On the Fourth Sunday of the Fast, we celebrate the memory of our Holy Father John, the author of the Ladder. In the Church services for the fourth Sunday the Holy Church offers us a great example of the life…
The Third Sunday of Lent is called “The Veneration of the Cross.” At the Vigil of that day, after the Great Doxology, the Cross is brought in a solemn procession to the center of the church and remains there for…
On the Second Sunday of the Fast, we celebrate the memory of our Father among the Saints, Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica. The situation in St. Gregory’s time was that Orthodoxy was being debased; it was becoming worldly and being…
Introduction The Sunday of Orthodoxy is the first Sunday of Great Lent. The dominant theme of this Sunday since 843 has been that of the victory of the icons. In that year the iconoclastic controversy, which had raged on and…
“Of all lenten hymns and prayers, one short prayer can be termed the lenten prayer. Tradition ascribes it to one of the great teachers of spiritual life-St. Ephraim the Syrian. O Lord and Master of my life! Take from me…
