An Anthem for Great Lent and all of Life. Wash yourselves, and ye shall be clean; put away the wicked ways from your souls before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17. learn to do well; diligently seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, consider the fatherless, and plead for the widow. 18. Come then, and… Continue reading The First Week of Great Lent – Clean Monday. Reading of the Sixth Hour
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Sunday Of Forgiveness 2009. “Now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.”
LISTEN NOW If the "LISTEN NOW" link does not work, copy this URL into your browser: http://www.orthodox.net/sermons/great-lent-sunday-before-great-lent-05_2009-03-01+sunday-of-forgiveness.m3u If this file does not work for you, try the direct link to the actual mp3 file:http://www.orthodox.net/sermons/great-lent-sunday-before-great-lent-05_2009-03-01+sunday-of-forgiveness.mp3 RSS feed of Sunday and some weekday homilies:http://feeds.feedburner.com/OrthodoxChristianSermonsOnTheGospelsEpistlesAndOtherTopics Archive of Audio and text homilies:http://www.orthodox.net/sermons Romans 13:11-14:4 11 And that, knowing the… Continue reading Sunday Of Forgiveness 2009. “Now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.”
The Sunday Of Forgiveness.We are going to do violence now.
In the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen.[1] Today is the Sunday of Forgiveness, and it is also the day we enter Great Lent. After we pray the Vespers service of Forgiveness early this afternoon, we will then be in the Holy Fast. Why is… Continue reading The Sunday Of Forgiveness.We are going to do violence now.
Something to “give up” for Great Lent.
When I was a boy, the great emphasis on Great Lent (Roman Catholic style) was to "give up" something. They have no common concept of fasting during Great Lent as the Orthodox do, so everybody picked something to give up. Ridiculous things were given up, like "candy" or "coffee", or even smoking. Unfortunately, this approach has… Continue reading Something to “give up” for Great Lent.
Cheesefare Week: “kind of” like being in Great Lent
"Serving Suggestion " for Wednesday night dinner. Cheesefare week, the last full week before Great Lent begins, is an “in between” week liturgically in the Orthodox Church. Each day is “kind of like” Great Lent and “kind of like” outside of Great Lent. This is to provide a transition into Great Lent. Everything we do… Continue reading Cheesefare Week: “kind of” like being in Great Lent
O Lord and Master of my life… a few words about the Prayer of St Ephrem.
The “Prayer of St Ephrem” is ubiquitous during Great Lent, and is used in all weekday services, and in prayers at home. This prayer is much like the “Our Father”, in the following way. When the disciples asked the Lord to teach them to pray, He told them to… Continue reading O Lord and Master of my life… a few words about the Prayer of St Ephrem.
By the Waters of Babylon, The Great Fast, Our Exile
by Fr.Seraphim (Rose) March 1965 http://www.orthodox.net/greatlent/by-the-waters-of-babylon-the-great-fast-our-exile.html This weekend, at the Sunday Vigil of the Prodigal Son, we will sing Psalm 135.[1] "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion". In these words of the Lenten psalm, we… Continue reading By the Waters of Babylon, The Great Fast, Our Exile
Sunday of the Last Judgment – Meatfare 2009. Audio Homily.
LISTEN NOW Matthew 25:31-46 31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep… Continue reading Sunday of the Last Judgment – Meatfare 2009. Audio Homily.
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Sunday Of The Prodigal Son, 2009. The most important part of the parable.
LISTEN NOW Other Homilies on this Sunday: 3rd Sunday before Great Lent (HTML format) Sunday Of The Prodigal Son 1997 Also in Format: Word DOC 3rd Sunday before Great Lent (mp3 format) The Prodigal Son 2007 3rd Sunday before Great Lent (mp3 format) Sunday Of The Prodigal Son The most important part of… Continue reading Sunday Of The Prodigal Son, 2009. The most important part of the parable.