Lenten Meditations
Sundays Approaching Great Lent
Days during Great Lent and Holy Week
Catechesis
Lenten Lectionary
Prayers and Services commonly or exclusively used in Great Lent
Hierarchal Lenten Epistles
Hierarchal Paschal Epistles
Fasting
Rubrics, Typicon
Miscellaneous Articles
Stories
VERY Serious!

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Lenten Meditations

• 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
• O Lord and Master of my life... The Prayer of St Ephrem explained.
• Other formats: WORD    PDF   

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Sundays Approaching Great Lent

• Sunday of Zacchaeus

• Homilies on the Sunday of Zacchaeus
  

  Publican and the Pharisee

• • Homilies on the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee
    
  • Questions about the Publican and the Pharisee

  The Sunday of the Prodigal Son

• • Homilies on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son
    
  • Sunday of the Prodigal Son
  • S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers

  The Sunday of the Last Judgment

• • Homilies on the Sunday of the Last Judgment (Meatfare)
    
  • 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

• • Homilies on the Sunday of Forgiveness (Cheesefare)
    
  • 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

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Days during Great Lent and Holy Week

• The First Week of Great Lent - Clean Week

• • The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete - a Short Explanation
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    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
      • RTF Format

    Clean Tuesday

  • • The Great Canon As Said on Clean Tuesday

    • • PDF Format
      • RTF Format

    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

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      • RTF Format

    Clean Thursday

  • • The Great Canon As Said on Clean Thursday

    • • PDF Format
      • RTF Format

  First Sunday of Great Lent

• • Homilies on the First Sunday of Great Lent - Sunday of Orthodoxy
    
  • 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
  • True Orthodoxy
  • 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

• • Homilies on the Second Sunday of Great Lent
    
  • Synaxarion for the Second Sunday of Great Lent
  • 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

• • Homilies on the Third Sunday of Great Lent
    
  • 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

• • Homilies on the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent
    
  • 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

• • Homilies on the Fifth Sunday of Great Lent
    
  • 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
  • Also in WORD format  
  • Lazarus Saturday - the resurrection is NOW (mp3)
  • 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

• Homilies on Palm Sunday
  

  Holy Thursday

• • A Trebnic Prayer on Holy Thursday

  Holy Friday

• Holy Friday
  at the Tomb
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  Holy Friday
  at the Tomb
  2002
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  Holy Saturday

• • Holy Saturday
  • The Resurrection makes the Impossible Possible!
    2002
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  Pascha

• • See our PASCHA Page for the materials concerning Holy Feast.

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Catechesis

• 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

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Lenten Lectionary

• Lenten Lectionary for all Six weeks of Great Lent and Holy Week.

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Prayers and Services commonly or exclusively used in Great Lent

• 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
• Service Of Supplication For the Conversion of Those Who Have Departed into Error. To be sung on the Sunday of Orthodoxy and on other needful occasions
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  The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete

• • The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete - a Short Explanation
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    As chanted on Monday of the first Week

  • • PDF Format
    • RTF Format

    As chanted on Tuesday of the first Week

  • • PDF Format
    • RTF Format

    As chanted on Wednesday of the first Week

  • • PDF Format
    • RTF Format

    As chanted on Thursday of the first Week

  • • PDF Format
    • RTF Format

    As chanted on Thursday of the Fifth Week

  • • HTML
    • PDF Format
    • RTF Format
    • The Life of our Holy Mother Mary of Egypt - From The Great Canon, the Work of Saint Andrew of Crete

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Hierarchal Lenten Epistles

• 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

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Hierarchal Paschal Epistles

• 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

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Fasting

• ON FASTING
• By the Waters of Babylon, The Great Fast, Our Exile
• Fr Seraphim Rose 1965
  Other formats: WORD PDF
• Fasting Rules
• Great Lent Fasting Typicon according to the Orthodox Western Rite
• Olive Oil Usage
• Fasting and "Oil" days

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Rubrics, Typicon

• 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

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Miscellaneous Articles

• 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.

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Stories

• THE BISHOP
• by Anton Chekhov

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VERY Serious!

• Irish Lent!