Category: Great Lent

  In that day the root of Jesse, who standeth for an ensign of the people, him the Gentiles shall beseech, and his sepulchre shall be glorious. Great Lent, the Third Week, Thursday, The Sixth Hour, Isaiah 11:10, from the selection: Isaiah 11:10-12:2       The “root of Jesse” is none other than our… Continue reading 3rd Week of Great Lent. Thursday. “The Ensign of the people…” Sixth Hour, Isaiah 11:10-12:2

“As we continue in the joyful celebration of the fast, we cry aloud: keep us all in peace, O Lord, deliver us from every snare of the enemy, and in Thy surpassing love count us worthy to venerate with love Thy precious cross, through which thou grantest to the inhabited world Thy mercy, O Thou… Continue reading 3rd Week of Great Lent – Wednesday. “Joyful celebration of the fast”

Wisdom has built a house for herself, and set up seven pillars. 2. She has killed her beasts; she has mingled her wine in a bowl, and prepared her table. 3. She has sent forth her servants, calling with a loud proclamation to the feast, saying, 4. Who so is foolish, let him turn aside… Continue reading 3rd Week of Great Lent – TUESDAY. Vespers. Wisdom has built a house for herself, and set up seven pillars.

  With the fire of abstinence let us all burn up the thorns of the passions that assault us, and with streams of tears let us put out the flame that shall never be quenched; and let us cry aloud to Him Who shall come to judge the whole earth: O Savior and all-merciful Lord,… Continue reading 3rd Week of Great Lent – Monday. Matins. With the fire of abstinence…

“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