April 2, 2015

Great Lent Resource Page

 
 
Patriarchal Catechetical Homily On the Opening of Holy and Great Lent

Preparation for Great Lent

The Purpose of Great Lent (Archimandrite Alexios of Xenophontos)

"The Holy Forty Day Fast" by Sergei V. Bulgakov

The Temptations and Troubles That Come Against Us During Great Lent (Saint Joseph the Hesychast)

Great Lent Imitates the Fast of Christ

Great Lent in Fourth Century Jerusalem

Why We Celebrate the Feast of Saint Anthony the Great on January 17th

How St. Theodore of Sykeon Spent His Youth Between Epiphany and Palm Sunday

Great Lent and Its Opportunities

The Sacred Number of 40

12 Changes and Transformations After a Period of Forty Days or Years in the Bible

An Old Testament Analogy of Great Lent (Metr. Nicholas of Mesogaia)

An Ecclesiastical Great Lent and Holy Week

Great Lent in Byzantium

The Journey of Great Lent

St. Dorotheos of Gaza: On the Holy Lenten Fast

Elder Paisios on the Arena of Great Lent

A Message to Orthodox Youth for Great Lent from Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

Lent—Why Bother? For Spiritual Exercise

A Conversation Between the Ascetic Father Makarios and Nikos Kazantzakis
 
 
 
 
The Services of Great Lent
 
 
 
 
 
 
Despite the War, Many of the Greek Soldiers in 1940 Kept the Fasts of the Church

Lent in Narnia

Your Brain During the Great Fast

A Lenten Lesson

Connecticut Diner Observes Orthodox Lent


Great Lent (General)

Lectionary for "The Ladder of Divine Ascent"

Sex and Great Lent

Money! Power! Honor!

Why Lent Must Rise Again

More Russians to Observe Great Lent

First Lady of Russia Observes Great Lent Even On Her Birthday



Clean Week

Clean Week Resource Page

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 1 - Clean Monday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 2 - Clean Tuesday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 3 - Clean Wednesday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 4 - Clean Thursday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 5 - Clean Friday

First Saturday of Great Lent: Epistle and Gospel Reading


Sunday of Orthodoxy

Sunday of Orthodoxy Resource Page


Second Week of Great Lent

The Second Week of Great Lent

St. Theodore the Studite: The Friday of the Second Week of Great Lent

The Second Salutations To The Theotokos

Akathist to the Theotokos Resource Page

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 6 - Monday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 7 - Tuesday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 8 - Wednesday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 9 - Thursday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 10 - Friday

Second Saturday of Great Lent: Epistle and Gospel Reading


Sunday of Saint Gregory Palamas

Sunday of Saint Gregory Palamas Resource Page


Third Week of Great Lent

The Third Week of Great Lent

St. Theodore the Studite: The Third Wednesday of Great Lent

St. Theodore the Studite: The Third Friday of Great Lent

The Third Salutations To The Theotokos

Akathist to the Theotokos Resource Page

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 11 - Monday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 12 - Tuesday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 13 - Wednesday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 14 - Thursday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 15 - Friday

Third Saturday of Great Lent: Epistle and Gospel Reading


Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross

Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross Resource Page


Fourth Week of Great Lent

The Fourth Week of Great Lent

Synaxis of All Saints of Rhodes

Sermon for the Fourth Wednesday of Great Lent

Sermon for the Fourth Friday of Great Lent

The Fourth Salutations To The Theotokos

Akathist to the Theotokos Resource Page

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 16 - Monday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 17 - Tuesday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 18 - Wednesday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 19 - Thursday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 20 - Friday

Fourth Saturday of Great Lent: Epistle and Gospel Reading


Sunday of Saint John Climacus

Sunday of Saint John Climacus Resource Page


Fifth Week of Great Lent

The Fifth Week of Great Lent

Joyful Sorrow and its Secret Fruits (Photios Kontoglou)

St. Theodore the Studite: Sermon for the Fifth Wednesday of Great Lent

Synaxarion For Thursday of the Great Canon

Saint Andrew of Crete Resource Page - The Great Canon

St. Theodore the Studite: Sermon for the Fifth Friday of Great Lent

Synaxarion for the Fifth Saturday of Great Lent

Akathist to the Theotokos Resource Page

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 21 - Monday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 22 - Tuesday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 23 - Wednesday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 24 - Thursday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 25 - Friday

Fifth Saturday of Great Lent (The Akathist Hymn): Epistle and Gospel Reading


Sunday of Saint Mary of Egypt

Sunday of Saint Mary of Egypt Resource Page


Sixth Week of Great Lent

The Sixth Week of Great Lent

Concerning the Final Week of Great Lent