Great Lent and Pascha - Orthodox Christian homilies, catechesis, prayers, lectionary, resources

Lenten Meditations
Sundays Approaching Great Lent
    Publican and the Pharisee
    The Sunday of the Prodigal Son
    The Sunday of the Last Judgment
    The Sunday Of Forgiveness
Days during Great Lent and Holy Week
    The First Week of Great Lent - Clean Week
      Clean Monday
        The Great Canon
      Clean Tuesday
        The Great Canon As Said on Clean Tuesday
      Clean Wednesday
        The Great Canon As Said on Clean Wednesday
      Clean Thursday
        The Great Canon As Said on Clean Thursday
    First Sunday of Great Lent
    Second Sunday of Great Lent
    Third Sunday of Great Lent - the Precious Cross
    Fourth Sunday of Great Lent
    Fifth Sunday of Great Lent - St Mary of Egypt
    Lazarus Saturday
    Palm Sunday
    Holy Thursday
    Holy Friday
    Holy Saturday
    Pascha
Catechesis
Lenten Lectionary
Prayers and Services commonly or exclusively used in Great Lent
    The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete
      As chanted on Monday of the first Week
      As chanted on Tuesday of the first Week
      As chanted on Wednesday of the first Week
      As chanted on Thursday of the first Week
      As chanted on Thursday of the Fifth Week
Hierarchal Lenten Epistles
Hierarchal Paschal Epistles
Fasting
Rubrics, Typicon
Miscellaneous Articles
Stories
VERY Serious!

The First Week of Great Lent - Clean Monday

An Anthem for Great Lent and all of Life.

Clean Wednesday

Meditation on Psalm 10, the Prokeimenon, in the Sixth Hour

The First Week of Great Lent - Clean Friday

THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR OUR UNREPENTANT HEARTS

1st Sunday before Great Lent (Word DOC format)

Sunday Of Zacchaeus
1 Tim:4-9-15, Luke 19:1-10
1999

1st Sunday before Great Lent (HTML format)

Sunday Of Zacchaeus
2001

1st Sunday before Great Lent (Word DOC format)

Zacchaeus Sunday
2002

1st Sunday before Great Lent (mp3 format)

Sunday Of Zaccheaus
2007

2nd Sunday before Great Lent (Word DOC format)

Sunday Of The Publican And Pharisee
1999

Publican and the Pharisee

2nd Sunday before Great Lent (mp3 format)

The Publican And Pharisee
2007

Questions about the Publican and the Pharisee

The Sunday of the Prodigal Son

3rd Sunday before Great Lent (Word DOC format)

Sunday Of The Prodigal Son
1997

3rd Sunday before Great Lent (mp3 format)

The Prodigal Son
2007

Sunday of the Prodigal Son

S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers

The Sunday of the Last Judgment

4th Sunday before Great Lent (mp3 format)

Sunday Of The Last Judgment Meatfare
2007

Synaxarion for the Sunday of the Last Judgment

Meatfare Sunday

Prayer on the Sunday of the Last Judgment

Meatfare Week, Meatfare Saturday and the Commemoration of the Departed

S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers

Sunday of Meatfare or of the Last Judgment

S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers

The Sunday Of Forgiveness

5th Sunday before Great Lent (Word DOC format)

Sunday Of Forgiveness
1999

5th Sunday before Great Lent (mp3 format)

Forgiveness Sunday And Cheesefare Sunday
2007

Synaxarion of Forgiveness Sunday

Saturday before Cheesefare

Commemoration of the Ascetics
S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers

Cheesefare Sunday

S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers

Thoughts At The Threshold Of The Holy Great Lenten Fast And The Prayer Of The Publican

Archbishop Averky Of Syracuse

Questions and answers concerning Forgiveness Sunday

The Desert Fathers on Fasting

The First Week of Great Lent - Clean Week

Clean Monday

The Great Canon

As Said on Clean Monday, suitable for printing, in large print with Rubrics in Red, and the parts of the choir and reader clearly marked.
PDF Format

Clean Tuesday

The Great Canon As Said on Clean Tuesday

Clean Wednesday

Meditation on Psalm 10, the Prokeimenon, in the Sixth Hour

The Lord is righteous and hath loved righteousness; upon uprightness hath His countenance looked.

The Great Canon As Said on Clean Wednesday

Clean Thursday

The Great Canon As Said on Clean Thursday

First Sunday of Great Lent

1st Sunday of Great Lent (HTML format)

Before Zacchaeus
2002
Also in Format: Word DOC

1st Sunday of Great Lent (HTML format)

Triumph Orthodoxy Come And See
2002

1st Sunday of Great Lent (mp3 format)

Triumph Of Orthodoxy
2004

1st Sunday of Great Lent (mp3 format)

Triumph Orthodoxy
2004

1st Sunday of Great Lent (mp3 format)

Triumph Of Orthodoxy
2007

Homily of Holy New Hieromartyr Tikhon, Metropolitan of Moscow

Sunday of Orthodoxy, 1903

The Sunday of Orthodoxy

A Sermon by Archbishop Averky - 1971

Prayer on the First Sunday Great Lent

The Word "Anathema" and it's meaning - by Saint John Maximovitch

What is an Anathema? - by Bishop Theophan the Recluse

by +ARCHBISHOP AVERKY of Syracuse and Holy Trinity Monastery

What is Orthodoxy?

By Archbishop Averky of Syracuse and Holy Trinity Monastery

What is Ecumenism

by Fr John Moses

Second Sunday of Great Lent

2nd Sunday of Great Lent (RTF format)

2002

2nd Sunday of Great Lent (HTML format)

Before Publican And Pharisee
2002

2nd Sunday of Great Lent (Word DOC format)

Healing Of The Paralytic
2002

2nd Sunday of Great Lent (HTML format)

Paralytic
2002 Also in Format: DOC

2nd Sunday of Great Lent (mp3 format)

Paralytic
2004

2nd Sunday of Great Lent (mp3 format)

Saint Gregory Palamas
2007

Synaxarion for the Second Sunday of Great Lent

St. Gregory Palamas

Pearls from St Gregory Palamas

Gleanings from the Fathers concerning the Paralytic

The Gospel read on this Sunday

The Second Week of Great Lent

S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers

Third Sunday of Great Lent - the Precious Cross

3rd Sunday of Great Lent (Word DOC format)

1999

3rd Sunday of Great Lent (HTML format)

Holy Cross
2001 Also in Format: DOC

3rd Sunday of Great Lent (HTML format)

Before Prodigal Son
2002

3rd Sunday of Great Lent (HTML format)

Holy Cross
2002 Also in Format: RTF or DOC

3rd Sunday of Great Lent (Русская версия PDF format)

Holy Cross
2004 Also in Format: Русская версия RTF or MP3

3rd Sunday of Great Lent (Adobe PDF format)

Holy Cross Rus
2004
Also in Format: Word DOC Also in Format: DOC

3rd Sunday of Great Lent (mp3 format)

Veneration Of The Holy Cross
2004

3rd Sunday of Great Lent (mp3 format)

The Veneration Of The Holy Cross
2007

Synaxarion for the Third Sunday of Great Lent

The Precious Cross

Questions about the Sunday of the Cross

Prayers for Sunday of the Holy Cross (3rd Sunday of Lent)

Gleanings from the Holy Fathers about the Cross

An Explanation of the Russian Orthodox Three-Bar Cross

From the Church of the Nativity, Erie PA

Why do we wear a cross?

St John Maximovitch on The Exaltation of the Precious Cross

Explanation of the Cross Which we Wear about the Shoulders on a Cord.

Fourth Sunday of Great Lent

4th Sunday of Great Lent (Word DOC format)

1999

4th Sunday of Great Lent (HTML format)

Demoniac Boy
2001 Also in Format: DOC

4th Sunday of Great Lent (mp3 format)

Before Last Judgement
2004

4th Sunday of Great Lent (mp3 format)

Demoniac Boy
2004

4th Sunday of Great Lent (mp3 format)

Saint John Climacus
2007

St John Climacus and the Ladder of Divine Ascent

A Sermon by Blessed Metroplitan Philaret

Prayer for the 4th Sunday of Lent

The Fourth Week of Great Lent

S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers

Fifth Sunday of Great Lent - St Mary of Egypt

5th Sunday of Great Lent (Word DOC format)

1999

5th Sunday of Great Lent (HTML format)

Before Forgiveness Sunday
2002

5th Sunday of Great Lent (HTML format)

Mary Of Egypt
2002 Also in Format: DOC

5th Sunday of Great Lent (mp3 format)

Mary Of Egypt
2004

5th Sunday of Great Lent (mp3 format)

Saint Mary Of Egypt
2007

Synaxarion for the Fifth Sunday of Great Lent

St Mary of Egypt

Questions about St. Mary of Egypt

The Life of our Holy Mother Mary of Egypt - From The Great Canon, the Work of Saint Andrew of Crete

Synaxarion - Fifth Sunday of Great Lent - St Mary of Egypt

Prayer on the Fifth Sunday of Great Lent

Lazarus Saturday

Thoughts on Lazarus Saturday - the resurrection of Lazarus, the four days dead, of Bethany

Questions about Lazarus Saturday

Kontakion On the Raising of Lazarus

by St. Romanos the Melodist

Prayer on the Saturday of the Righteous Lazarus

Palm Sunday

Holy Thursday

A Trebnic Prayer on Holy Thursday

Holy Friday

Holy Saturday

The Resurrection makes the Impossible Possible!
2002 Also in MP3

Pascha

See our PASCHA Page for the materials concerning Holy Feast.

Orthodox Christian Fasting, by St John Chrysostom

The Desert Fathers on Fasting

Orthodox Christianity: Questions about fasting

Orthodox Christianity: Questions about the Great Canon of St Andrew

Questions about the last week of Great Lent

10 Questions about Lenten Services - Volume 1

Questions about holy week

Questions about Jesus' appearances after the resurrection.

Questions about Bright week

Lenten Lectionary for the First Week of Great Lent

Also in Format PDF

Lenten Lectionary for the Second Week of Great Lent

Also in Format PDF

Lenten Lectionary for the Third Week of Great Lent

Also in Format PDF

Lenten Lectionary for the Fourth Week of Great Lent

Also in Format PDF

Lenten Lectionary for the Fifth Week of Great Lent

Also in Format PDF

Lenten Lectionary for the Sixth Week of Great Lent

Also in Format PDF

Lenten Lectionary for Holy Week

Also in Format PDF

Great Compline in HTML, PDF and RTF formats

The Prayer of St Ephraim the Syrian - PDF format

Four prayers on a page, suitable to print out, and cut into quarters.
Page of English, Page 2 of Slavonic
The perfect size to fit in a prayer book. OTHER FORMATS rtf

Prayers at the beginning of the Holy Forty Day Fast

Prayer to the Lord Jesus Christ, Crucified
The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete

As chanted on Monday of the first Week

As chanted on Tuesday of the first Week

As chanted on Wednesday of the first Week

As chanted on Thursday of the first Week

As chanted on Thursday of the Fifth Week

RTF Format or PDF Format

The Life of our Holy Mother Mary of Egypt - From The Great Canon, the Work of Saint Andrew of Crete

AN ADDRESS of the Most Reverend Tikhon, Bishop of the Aleutian Islands and of North America on Orthodoxy Sunday

Great Lenten Epistle 2000 - His Eminence, Metropolitan Vitaly

Paschal Epistle of Saint John Maximovitch 1956

Paschal Epistle of Metropolitan Anastasy - 1940

Paschal Epistle of Blessed Metropolitan Philaret - 1982

Paschal Epistle of Metropolitan Vitaly 1997

Paschal Epistle of Metropolitan Vitaly 1998

Metropolitan Cyprian's Paschal Encyclical - 1999

The Serbian Orthodox Church to Her Spiritual Children at Pascha, 1999

Great Lent Fasting Typicon according to the Orthodox Western Rite

Olive Oil Usage

Fasting and "Oil" days

Great Lent Fasting Typicon according to the Orthodox Western Rite

Dates of Great Lent and Pascha through 2010

Vespers on Wednesdays and Fridays of Great Lent when the Presanctified Liturgy is not served

The Order Of Divine Services Supplementary Texts

Additions to the Order of Divine Services published by St John of Kronstadt Press
This is a large PDF File with Two sections:
Supplement 1 - Lenten Services during the Lesser Fasts
Supplement 2 - The Saturday Requiem Service

Presanctified Liturgy question - Why is the curtain left half open?

Preparation for Great Lent

S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers

Common date for Pascha

An article detailing the efforts of Lutheran and Orthodox Ecumenists to have a common date for Pascha and commentary about some of the incredible things said in it.

by Anton Chekhov