Lent
The Veneration of the Cross
Fr. Alexander Schmemann
18 March 2023
The Third Sunday of Lent is called “The Veneration of the Cross”. At the Vi...
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Sunday of Orthodoxy
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
5 March 2023
On the first Sunday of Lent, we celebrate the Sunday of Orthodoxy, that is ...
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Τhe Τriumph of Orthodoxy
Saint Luke the Physician, Archbishop of the Crimea
5 March 2023
Discourse on the First Sunday of Lent
On the first Sunday of Great Lent, o...
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The Struggle of Great Lent – ΙI
Elder Ephraim in Arizona †
28 February 2023
Of course, we must keep the fast only as far as we’re able, with discreti...
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Great Lent, the Welcome Time – ΙΙ
Symeon, Metropolitan of New Smyrna
28 February 2023
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But the hymnographer also calls Great Lent something else. He says it...
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Great Lent, the Welcome Time – Ι
Symeon, Metropolitan of New Smyrna
27 February 2023
“Behold the welcome time,
Behold the time of repentance;
Let us reject th...
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The Struggle of Great Lent – Ι
Elder Ephraim in Arizona †
26 February 2023
At this time we’re entering the great spiritual arena of the blessed Great ...
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The Great Martyr Theodore the Recruit’s Miracle
Georgios Papademetropoulos
12 March 2022
On the Saturday of the 1st Week of Lent, we celebrate the remarkable miracl...
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Saint John of the Ladder
Archimandrite Georgios Alendas
26 March 2017
Great Lent is a period of repentance, during which our stony hearts must be...
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Penthos: The Lenten Journey to Joy
Emma Cazabonne
17 February 2017
O Lamb of God,
Who take away the sins of all,
Take from me the heavy yo...
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