Tag: Lent

  • Smashing Icons

    The first Sunday of Great Lent, on the Orthodox calendar, is set aside to remember the restoration of icons to the Churches during the reign of the holy Empress Theodora (9th century). It commemorates as well the gift of the entirety of the Orthodox faith. I reprint these thoughts in honor of the day. The…

  • The Great Fast

    Monday (tomorrow) marks the beginning of Great Lent in the Orthodox Church (which liturgically begins at Forgiveness Vespers on Sunday). Though Great Lent is kept with rigor in Orthodox Tradition, there is nothing unusual asked of believers – nothing that we do not do on many days throughout the rest of the year. We fast;…


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  1. Michael, et al What a terrible and insignificant thing it would be if what we carried into eternity were nothing…

  2. As someone whose worldly memory is getting spotty, I am deeply grateful that Jesus’ memory of me seems stronger than…

  3. Justin, Yes, we say the pre-communion prayer in our Greek Orthodox parish as well.

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  5. Matthew, Also, we recite it at the last of the Pre-Communion Prayers: Receive me today, O Son of God, as…


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