Lenten Meditations

• The First Week of Great Lent - Clean Monday
An Anthem for Great Lent and all of Life.
• Clean Wednesday
Meditation on Psalm 10, the Prokeimenon, in the Sixth Hour
• The First Week of Great Lent - Clean Friday
THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR OUR UNREPENTANT HEARTS
• O Lord and Master of my life... The Prayer of St Ephrem explained.
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Sundays Approaching Great Lent

Sunday of Zacchaeus

Homilies on the Sunday of Zacchaeus


Publican and the Pharisee

Homilies on the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee

• Questions about the Publican and the Pharisee

The Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Homilies on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son

• Sunday of the Prodigal Son
S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers

The Sunday of the Last Judgment

Homilies on the Sunday of the Last Judgment (Meatfare)

• Synaxarion for the Sunday of the Last Judgment
Meatfare Sunday
• Prayer on the Sunday of the Last Judgment
• Meatfare Week, Meatfare Saturday and the Commemoration of the Departed
S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers
• Sunday of Meatfare or of the Last Judgment
S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers

The Sunday Of Forgiveness

Homilies on the Sunday of Forgiveness (Cheesefare)

• Synaxarion of Forgiveness Sunday
• Saturday before Cheesefare
Commemoration of the Ascetics
S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers
• Cheesefare Sunday
S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers
• Thoughts At The Threshold Of The Holy Great Lenten Fast And The Prayer Of The Publican
Archbishop Averky Of Syracuse
• Questions and answers concerning Forgiveness Sunday
• The Desert Fathers on Fasting

Days during Great Lent and Holy Week

The First Week of Great Lent - Clean Week

• The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete - a Short Explanation
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Clean Monday

The Great Canon As Said on Clean Monday, suitable for printing, in large print with Rubrics in Red, and the parts of the choir and reader clearly marked.

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Clean Tuesday

The Great Canon As Said on Clean Tuesday

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Clean Wednesday

• Meditation on Psalm 10, the Prokeimenon, in the Sixth Hour
The Lord is righteous and hath loved righteousness; upon uprightness hath His countenance looked.

The Great Canon As Said on Clean Wednesday

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Clean Thursday

The Great Canon As Said on Clean Thursday

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• RTF Format

First Sunday of Great Lent

Homilies on the First Sunday of Great Lent - Sunday of Orthodoxy

• Homily of Holy New Hieromartyr Tikhon, Metropolitan of Moscow
Sunday of Orthodoxy, 1903
• The Sunday of Orthodoxy
A Sermon by Archbishop Averky - 1971
• Prayer on the First Sunday Great Lent
• The Word "Anathema" and it's meaning - by Saint John Maximovitch
• What is an Anathema? - by Bishop Theophan the Recluse
• True Orthodoxy
by +ARCHBISHOP AVERKY of Syracuse and Holy Trinity Monastery
• What is Orthodoxy?
By Archbishop Averky of Syracuse and Holy Trinity Monastery
• What is Ecumenism
by Fr John Moses

Second Sunday of Great Lent

Homilies on the Second Sunday of Great Lent

• Synaxarion for the Second Sunday of Great Lent
• Pearls from St Gregory Palamas
• Gleanings from the Fathers concerning the Paralytic
The Gospel read on this Sunday
• The Second Week of Great Lent
S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers

Third Sunday of Great Lent - the Precious Cross

Homilies on the Third Sunday of Great Lent

• Synaxarion for the Third Sunday of Great Lent
The Precious Cross
• Questions about the Sunday of the Cross
• Prayers for Sunday of the Holy Cross (3rd Sunday of Lent)
• Gleanings from the Holy Fathers about the Cross
• An Explanation of the Russian Orthodox Three-Bar Cross
From the Church of the Nativity, Erie PA
• Why do we wear a cross?
• St John Maximovitch on The Exaltation of the Precious Cross
• Explanation of the Cross Which we Wear about the Shoulders on a Cord.

Fourth Sunday of Great Lent

Homilies on the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent

• St John Climacus and the Ladder of Divine Ascent
A Sermon by Blessed Metroplitan Philaret
• Prayer for the 4th Sunday of Lent
• The Fourth Week of Great Lent
S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers

Fifth Sunday of Great Lent - St Mary of Egypt

Homilies on the Fifth Sunday of Great Lent

• Synaxarion for the Fifth Sunday of Great Lent
St Mary of Egypt
• Questions about St. Mary of Egypt
• The Life of our Holy Mother Mary of Egypt - From The Great Canon, the Work of Saint Andrew of Crete
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• Life of St Mary of Egypt - "By the numbers"
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• Synaxarion - Fifth Sunday of Great Lent - St Mary of Egypt
• Prayer on the Fifth Sunday of Great Lent

Lazarus Saturday

• Thoughts on Lazarus Saturday - the resurrection of Lazarus, the four days dead, of Bethany
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• Lazarus Saturday - the resurrection is NOW (mp3)
• Questions about Lazarus Saturday
• Kontakion On the Raising of Lazarus
by St. Romanos the Melodist
• Prayer on the Saturday of the Righteous Lazarus

Palm Sunday

Homilies on Palm Sunday


Holy Thursday

• A Trebnic Prayer on Holy Thursday

Holy Friday

Holy Friday
at the Tomb
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Holy Friday
at the Tomb
2002
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Holy Saturday

• Holy Saturday
The Resurrection makes the Impossible Possible!
2002
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Pascha

• See our PASCHA Page for the materials concerning Holy Feast.

Catechesis

• Orthodox Christian Fasting, by St John Chrysostom
• The Desert Fathers on Fasting
• Orthodox Christianity: Questions about fasting
• Orthodox Christianity: Questions about the Great Canon of St Andrew
• Questions about the last week of Great Lent
• 10 Questions about Lenten Services - Volume 1
• Questions about holy week
• Questions about Jesus' appearances after the resurrection.
• Questions about Bright week

Lenten Lectionary

• Lenten Lectionary for all Six weeks of Great Lent and Holy Week.

Prayers and Services commonly or exclusively used in Great Lent

• Great Compline in HTML, PDF and RTF formats
• The Prayer of St Ephraim the Syrian - PDF format
Four prayers on a page, suitable to print out, and cut into quarters.
Page of English, Page 2 of Slavonic
The perfect size to fit in a prayer book. OTHER FORMATS rtf  

• Prayers at the beginning of the Holy Forty Day Fast
• Prayer to the Lord Jesus Christ, Crucified
• Service Of Supplication For the Conversion of Those Who Have Departed into Error. To be sung on the Sunday of Orthodoxy and on other needful occasions
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The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete

• The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete - a Short Explanation
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As chanted on Monday of the first Week

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As chanted on Tuesday of the first Week

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As chanted on Wednesday of the first Week

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As chanted on Thursday of the first Week

• PDF Format
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As chanted on Thursday of the Fifth Week

• HTML - Liturgical English
• PDF Format - Liturgical English
• RTF Format - Liturgical English
• "Jordanville Edition" (uses "Thee and Thou" in referring to God and the Saints, and "You and Your" when referring to himself).
PDF edition
• The Life of our Holy Mother Mary of Egypt - From The Great Canon, the Work of Saint Andrew of Crete
Uses Liturgical English Also in PDF    RTF  

• The Life of our Holy Mother Mary of Egypt - From The Great Canon, the Work of Saint Andrew of Crete
The "Jordanville Edition", which does not use liturgical English.

Hierarchal Lenten Epistles

• AN ADDRESS of the Most Reverend Tikhon, Bishop of the Aleutian Islands and of North America on Orthodoxy Sunday
• Great Lenten Epistle 2000 - His Eminence, Metropolitan Vitaly

Hierarchal Paschal Epistles

• Paschal Epistle of Saint John Maximovitch 1956
• Paschal Epistle of Metropolitan Anastasy - 1940
• Paschal Epistle of Blessed Metropolitan Philaret - 1982
• Paschal Epistle of Metropolitan Vitaly 1997
• Paschal Epistle of Metropolitan Vitaly 1998
• Metropolitan Cyprian's Paschal Encyclical - 1999
• The Serbian Orthodox Church to Her Spiritual Children at Pascha, 1999

Fasting

• ON FASTING
• By the Waters of Babylon, The Great Fast, Our Exile
Fr Seraphim Rose 1965
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• Fasting Rules
• Great Lent Fasting Typicon according to the Orthodox Western Rite
• Olive Oil Usage
• Fasting and "Oil" days

Rubrics, Typicon

• Great Lent Fasting Typicon according to the Orthodox Western Rite
• Dates of Great Lent and Pascha through 2010
• Vespers on Wednesdays and Fridays of Great Lent when the Presanctified Liturgy is not served
• The Order Of Divine Services Supplementary Texts
Additions to the Order of Divine Services published by St John of Kronstadt Press
This is a large PDF File with Two sections:
Supplement 1 - Lenten Services during the Lesser Fasts
Supplement 2 - The Saturday Requiem Service
• Presanctified Liturgy question - Why is the curtain left half open?
• Preparation for Great Lent
S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers

Miscellaneous Articles

• Common date for Pascha
An article detailing the efforts of Lutheran and Orthodox Ecumenists to have a common date for Pascha and commentary about some of the incredible things said in it.

Stories

• THE BISHOP
by Anton Chekhov

VERY Serious!

• Irish Lent!