Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann
The joy that permeates and enlightens the service of Lazarus Saturday stresses one major theme: the forthcoming victory of Christ over Hades. "Hades" is the Biblical term for Death and its universal power, for...
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ARCHPRIEST ALEXANDER ILIASHENKO
One week of Great Lent remains. The week after is Holy Week, for which we have been preparing for so long, and which will be dedicated entirely to the remembrance of the Savior’s Way of the Cross to...
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ARCHPRIEST ALEXANDER MEN (+1990)
On the fifth Sunday of Great Lent the Church celebrates the memory of St. Mary of Egypt, the holy ascetic struggler, who is an image of the deep and sincere repentance that brings forth great fruit.
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By His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, Geron of America
1. Meditate on the History of Salvation
Think of the Lenten period as a time of meditating on the history of salvation. Think about the...
BODILY SICKNESS, THE RESULT of sinfulness, is inextricably intertwined in human life. Part of the mission of the Apostles and of the Church is the liberation of the children of the Kingdom from the bondage to sickness, sin, and death which is a consequence of the Fall. So it...
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“O Invincible and incomprehensible and divine power of the precious and life-giving Cross, forsake not us sinners.”
(From the order of Great Compline)
The Cross is the mighty and profound symbol of Christianity, a symbol whose...
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Before confession, each person must attempt to recall all of his sins, voluntary and involuntary, must attentively go over his life in order, to the extent possible, to recall all of his sins, not only those committed since his last confession, but also those past sins which...
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“My soul, O my soul, rise up! Why art thou sleeping? The end draws near, and soon thou shalt be troubled...”
In a sense, these words are at the core of the Great Penitential Canon, composed by St. Andrew of Crete, one of the great Saints...
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The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts may be characterized, without exaggeration, as the heart, the center of the services of Great Lent. In some ancient manuscripts of the service books, it is known as the “Liturgy of the Great Quadragesima.” In fact, it is the service which...
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Great Lent and Pascha are the brightest and most instructive times in the Orthodox Calendar. That season began with Forgiveness Sunday (February 26), when we mutually asked and received forgiveness of one another. It is a season filled with prayer, services, spiritual and...
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