Two books for daily reading form the foundational texts for both personal prayer and common worship. These are an Orthodox prayer book and an Orthodox psalter. Publications with the translations in use at St. Anthony are listed below.

• Antiochian Archdiocese, A Pocket Prayer Book for Orthodox Christians
• Holy Transfiguration Monastery, The Psalter: According to the Seventy (and Pocket Edition)
• The Holy Bible: New Testament (NKJV, RSV, OSB, or similar)
• An Orthodox Calendar with Saints, Readings, Fasts and Feasts

Orthodox Christians often pray with icons of Jesus Christ and Mary the mother of God.  Small dual icons called diptychs are available which are portable and inexpensive.

Read the prayers and hymns of the Church, especially the services of vespers and orthros. Listen and engage with the weekly Homilies, you may always ask questions of the Clergy.

Books can be purchased from the parish bookstore, Ancient Faith Media or any other retailer. Most titles also have used copies available for purchase online.

Melitios Webber, Bread & Water, Wine & Oil: An Orthodox Christian Experience of God

In modern terms, Archimandrite Meletios provides an introduction to the mystical experience of God as taught in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Timothy Ware, The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity

A standard English language introduction to the history and tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church for the last 60 years.

Patrick O’Grady, Come Let Us Worship: A Practical Guide to the Divine Liturgy for Orthodox Laity

A practical and easy-to-read guide to the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way

An introduction to orthodox doctrine and worship as a way of living - the way it is actually taught - rather than the more referential format found in his other famous book, The Orthodox Church.

John McGuckin, The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to its History, Doctrine, and Spiritual Culture

A longer and newer introduction to Eastern Orthodoxy that appeals to those for whom Ware’s Orthodox Church is too brief on topics of interest.

Alexander Schmemman, For the Life of the World

A seminal work from arguably the most important liturgical theologian of the 20th century.  Not a simple work, but one that expresses the role of Orthodox sacramental worship as central and critical to who we are as God’s creation.

• Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese: http://www.antiochian.org
• Greek Orthodox Archdiocese:  http://www.goarch.org
• Orthodox Church in America: http://www.oca.org
• Ancient Faith Media http://www.ancientfaith.com/

The Greek Archdiocese and the OCA have particularly full libraries of articles on orthodoxy

Online Media. Podcasts and books about Orthodoxy.  A department of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America. Not all podcasts and books are of equal value, but generally the media here is trouble free.

Fr. Thomas Fitzgerald, Treasures of Orthodoxy

https://www.goarch.org/-/teachings-of-the-orthodox-church

Fr. Thomas Hopko, The Orthodox Faith

https://www.oca.org/orthodoxy/the-orthodox-faith

Podcast: Fr. Thomas Hopko, Speaking the Truth in Love

https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/hopko/