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“Stretching out Thine hands upon the cross, O Lord, Thou hast killed the invisible Amalek and rescued thy people: therefore we sing the praises of Thy power.” Great Lent, the Second Week, Friday Matins, Ode V of the Canon How wonderful the matins canon is! Any canon, but especially, it seems, those during Great Lent,… Continue reading 2nd Week of Great Lent – FRIDAY Matins. The Invisible Amalek.

    And it came to pass in the year in which king Ozias died, [that] I saw the Lord sitting on a high and exalted throne, and the house was full of his glory. 2. And seraphs stood round about him: each one had six wings: and with two they covered [their] face, and… Continue reading 2nd Week of Great Lent – Thursday. The Sixth Hour. The Holy Eucharist and hearing the voice of God

And Lamech said … I have slain a man to the wounding of myself, and a stripling to my own bruising. Sevenfold vengeance shall be taken for Cain: but for Lamech seventy times sevenfold. (Great Lent, the Second Week, Wednesday, Vespers: Genesis 4:23-24, from the selection: Genesis 4:16-26)   What are we to glean from… Continue reading 2nd Week of Great Lent – Wednesday Vespers. The Good and Bad example of Lamech

“And Cain said to Abel his brother, Let us go out into the plain; and it came to pass that when they were in the plain Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him.” Tuesday in the Second Week of Great Lent – At Vespers, Gen 4:8-15   Today the scripture gives us… Continue reading 2nd Week of Great Lent – TUESDAY. Evil Jealousy and false pretence.

“1. And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and brought forth Cain and said I have gained a man through God. 2. And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3. And it was so after some time that… Continue reading 2nd Week of Great Lent – MONDAY. The First and most deadly sin of Cain

The Lord himself shall enter into judgment with the elders of the people, and with their rulers: but why have ye set my vineyard on fire, and why is the spoil of the poor in your houses? Friday in the First Week – At the Sixth Hour – Is 3:1-14 Why is the spoil of… Continue reading Great Lent, the first week, Clean Friday. The Spoil of the Poor – Is 3:1-14

For we are strangers on the earth, as were all our fathers; keep our short life without sin, O our Savior, and have mercy on us, as the lover of mankind. The Troparion of the Prophecy, 1st Tone, Clean Tuesday, At the Sixth Hour. For we are strangers on the earth.   This world is… Continue reading Clean Tuesday. Strangers.