the Compassionate Mission

Parishes with Close Relationship

• St Vincent Saskatoon
• St Marks Yorkton
• ​Holy Myrrhbearers Toronto

Praying at Home Resources

We would like to offer a few online resources and texts for you to use at home. These are not meant to replace the liturgical offices but to provide parishioners who are at home a way to stay connected to the prayers of the Church.

• General Intercession:: A template to pray for the Church and the world at home
• Daily Texts  You can access the daily service information if you would like to sing the hymns of the day/troparion or kontakion/readings of the day
• Daily Readings for each day 
• Akathist of Thanksgiving or the Akathist Glory to God for all things. It may be helpful for us to practice giving thanks to God in difficult times
  • ​You can listen to it here
• Typika (Readers Service)   Typika Service for Sunday if you are at home. You may also want to look at the previous link for the hymns and readings of the Sunday. You may be familiar with these melodies for the Typika antiphon:
  • Beatitudes
  • Psalm 102
  • Psalm 145
• ​Vespers Resources:​  All music and text needed to follow along with vespers
  • Vespers Text
  • Come Let us Worship
  • ​Blessed is the Man
  • Gladsome Light
  • Lord Now Let your Servant
• Lent
  • Akathist to the Theotokos text for Fridays of Lent: If you are at home you can pray the verses read by the priest along with the Canon​
    • Akathist Music
    • O Champion Leader
    • O Pure and Virgin Mother ... (Agmi Parthene)
  • Great Canon for the Fifth Week of Lent (St Mary of Egypt) f you are at home, replace the litanies (prayers) with Lord Have Mercy x 12 
    • Service Text
    • Life of St Mary of Egypt: A valuable example of a saint who has experience with social isolation and is a model for never losing hope in the mercy of God
    • Canon and Responses
  • The Lenten Triodion, the guide book for Lent
• Holy Week Music
  • Palm sunday
    • Matins Text 
    • Antiphons,  Topar, 2nd Troparion, Kontakion
  • Jerusalem Matins
    • Service Text
    • Music
      • Lamentations Text
      • Lamentations- 1 (Music)
      • Lamentations - 2 (Music)
      • Lamentations - 3 (Music)
• Pascha
  • Matins Text
  • Matins Book with Music
  • Liturgy Text
  • Agape Vespers​ Text Here
  • Ascension Vespers Text
  • Pentecostarian (Daily Hymns for Pascha thru Pentecost)