The book contains the rites of admission to the Orthodox Church of non-Christians and Christians of other confessions:

a) through the Sacrament of Baptism (pagans, Jews, Mohammedans);

b) through the Sacrament of Chrismation (Lutherans, non-anointed Catholics and Calvinists); c) through the Sacrament of Repentance (those who have been baptized and chrismated, but have fallen away from the Orthodox Church and have been led into schism).

The book is an excerpt from the Great Trebnik of some chapters (97, 98, 103-106) with several additional articles. The rite was published as a separate book in 1757 and then reprinted in 1845 and 1858.

The sequence of moleben

The book contains prayers and rites borrowed from the Great Trebnik: prayer hymns "against the adversary" (ch. 91), "in the time of no rain" and "in the time of ignorance" (chs. 80 and 81). The book also contains services that are not found in the Trebnik: thanksgiving for the receipt of a petition and for every blessing of God, the rite of blessing for a journey to those who want to sail on the waters, the rite of blessing a ship of war, a military banner, a new ship, digging a well and blessing it.

3. The Sacraments and Their Purposes

The word "Sacrament" (Greek, cibhpruѵ) has several meanings. First, the Holy Scriptures assimilate to him a deep, hidden thought or action (1 Cor. 13:2). Secondly, it denotes the special action of God's Providence on believers, by virtue of which the invisible grace of God is communicated to them through a visible medium (1 Cor.

4, 1). This can be said of all the Sacraments of the Church.

In the Sacraments, God serves the salvation of man, and man in return is imbued with a determination to serve God and people. This service of God brings to man the holy, heavenly content of life, so that he may become a partaker of the mysteries of the Kingdom of God and understand God's will for himself.

The sacrament, in the words of Priest Pavel Florensky, "is here and there, and the valley and the mountain,"9 that is, it is both earthly in its external, visible side, and heavenly in its spiritual and grace-filled content. The Sacrament is those sections of a person's life path where he frees life from the vanity of life in order to receive into his heart the new, holy content of life that comes from the abodes of the Heavenly Father.

Heavenly life among the things and events surrounding man declares itself by the light of the Gospel truths, for "God is Light" (1 John 1:5). With this Light He reveals Himself in the Sacraments of the Church, from which the earthly is enlightened and receives a new, holy fulfillment from the Heavenly Light.

In the Sacraments, the Kingdom of Heaven draws so close to man that by its grace-filled power the highest measure of sanctification is communicated to the very sources of our nature through visible sacraments. In each Sacrament, a special gift of Divine grace is poured out on a person.

Thus, in the Sacrament of Baptism, grace is communicated, cleansing from sin and sanctifying a person. To do this, he must be taught the truths of the faith, condemn his sins and errors in repentance, and then stand before Christ the Savior, in order to be born "of water and of the Spirit" (John 3:5) and become a member of the Church of Christ and an heir of the Kingdom of God. Through the love and mercy of Christ, the one who receives the Sacrament, immersing himself three times in the holy waters of the font of Baptism "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit," is mysteriously and effectively cleansed of sins and "justified and sanctified" is led into a new life, as a holy member of the Body of Christ – the Church. In this Sacrament, all the powers of man are sanctified: mind, feelings, and will, so that each of them and all together serve unity with Christ, accept and reproduce the essence of the new life, and become participants in it.