Fasting

Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete (As chanted on Monday of the first Week)

Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete (As chanted on Monday of the first Week)

06 March 2011

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On Monday of the First Week of Lent, during Great Compline, after Psalm 69, the Canon is sung. The Eirmosi are sung twice, at the beginning and end of each Song. Before each Troparion we make the ...

Why Spin the Pedals?

Why Spin the Pedals?

06 March 2011

The years went by, and the neophyte ardor cooled down imperceptibly. I learnt much about fasting, read intelligent, profound books, was no longer afraid of labels with egg powder, and my mother no ...

What Should I Do During Great Lent?

What Should I Do During Great Lent?

06 March 2011

Most of us realize that prayer, fasting, and almsgiving are the three basic Christian and lenten necessities, but we often realize as well that we cannot keep the strictest lenten regulations of the ...

Why do We Fast?

09 August 2010

When you fast, do you ever feel sorely challenged, irritated and impatient; annoyed with the lack of food? Sometimes the fasting experience seems negative. “Why do I put myself through this?” I ...

The Apostles’ Fast

02 June 2010

The Great Commission is a huge undertaking. Each one of us participates in it to our abilities and using our God-given talents. Some of us will take the message of Christ far and wide; others to ...

Sermon for Great Saturday

Sermon for Great Saturday

02 April 2010

Archpriest Valentine Amphiteatrov (+1908)

It is in consideration of this that the Church calls this Saturday "Great". It gives our mourning a calm and peaceful expression. Here, at this tomb, it grants the soul to sigh with quiet ...

Fault and Crime

Fault and Crime

31 March 2010

Archpriest Alexander Avduguin

What is the difference between the actions of Peter and Judas? Why did Judas Iscariot, a former Apostle, become a symbol of the ultimate fall from grace, while St. Peter not only dwells in God's ...

“It Is the Only Time of the Year When We Forget Ourselves”

“It Is the Only Time of the Year When We Forget Ourselves”

31 March 2010

Passion Week. It is the only time of the year when we forget ourselves, our duties, and our requests. In the Church’s hymnody of the Passion services from Thursday to Saturday you will not find any ...

Before the Epitaphios

31 March 2010

Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)

For it is dreadful to be abandoned by neighbors and friends, but it is even more dreadful to think that God has left you, when an insuperable wall has been raised between you and God, and He seems ...

The Chaste Adulteress: On Great Wednesday

The Chaste Adulteress: On Great Wednesday

30 March 2010

You are fortunate if you find someone capable of understanding you and of sympathizing. In Christ, man finds such understanding and sympathy. In the encounter with Christ, sin begins to seem not so ...

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