How the Church Service is Organized

«How the Church Service is Organized» — a book by Maria Krasovitskaya that simply and accessibly explains the logic, symbols, sequence, and significance of Orthodox services. When attending a church service, a person most often feels its grandeur and depth but does not fully understand its meaning. In order for the service to become an integral part of a believer's life, it is necessary to understand the structure of the church service, to grasp the significance of the words and actions of the clergy heard in the temple. The book reveals the wise logic of the church Statute and the beauty of the Church's prayer. It discusses the system of church timekeeping: the daily, weekly, and annual liturgical cycles that create a unique essence for each day.

It helps to comprehend the «vast» all-night vigil and to feel the place of the liturgy in liturgical time – the place where the eternal manifests in the temporal.