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Soul Saturdays
Dear Faithful, Congratulations on completing the second week of Great Lent. As we noted last week, Great Lent’s main theme is repentance. The Church teaches that we can work out our repentance through three main methods—prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Regarding almsgiving, it isn’t just monetary; it is a work of mercy to help…
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The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
Brothers and Sisters in Christ, As we finish the 2nd week of Lent, I would like to focus on a service that is peculiar to this holy season—the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts. It is a beautiful Liturgy, one only celebrated during the Great Fast. There is much history to this service, and while we…
Repentance
Dear Faithful, Welcome to Great Lent! Thanks be to God for this holy opportunity to renew our lives to the Lord through the Holy Fast! Truly this liturgical season is a time in which the Church is cleansed and renewed in Christ through the grace of repentance. Indeed, Great Lent is meaningless if we…
St John Chrysostom On the Gospel for Judgment Sunday (Homily LXXIX: Matthew 25: 31-41)
Unto this most delightful portion of Scripture, which we do not cease continually revolving, let us now listen with all earnestness and compunction, this wherewith His discourse ended, even as the last thing, reasonably; for great indeed was His regard for philanthropy and mercy. Wherefore in what precedes He had discoursed concerning this in a…
A Mirror Reflecting God and Man – Sunday of the Prodigal Son
A Selection from Sermons For Sundays By Very Rev. Protopresbyter Stephen Sedor Sunday of the Prodigal Son A Mirror Reflecting God and Man Have you ever wondered what God is like? Every thinking Christian has tried to fathom the mystery of God. We can get a very excellent picture of what God is like by…
Humility (Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee)
The Following is an excerpt from Great Lent, by Alexander Schmemann From Chapter 2: Preparation for Lent The next Sunday [after Zaccheus Sunday] is called the “Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee.” On the eve of this day, on Saturday at Vespers, the liturgical book of the Lenten season– the Triodion– makes its first…