Services of Initiation

New Service Book

Released March, 2017 for use in the Antiochian Archdiocese of North America, by the Antiochian Orthodox Institute, LaVerne, CA
Compiled, translated and edited by VRev Michel Najim and the VRev Patrick B. O'Grady

Includes:

• Prayers for Mother and Newborn before Baptism
• Holy Baptism
• Chrismation
• First Holy Communion
• Reception of Converts
• Restoration of Formerly Lapsed
• Various Cases of Celebrating Baptism, on feast days and at natural bodies of water