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| | Great Lent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Great Lent is the greatest fasting period in the church year in Eastern Christianity, which prepares Christians for the greatest feast of the church year, Easter (or "Holy Pascha"). | | | One prayer that is said often, accompanied by great reverences, is the Prayer of St. | | | The Great Lent and The Holy Pascha Coptic articles and hymns at http://St-Takla.org |
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| | THE GREAT LENT - A Week by Week Meaning |
| | Great Lent is like a "workshop" where the character of the faithful is spiritually uplifted and strengthened; where his life is rededicated to the principles and ideals of the Gospel; where the faith culminates in deep conviction of life; where apathy and disinterest turn into vigorous activities of faith and good works. | | | Lent is the period of time for self-examination by the believer; of putting on the spiritual armor of the Militant Church; of applying the riches of prayers and almsgiving; of adopting deeply the meaning of repentance; of atonement and reconciliation with God Almighty. | | | As such, Great Lent is the sacred Institute of the Church to serve the individual believer in participating as a member of the Mystical Body of Christ, and, from time to time, to improve the standards of faith and morals in his Christian life. |
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| | Lent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | With the acceptance of Christianity as the state religion of Rome in the 4th century, its character was endangered by the great influx of new members. | | | Easter celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, while Lent is a time of preparation for Holy Week (or the Passion Week for Catholics worshiping in the new rite of the Mass). | | | The fourth Sunday within Lent, which marks the halfway point between Ash Wednesday and Easter, is sometimes referred to as Laetare Sunday, particularly by Roman Catholics. |
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| | Great Lent - OrthodoxWiki |
| | The season of Great Lent is the time of preparation for the feast of the Resurrection of Christ, It is the living symbol of man's entire life which is to be fulfilled in his own resurrection from the dead with Christ. | | | Great Lent is followed by Holy Week, the week beginning with Palm Sunday and preceding Pascha. | | | The Lenten Triodion governs the divine services of Great Lent as well as those of the Weeks of Preparation preceding Great Lent. |
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http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/Great_Lent
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| | The Season of Lent |
| | Lent originated in the very earliest days of the Church as a preparatory time for Easter, when the faithful rededicated themselves and when converts were instructed in the faith and prepared for baptism. | | | The Great Lent is followed by Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday, which are feast days, then the Lenten fast resumes on Monday of Holy Week. | | | In the Roman Catholic Church, Lent officially ends at sundown on 5 April (Holy Thursday), with the beginning of the mass of the Lord’s Supper. |
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| | Fasting and Great Lent |
| | Great Lent is the 40-day season of spiritual preparation that comes before the most important Feast of the Christian year, Holy Pascha (which means “Passover” and is commonly called “Easter”,). | | | During Great Lent, the Church teaches us how to receive Him by using the two great means of repentance— prayer and fasting. | | | The Prayer of Saint Ephraim the Syrian is traditionally said many times throughout each day during Great Lent, in addition to our daily prayers. |
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http://www.antiochian.org/fasting-great-lent
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| | Great Lent and Holy Week |
| | In the Orthodox Church, Great Lent is not a season of morbidity and gloominess. | | | The services for Great and Holy Monday are celebrated on Palm Sunday evening; the Orthodox Church begins her day at sunset. | | | It is a historical feast commemorating the return of the Icons to the Churches in the year 843 A.D., after the heresy of iconoclasm was overcome. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Lent |
| | Among many Christians today, Lent is a time for doing penance by praying, studying the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, refraining from sin, and giving time or money to charities. | | | In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Lenten season before Easter is generally called Great Lent because it is the most important of the four Lenten seasons observed by Orthodox Christians. | | | Fasting practices vary widely among other Christian denominations and between individuals. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761559299
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| | Lent: All About Lent |
| | Lent is a time of extra intense spiritual house cleaning, where the focus on prayer, fasting and almsgiving becomes the most important and supersedes all else. | | | Lent, which comes from the Teutonic word for springtime, can be viewed as a spiritual spring cleaning: a time for taking spiritual inventory and then cleaning out those things which hinder our corporate and personal relationships with Jesus Christ and our service to him. | | | Lent is the 40 day period of fasting leading up to the feast of Easter, recalling Jesus' 40-day fast in the wilderness. |
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| | Orthodox Christian Fellowship - OCF |
| | Written in the seventh century by one of hymn writers of the Orthodox Church, this canon is the purest expression of repentance. | | | We cannot be in church daily, but we can follow the Church's progress in Lent by reading those lessons and books that the Church reads in her worship. | | | While, we must always pray, Great Lent is the time for an increase in prayer and also of a deepening in our prayer. |
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http://www.ocf.net/articles/lent_032103.asp
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| | Great Lent in Russian Orthodox Church |
| | In accordance with this, Great Lent is for the Orthodox Christian, on the one hand, a time of radiant sorrow, and simultaneously with this, it is a difficult journey, marked by struggle, to the shining and beautiful goal of the feast of the Resurrection of Christ--Holy Pascha. | | | And for us this is a forty-day journey to the light of Holy Pascha, for the feast of the Resurrection of Christ is not simply a great feast or even the greatest of all the feasts of the Church year, but is the very essence and core of our faith. | | | We encounter a different attitude toward Great Lent in those who belong to the Church not through pious inertia, but who seek a faith that is conscious and aware. |
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| | Великий Пост и Пасха Христова (2006 г.)(по-английски) |
| | And the Great Lent is the time of correction, spiritual [1] and bodily "podvigs" (feats), and Paskha (Easter) is the Orthodox celebration, the celebration of the right faith. | | | The Great Lent, the time filled with prayers, repentance, forgivness, self-correction, spiritual and bodily "podvigs" (feats - heroic deeds) ends with Paskha, as it was said in the very beginning, the period of Orthodox celebration, the celebration of the true faith. | | | Therefore, the Great Lent is the period of preparation for the biggest holy day, the holy day of Sacred Paskha. |
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| | Traditions of Great Lent and Holy Week |
| | Thus, in the Eastern Church on the weekdays of Great Lent there is no Divine Liturgy (unless a special feast day occurs), because there is no "celebration." This is not to deprive the faithful of the Holy Eucharist. | | | In the Melkite Church there are four major periods of fast and abstinence: The Great Fast (or Lent) which precedes the Pascha of the Lord, the Fast of the Holy Apostles after the feast of the Ascension, the Fast of the Theotokos during the first 2 weeks of August, and the Pre-Christmas Fast. | | | The Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great is celebrated in conjunction with Vespers, with special prayerful remembrance for the gift of the holy priesthood. |
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http://www.melkite.org/lent.htm
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| | Excerpts from Fr Schmemann's "Great Lent" |
| | And it is this vision, the foretaste of Easter, that makes Lent's sadness bright and our lenten effort a "spiritual spring." The night may be dark and long, but all along the way a mysterious and radiant dawn seems to shine on the horizon. | | | It is the joy of Easter, it is the entrance into the glory of the Kingdom. | | | For we may then understand that the liturgical traditions of the Church, all its cycles and services, exist, first of all, in order to help us recover the vision and the taste of that new life which we so easily lose and betray, so that we may repent and return to it. |
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http://www.monachos.net/great_lent/schmemann_intro.shtml
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| | Resources for Great Lent |
| | Lent is a wonderful time to help young people learn more about their faith by gathering regularly and doing activities related to the particular Sunday in Great Lent. | | | Includes a week by week description of the Great Lent, the Institute of Lent, the origin of fasting, the further development of fasting, the meaning of the feast days of Lent, the four preparatory weeks Before Lent, the seven Sundays of the Great Lent, and the significance of Lent. | | | The Great Lenten Prayer of St Ephraim the Syrian (English) -- In Slavonic |
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| | Our Lady of Fatima Byzantine Catholic Church, Pascha |
| | The Eastern Christian Churches (both Catholic and Orthodox) consider Great and Holy Week as a separate unit with its own Fasting and Abstinence requirements, not technically included in the Great Lent. | | | Therefore, in about the 8th Century, it was necessary to add four days to the beginning of Lent to bring the number of days up to the traditional 40. | | | In this way, we prepare for the fasting and trials of the Great Lent, Commending ourselves, and one another, and all our lives to Christ our God. |
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http://www.byzantinecatholic.org/Feasts/Pascha1.html
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| | Resources for Orthodox Great Lent |
| | The great Hymn of St Romanos the Melodist on the raising of Lazarus—one of the most moving reflections upon Christ's gift of new life to His friend and to all the faithful, by tending to the 'tears of Mary and Martha'. | | | The great psalm of repentance, in English, Church Slavonic, Russian and Greek—to be said before entering the temple, before communion and confession, and in all times of repentance and need. | | | Reflections on the Gospel reading of the Publican and Pharisee and its application to the spiritual journey leading into Lent. |
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http://www.monachos.net/great_lent/index.shtml
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| | SOME REFLECTIONS ON FASTING FOR GREAT LENT |
| | In spite of the great love which Jesus and His Church have demonstrated for the world and for life in it, there is in Christianity a reservation about the world and human life as it is now. | | | The Church calls this a "fallen world," a world which in all its aspects is in some way separated voluntarily from the love and life of God, its Creator. | | | Every year, as the Easter Lent approaches, Orthodox Christians begin to wonder what, if anything, to do in preparation for the feast. |
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| | Great Lent |
| | For those who are unable to fast for the 48 days, the Church permits observing the Great Lent during the first week and week of this period and all Wednesdays and Fridays in between. | | | The Syriac Orthodox Church observes the Great Lent during the 48 days prior to Easter. | | | The date of Easter is set according to the Julian calendar in the Middle East and Diaspora; the Church in Malankara, however, has followed the Gregorian Calendar since 1953. |
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| | Explanation of Triodion, Great Lent, & Holy Week, Leading up to the end of the Pentecostarion |
| | Great Compline is observed on a parish level during Great Lent on the weeknights, except when the Presanctified Liturgy is held and Small Compline and the Akathist Hymn to the Theotokos is celebrated. | | | Let us keep in mind that the dates of these services indicated during the Triodion, Great Lent, and the Pentecostarion are movable feast in the Orthodox Church. | | | For Six Sundays (and certain Saturdays) the Orthodox Church observes commemorations during Holy Great Lent, and thereafter Holy Week, Our Lord’s Holy Resurrection, His Ascension, Holy Pentecost, the day of the Holy Spirit, and concluding with end of the Pentecostarion with the celebration of the Sunday of All Saints. |
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| | Holy Great Lent That Brings In Faith Victory |
| | Holy Great Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church begins on February 26th this year, and this period of time can be for us all a great spiritual victory, when we allow faith in Christ Our Lord to be a part of our lives daily. | | | We have a great spiritual opportunity during Holy Great Lent, let us earnestly with great Christian love struggle, and behold Christ Our Lord, who is the Resurrection and life without death. | | | Think about attending during Holy Great Lent the many services held during the week days: Great Compline, the Presanctified Divine Liturgy, and the Akathist to the Mother of God. |
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| | Lent - ReligionFacts |
| | Lent was originally observed for six weeks excluding Sundays (36 days), but this was eventually extended to 40 days in order to parallel Christ's temptation in the wilderness. | | | In the Western Churches, Lent begins on Ash Wednesday (six and a half weeks before Easter). | | | However, Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are still fast days for the Catholic Church, and the emphasis on Lent as a period of penitence remains. |
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| | Entering Great Lent |
| | Accordingly, for Orthodox Christians Great Lent is both a time of bright sorrow and at the same time a difficult, measured, spiritual struggle, a pilgrimage to a wonderful goal: the Feast of the Resurrection of Christ, Holy Pascha. | | | For this reason, the central theme of the entire period of Great Lent becomes that mystical conjoining of sorrow and hope, of darkness and light: God made me His temple, but that temple is in need of cleansing and renewal, and I believe and hope that God will help me perform it. | | | And for us, this is a forty -day journey to the light of Holy Pascha, for the feast of the Resurrection of Christ is not merely a great feast, or even the greatest of all the feasts of the liturgical year, but is the very essence and heart of our faith. |
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| | Amazon.com: Great Lent: Journey to Pascha: Books: Alexander Schmemann |
| | lent - the way the tridion tells about it - is less a "what to do when and how" it is a spiritual journey from the acknowlegment of how far from God we live our lives to the mystery of the risen Lord who reaches out to us. | | | Father Alexander Schmemann, of blessed memory, the great Orthodox liturgical theologian, presents in this volume a series of brief yet spiritually incisive essays guiding the Orthodox believer through the season of Great Lent -- the period of prayer, fasting and alms-giving thaht precedes Pascha, the Orthodox Easter. | | | I fully agree with my co-reviewers that his book is indispensable for people who want to deal with the orthodox practice of great lent. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0913836044?v=glance
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| | Pathway To Salvation: Great Lent |
| | You are great in mercy and able, in Your Power, to assist, support, and save all those who place their hope in Your Holy Name; and to You, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is due all glory, honor, and adoration, now and ever, and forever. | | | As a merciful and gracious God, enable us to begin these holy days of the Great Fast with perfect repentance, with humility instead of hypocrisy, with fervent prayer, with hunger and thirst, with frequent prostration, and with a contrite heart. | | | For You are a gracious Lord and alone love mankind, and You are our God and we give glory to You, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now and ever, and forever. |
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| | Advancing Into Great Lent With Christian Love |
| | As we continue onward into Great Lent or rather Holy Great Lent, and it can be holy when we make it holy, we should consider it is a time for each of us to examine our faithfulness to His covenant. | | | The Eastern Orthodox Church enters Great Lent this year on March 10th, and the celebration of Holy Pascha —Our Lord’s Glorious Holy Resurrection is on April 27th. | | | Our Christian faith and experience is rooted in the covenant that God established with His people as detailed in the Old Testament. |
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| | The Sundays of Great Lent |
| | The first Sunday of Great Lent, called the Sunday of Orthodoxy, celebrates the ending of the iconoclast heresy and the restoration of icons to the Churches in 813 A.D. by the blessed Empress Theodora. | | | At the Vigil, after the Great Doxology, the priest raises the Cross above his head and carries it from the altar to the middle of the church where he places it, surrounded by flowers, on a table or analogion. | | | Midway through the fast, on the Third Sunday of Lent, we are given the image of the holy Cross. |
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| | Eparch's Message for Great Lent 2005 - Melkite Eparchy of Newton |
| | By fully embracing the spiritual combat of Great Lent we prepare ourselves to celebrate with pure and radiant joy the Feast of the Resurrection. | | | Clothed in a garment of light, let us hasten to the holy third-day Resurrection that shines upon the world with the glory of eternal life.” When we live clothed “with the brightness of love and the splendor of prayer,” we can say that we are already living in the spirit of the Resurrection. | | | Rejoicing in the virtues of the Spirit, may we persevere with love, so as to be worthy to see the solemn Passion of Christ our God, and with great spiritual gladness to behold His holy Resurrection.” This Lenten combat is first and foremost a spiritual combat. |
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| | Preparing for Great Lent |
| | We usually think of this preparatory time as the period of Great Lent, but in fact it begins three weeks earlier with the Sundays of the Publican and Pharisee, the Prodigal Son and the Last Judgment. | | | The Gospel reading for that Sunday relates the story of Zacchaeus, "the chief among the publicans," a rich tax-collector despised for his extortionary practices. | | | On Wednesday and Friday of the final preparatory week, unless there is a major feast, the Divine Liturgy is not served, and on vespers for Wednesday we hear for the first time the lenten prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian, "O Lord and Master of my life. |
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| | Directions to Orthodoxy - Great Lent |
| | And it is primarily the renewal of that love, a growth in it, that we seek in Great Lent, in fasting and prayer, in the entire spirit and the entire effort of that season. | | | In the Orthodox Church, the last Sunday before Great Lent - the day on which, at Vespers, Lent is liturgically announced and inaugurated - is called Forgiveness Sunday. | | | On the morning of that Sunday, at the Divine Liturgy, we hear the words of Christ: |
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| | Lent Prayers, Devotions, Activities and Resources from CatholicMom.com |
| | Message of His Holiness Benedict XVI for Lent 2006 | | | An insightful, often poignant reflection on the season of Lent - a season of the Church year that is mirrored by seasons in our lives. | | | Ashes are a symbol of penance made sacramental by the blessing of the Church, and they help us develop a spirit of humility and sacrifice. |
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http://www.catholicmom.com/lent.htm
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| | Ways to Share Great Lent and Pascha (Gidus-Mercera) |
| | Great and Holy Friday is the most somber day of Holy Week; thus, the Entombment service helps us express our sorrow over Christ's death on the cross. | | | Tell your child everyone will bow down to God "many, many times." Ask him/her to try to listen to the hymns sung and see if s/he recognizes any stories from the Bible. | | | Akathist to the Theotokos is made up of twenty-four stanzas in the form of an alphabetic acrostic, alpha through omega, offered within a compline service. |
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| | GREAT LENT, HOLY WEEK, AND PASCHA IN THE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH |
| | It is with great joy that we address you once again with the Resurrectional greeting “Christ is Risen!” Read More > | | | On this, the great and glorious feast of Pascha, I greet you with our cherished and joyful Paschal greeting, Hristos Anesti! | | | During the pre-Lenten period, the services of the Church include hymns from the Triodion, a liturgical book that contains the services from the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee, the tenth before Pascha (Easter), through Great and Holy Saturday. |
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| | The Holy Quadragesima - How a Christian Should Regard the Time of Holy and Great Lent |
| | " The Great Lent is given to us by our holy Church as a time of increased prayer and fasting. | | | If we make at least some effort to enterinto the spirit of this blessed time-to attend the deeply moving Church services, to observe the fast, to abstain from worldly amusements and distractions, to offer heartfelt repentance and prayer to God-we shall, with God's help, begin to cast out those sins which now burden our souls. | | | The holy Church thus sets aside for Christians one tenth of the yearly cycle, a tithe as it were, for special dedication to God and care for |
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| | Byzantines.net - O Lord, Hear My Prayer (Private Devotions for the Great Fast) |
| | During the five Sundays which preceded the beginning of the Great Lent, the Sacred Scriptures set down for us the guidelines which are necessary to enter this Sacred Season with a sincere and humble attitude. | | | Be not angry with me forever, by reserving my evils for me; neither condemn me to the great abyss; for you O Lord, are the God of them who repent; and to me show all your goodness; for you will save me, unworthy that I am, according to your great mercy. | | | Remember, O Lord, those who are in need of Your great tenderness of heart, and those who love us, and those who hate us, and those who have asked us, unworthy though we be, to pray for them. |
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| | Great Lent 1997 |
| | With the advent of Great Lent, she desires not to add to our burden, but rather to deliver us from the ones we have. | | | Herein is the spiritual wealth of our Orthodox Church made manifest as well as her ever-vigilant care for the salvation of her children. | | | With the help of our Lord Who loves us, we have entered upon this yearís devotional season of the Triodion and have commenced Holy and Great Lent. |
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| | Greek Orthodox communities celebrate Mardi Gras and prepare for Great Lent |
| | Like other communities across the country, the Holy Apostles church organizes annual festivities meant for "dancing, celebrating, and having a good time before Lent," as churchgoer Niki Karoutas described them. | | | Fasting, Father Angelo explained, is not just about not eating, but about spiritual hunger. | | | Reverend Angelo Pappas of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, spoke to our staff after leading the forgiveness prayer that marks the beginning of Lent. |
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| | The Great Lent |
| | During the Great Lent the Church makes an effort to wake us up to repentance. | | | The state of communion with God is so great, that this communion itself is our reward, the | | | Our weapon is frequent prayer, creative prayer beyond a mechanical repetition of memorized words. |
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| | Second Sunday of Great Lent |
| | This council with his disciples, impiously spewing forth accusations against the Orthodox and belittling them, the great Gregory, clothed with invincible power from on high, opened his lips and swept away all the heresy like dust from the face of the earth. | | | Second Sunday of Great Lent - St. Gregory Palamas (1296-1359) | | | Barlaam was unable to endure his disgrace, so the reviler of piety and schismatic fled to the West, from which he had come. |
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| | Fasting Guidelines for Great Lent |
| | It is important for you and your family to participate fully in Great Lent, controlling the desires of the flesh, repenting of sins, fasting to the best of your ability, and working this all out within your family and in consultation with your spiritual father. | | | Remember, the Great Fast is a time during which we must avail ourselves to increased prayer, scripture reading (and lives of saints), and almsgiving. | | | The purpose of this outline is to educate us about fasting and abstinence during Great Lent. |
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| | Great Lent |
| | The question therefore is this: Are we more interested in strengthening our willpower this Great Lent to “walk in His holy ways”—to follow and participate in what the Church prescribes—or in weakening our conscience by doing it our way? | | | It is a question of intention, for a deep inner intention is where the Orthodox Christian life begins. | | | What is your “Pearl of Great Price?” Where do you position yourself in the hustle and bustle of today’s fiercely competitive, materialistic Society? |
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| | The Service of The Akathist Hymn |
| | On the fifth Friday of Great Lent, according to Greek practice, the Akathist Canon and Akathist Hymn are chanted in their entirety at | | | Akathist Hymn and Canon as chanted on the fifth Friday of Great Lent | | | This is presented in hopes that those who either belong to parishes which have no Friday evening services scheduled during Great Lent, or who are isolated from a parish, will find this beautiful service helpful in their Lenten struggles. |
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http://pages.prodigy.net/frjohnwhiteford/akathistforlent.htm
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