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...
Sunday of Orthodoxy
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
5 March 2023
On the first Sunday of Lent, we celebrate the Sunday of Orthodoxy, that is ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...