Liturgics How to do 9th Hour and Vespers at home

[Roosh]

Does anyone do these services at home? I want to try it, especially on days I can't go to church for Vespers. I know there are many books you need to put together a service for a specific day, so I'm looking for a basic start. This is what I found so far:

The Ninth Hour as a Reader Service

Vespers as a Reader Service

And is there a way to know the Bible reading for Vespers?

 

[Muscovite]

I think "Christian Mystery: The Order of Divine Services with Commentary" might be helpful. I have it, and it looks like it has all the Bible readings for Vespers.

You can see the details, preview some pages and buy it here https://mission-shop.com/product/christian-mystery/

 

[An0dyne]

For those in the Western Church, Divinum Officium is a wonderful site containing the ordinary and propers for the Divine Office (Matins through Compline, including Mass) in the pre-Tridentine Monastic, Tridentine, and subsequent iterations.

Unfortunately, this probably won’t be of help to @Roosh and our Eastern brethren. Perhaps there is an Eastern equivalent? I will have to investigate.

 

[An0dyne]

Liturgical Texts – Holy Mother of God Orthodox Church

orthodoxaustin.org

I am not an expert on the Eastern Rite but this site seems to update with the Propers for the week. Seems not to be daily though, but if it’s anything like the Western Rite there tends to be repetition during the week patterned after the Lord’s Day, especially in the non-Festival half of the Church Year.

 

[Hermetic Seal]

When this book is released in the near future you'll have everything you need to do the services in a single volume you can easily hold in your hand without needing a stand. Only downside is that it's a more "contemporary" style of English than you'd hear in a ROCOR service or in the Jordanville prayer book, but I suspect it's pretty easy to substitute "thee"s and "thou"s on the fly.

But really, just having the Jordanville Horologion will get you 90%+ of the way there. Most of the other stuff (such as the Octoechoes and Menaion) covers music, so for doing a reader service at home the Horologion will certainly suffice. (I got one a while back but haven't had much opportunity to actually use it yet.) You can find the variable content from the Octoechos and Menaion for Saturday vigils from the link An0dyne posted above.

See also: Fr. John Whiteford's Building A Liturgical Library article.

 

[Providence76]

I often use the prayers found here, but talk to your priest:

Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America

www.antiochian.org

 

[Roosh]

I often use the prayers found here, but talk to your priest:

Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America

www.antiochian.org

ROCOR is on the old calendar, so I don't think I can use this resource.