Military Resources

Daily Scripture Readings and Lives of the Saints

Saints, Feasts, and Readings for 7/20/2017 The Glorious Prophet Elias (Elijah) St. James' Universal Letter 5:10-20 Luke 4:22-30 The Glorious Prophet Elias (Elijah); Synaxis of the Russians who were perfected in France: Protopresbyter Alexios Mednedkov, Presbyter Dimitrii Klepinin, Mother Maria Skobtsova, her son Yuri Skobtsov, and Ilia Fondaminskii; Mother Maria Skobtsova, New-Martyr of France Visit the Online Chapel for more daily readings, hymns, a monthly calendar of saints and feasts, and more.

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Orthodox Military New Testament and Psalms

Click here to learn more and order copies of the New Testament and Psalms for Orthodox Christians: Military Edition.

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Help our Military Chaplains

Help our Orthodox Chaplains minister to the thousands of Orthodox service men and women in the Armed Forces. Let us know who our Orthodox Christian service men and women are locatd by downloading this form and mailing it back to the SCOBA office.

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Free Audio Bible for our Service Men and Women

Thanks to our dynamic partnership with the American Bible Society, we will soon be offering our service men and women with a FREE audio Bible. We are deeply grateful to the American Bible Society for granting us the licensing rights to make the audio Bible available. Soon, you will be able to play the audio of the New Testament right here from your web browser as well as download it onto your iPod or MP3 player while deployed. Stay tuned to this space; we hope to have the audio New Testament online by June 1.

Children's Bible Reader 50% Discount for Military Families

SCOBA, the Orthodox Marketplace, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and the American Bible Society are partnering to offer the acclaimed Children's Bible Reader to military families with children at a 50% discount for a limited time. Just fill out this survey to receive your discount coupon.

Activities and Online Games for Military Families

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Department of Internet Ministries is offering a free interactive games site for military families at: http://games.goarch.org.

Daily Prayers Now Available

We've added a new section: Prayers for Various Occasions so that our military service men and women can have access to: Morning and evening prayers, mealtime prayers, and the prayer for before and after receiving Holy Communion. The prayers, which are also included in the Orthodox Military New Testament and Psalms have been graciously provided by His Eminence Metropolitan Isaiah of Denver, who is himself a veteran of the U.S. Marines.

Liturgical Resources for Military Personnel

Fr. Jerome Cwiklinski (CAPT, USN) has graciously provided a number of resources for Orthodox military personnel.

For lay readers to use when no priest or chaplain is available:

• Practical texts

For chaplains, or those deployed where no Orthodox Christian Chaplain is available:

• Variable Portions of the Divine Liturgy
• Variable Portions of the Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts