Lenten Prayer
O great Lord and God! You have led us from corruption to imperishable life through the life-giving death of Your Christ. So, now, deliver our senses from the mo...
Tag: Lent
Ten Tips for Great Lent
1. Regardless of how you fast, fast every single day. This type of fasting helps wear down the passions and build spiritual endurance. 2. Know exactly what the ...
Archbishop Nicolae ~ Meditation on the Beginning of Great Lent
Before the Feast of the Lord’s Resurrection the Holy Church has established a period of seven weeks of fasting. More precisely we should say that there are six ...
Saturday of Lazarus
Lazarus Saturday is the day before Palm Sunday (the feast of Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem). This Saturday and Sunday are the connection between...
Prayer of St. Mary of Egypt
“O Sovereign Lady, who didst bear God in the flesh, I know that I should not dare to look upon thine icon, thou who are pure in soul and body, because, de...
Sermon for the Second Sunday of Lent ~ Your Faith Has Made You Well
All of us at one time or another in our life, we have been sick and have gone to the doctor. For some of us we needed the lifesaving skill of the doctor of the ...
The Prayer of St. Ephrem
O Lord of my life, take away from me the spirit of laziness, faintheartedness, ambition and idle talk. But grant me rather the spirit of chastity, humility, pat...
Sunday of Orthodoxy Vespers
Sunday of Orthodoxy Icon Last night, clergy and laity from the 12 Orthodox Churches in our area joined together to celebrate the Sunday of Orthodoxy. The first ...
Archbishop Nicolae’s Meditation for the Sunday of Orthodoxy
We all know that the first Sunday of Great Lent is called the Sunday of Orthodoxy and that it was instituted in the year 843, at the end of the period of the Ec...
The Lenten Fast
I often get questions this time of year about the Orthodox practice of fasting during Great Lent. Fr. Oliver Herbel on his Red River Orthodox Blog has pos...