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 ...
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Spiritual Preparation
To Meet the Lord
Do not follow those who say that when Man dies, he takes his secrets with him. Man takes nothing with him from his secrets except those that he did not confess to here, that is, those that he did not repent of. Are there things that you are ashamed to carry with you to meet ...
Read moreThe Nativity Fast
Tomorrow, in our Church, begins another forty-day fast that is named after the feast of Nativity. If compared to Great Lent, this fast will be considered lightened in form, that is, in spite of our abstinence, in it, from meat and its by-products, we are allowed to eat fish, except on Wednesdays and Fridays. Are ...
Read moreHoly and Great Saturday
From Pascha to Pascha The forty-day Holy Lent is our path to a new life given forth by Pascha. I know many brethren, who practice fasting with ecclesiastical attention, and when it ends, they feel great distress. How is this distress to be treated? How can it not turn, in us, into (our) remaining fixed ...
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