If it’s the one I got, then it’s OK in that it has a lot of the devotionals and services, although the translations aren’t my cup of tea. It also has facing Slavonic, which is what I use it for.
I love the prayers in the Jordanville Prayer Book! I have prayed the Canon of Repentance when preparing for Confession - it’s a wonderful help to it.
This is the main prayer book I use, I think you’ll love it. Highly recommended! The jordanville prayer book is all English. It has a great set of morning and evening prayers(quite a few), prayers during the day, Akathists and Canons, and the text of the Divine Liturgy.
That icon (should say icon-style work, so as not to offend those who are true icon-writers) is actually by a Roman Catholic priest, Fr William McNichols SJ. Love his work!
I know, I know. :holds up hands - palms outward:GASPan Icon??? EAST?
I don’t have anything against the east, nor do I consider eastern catholics second class citizens - it’s just that my Latin self is still a little sceptic I guess. 
Something to work on.Take in a Divine Liturgy, it will do the work itself!I know, I know. :holds up hands - palms outward:
Catholig
I’d like to, but there are only two close by - one is a Byzantine Catholic Church that has the Divine Liturgy in English, and the other is a Maronite Church that my mother feels uncomfortable around. To foreign, & middle eastern.Take in a Divine Liturgy, it will do the work itself!
Check out the Byzantine Catholic Church if you can! I totally understand the cultural issue… foreign and middle eastern… like Christ Himself… I honestly do understand; I’m Polish and German. I’ve often thought to myself how it’s funny that we follow what essentially began as a middle-eastern faith, but it still can feel uncomfortable for us of European ancestry to immerse ourselves in that culture! So it goes, right? I think you’ll love the Byzantine Liturgy if you get the chance to go! It’s Greek in origin, no more foreign that Roman, right?I’d like to, but there are only two close by - one is a Byzantine Catholic Church that has the Divine Liturgy in English, and the other is a Maronite Church that my mother feels uncomfortable around. To foreign, & middle eastern.
Catholig
No. In the Ruthenian liturgy it is (or was, as I remember it) translated as “Christians of the True Faith” which is essentially what Orthodox Christians means in that context.
Well, it is an Orthodox prayer book, after all
. As a former Catholic (Byzantine), I would say there is nothing wrong with you using it. Just skip any prayers you either don’t like or don’t feel comfortable with. Or…you may certainly pray for Orthodox Christians–we all can use all the prayers we can get! Or…you could substitute in your private prayer the words “Catholic Christians”. I’m sure Catholics are in as much need of your prayers as us unworthy Orthodox !
Only if you are a “western heretic”.I will admit, the ‘western heretics’ comment does seem like a bit of an unnecessary potshot.
)EAST Roman, of course!Check out the Byzantine Catholic Church if you can! I totally understand the cultural issue… foreign and middle eastern… like Christ Himself… I honestly do understand; I’m Polish and German. I’ve often thought to myself how it’s funny that we follow what essentially began as a middle-eastern faith, but it still can feel uncomfortable for us of European ancestry to immerse ourselves in that culture! So it goes, right? I think you’ll love the Byzantine Liturgy if you get the chance to go! It’s Greek in origin, no more foreign that Roman, right?
lol, I’m making my way (more slowly than my impatient self would like) to Orthodoxy, so I hope I’m not one of those.Only if you are a “western heretic”.
(Just kidding!!!
On a more serious note, however, this is how many Orthodox view non-Orthodox Christians, rightly or wrongly, fairly or not. But then, much has been said about all of that on other threads.
Jeff
Still however, that comment just seems like an excuse to call people heretics. It could just as well have said “we don’t kneel and beat our breast” and have ended there. Oh well!