This product is a ticket - and effectively a donation - for my fundraising raffle for Saint Porphyrios Orthodox Church, a Church of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which was attacked on Thursday, 19 October during the current Israeli assault on Gaza, resulting in the deaths of 18 of the refugees who had been sheltering in the Church's buildings.
In this effort to stand in solidarity with the people of Gaza (and Palestine more generally) at this terrible time, I will donate all the proceeds of the raffle to Saint Porphyrios Church. I will split the funds between The Holy Orthodox Order of Saint George the Great Martyr and the International Orthodox Christian Charities, which are the only two organisations I have been able to find that are channeling support to the Church. The only caveat is that if I hear back from St Porphyrios Church that they prefer another arrangement I will follow their wishes.
The raffle will run until Saturday, 4 November, and I will announce more details about the draw the day before on my Instagram and Facebook pages. You can purchase as many tickets as you like, with each additional ticket increasing your chances.
The raffle is for the Psalter and Book of the Gospels shown in the photos, together with the slip case shown. I will cover the cost of international shipping with FedEx for the winner.
The two books contain the late Father Lazarus Moore's translations of the Psalter and the Gospels. These hand-sized (A6) text blocks have been hand-stitched and case bound in veg-tanned calfskin that I have dyed and tooled myself. They have hand-stitched headbands, printed marbled endpages, speckled edges, one ribbon marker each, and "HOLY PSALTER" and "HOLY GOSPELS" gold foiled on the spine.
The books are digitally printed on 90 gsm Munken Pure paper in archival-quality pigment ink. The text of the Psalter has been adapted to render the forms of address in more contemporary English (You/Your instead of Thee/Thou) and some minor changes have been made in line arrangement. It uses UK spelling, capitalises divine pronouns, and follows the Septuagint numbering of the Psalms, while the Gospels use US spelling. It should be noted that chapters 23 and 24 of St Luke's Gospel could not be found and have been replaced with text from the World English Bible.
Details of Psalter:
Approximate size, metric: 159 x 116 x 25 mm.
Approximate size, imperial: 6.2 x 4.6 x 1 inches.
Total pages: 288 pages of text, plus 4 extra.
Details of Gospels:
Approximate size, metric: 159 x 116 x 25 mm.
Approximate size, imperial: 6.2 x 4.6 x 1 inches.
Total pages: 293 pages of text, plus 7 extra.