The Great Lent is also a time for reading, a journey towards greater understanding of the word and its meanings. You know that there are books provided by the Church that offer us eternal nourishment during Lent (the New Testament, The Ladder of Divine Ascent...). This encourages us to establish a special tradition of reading, ...
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Great Lent
Loving the Lord and the Brethren
Love is always due to the Lord first. I have read many pages showing that the genuineness of loving the Lord is revealed by loving the brethren, both near and far. However, those who have written them had learned from God that He is love. God, if we love Him first, makes the world an ...
Read moreStarting Off Towards Pascha
It has become an annual tradition for me to read, on days like these, Father Alexander Schmemann's book "The Great Lent". The book is of paramount importance, whether in terms of knowledge, as it pertains to the "Triodion period," or the author's ability to delve into our depths, in order to provide us with the ...
Read moreWilderness in the City
Before the onset of Great Lent, I went out with two friends to visit Metropolitan George Khodr. I am saying "went out”. This is a verb I unsheathed from the parlance of the Monks who used to go out from their cells, at the beginning of Lent, seeking an elder from whom to solicit a ...
Read moreThe Great Lent
Fasting, for those who practice it with conscious conviction, is a public acknowledgment that the world is transient. We all know that this great fast is our path to Pascha, a journey to the feast, as Father Alexander Schmemann, of blessed memory, used to call it. However, Pascha cannot be attained without the cross, without ...
Read moreSunday of the Last Judgment
Those who adhere to the worship in our Church are aware that the four Sundays, with which we prepare ourselves for the Great Lent, take their names from the Gospel passages we read in the Divine Liturgy. The Sunday of the Last Judgment, or this Sunday, draws its name from a reading taken by the ...
Read moreThe Prodigal Son
He is our companion to Pascha. His memory resonates in the prayers of the Great Lent from beginning to end. In the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32), God has been revealed to be a God Who does not want anything as much as He wants us to be free with Him, regardless of ...
Read moreSunday of the Publican and the Pharisee
The Church brings us today into the period of preparation for the Great Lent. The Gospel passage she reads to us (Luke 18:9-14) confers its name on this Sunday. The story of the parable is simple. A Pharisee and a tax collector enter the temple to pray. The former praises himself and looks down on ...
Read moreThe Meaning of Life
In the period preceding the feasts of Theophany, the Church engaged us in the beauty of celebrating the feasts of several apostles and prophets. Following the leave-taking of the feast, it plants for us, in our present days, other feasts for the saintly Fathers, that is, for many of them, namely the righteous fathers, the ...
Read moreWe are Still on the Way
The question of Saint John Climacus: “Why in the case of every other sin do we usually say that people have slipped, and simply that; but when we hear that someone has committed fornication, we say sorrowfully: So and so has fallen?” (15:44), confirms my conviction that the entire Great Lent is a call to ...
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