“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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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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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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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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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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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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Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)
We commemorate today the Assembly of Russia’s New Martyrs and Confessors – all those who martyred in the years of severe persecutions against the faith and the Church of Christ. It is a great occasion for the whole...
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The Baptism of our Lord Jesus Christ is one of the twelve great feasts, one which is celebrated with no less solemnity than is the Nativity of Christ. One might say that the Nativity and the Baptism are two related holidays comprising one single celebration, the Feast of...
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