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Category: Great Lent
Great Lent, the first week, Clean Friday. The Spoil of the Poor – Is 3:1-14
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
Clean Tuesday. Strangers.
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.
The First Week of Great Lent – Clean Monday. Sixth Hour.
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. Sixth Hour.
Sunday Of Forgiveness 2009. “Now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.”
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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
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 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.
St John Chrysostom on true fasting. WORTHY TO BE READ during a fast free week!
This is a long quotation, but very profitable to read. It explains the purpose of fasting, the proper attitude towards it, its effects on our spiritual state, and how fasting not done in the right spirit is actually injurious to us. We also see from St John’s words the reason we have a fast… Continue reading St John Chrysostom on true fasting. WORTHY TO BE READ during a fast free week!