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17 Mar 2017

“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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15 Mar 2017

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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09 Mar 2017

“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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06 Mar 2017

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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03 Mar 2017

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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27 Feb 2017

The Beginning of Great Lent & the Penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete

In the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete we see the images of Biblical characters pass before us one by one, both the just and sinners spoken of in the Old...

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22 Feb 2017

 The days immediately preceding Great Lent are often filled with a great deal of fuss and various concerns.  After all, at home, the refrigerator has not yet been cleared of non-Lenten foods, our heads remain filled with thoughts of the still-ongoing merriment in the...

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18 Feb 2017

In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Today, on our preparation journey towards Lent, we have come to the ultimate stage: we are confronted with judgment. If we pay attention to it, next week our spiritual destiny will be in our...

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14 Feb 2017

The Feast of the Meeting of the Lord is one of those holidays that we for the most part allow to pass by with little thought or reflection, without delving into what takes place on that great day.

On the Nativity, Christ comes down from the Heavens...

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10 Feb 2017

 For the Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Two Sundays before the beginning of Great Lent, the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15: 11-32) is read. That is the reason that particular Sunday came to be known as the ”Sunday of the Prodigal Son.” In order...

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