This Week
We are getting closer to Holy Week and events are starting to pick up speed. Before we know it things will take on a life of their own. I usually tell the faith...
Tag: Liturgy
5th Sunday of Great Lent ~ St. Mary of Egypt
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal of the First Tone Let us worship the Word who is unoriginate * with the Father and the Spirit, and from a Virgin was bo...
Love…
I will admit at the start of this post that I am watching the Red Sox opener at Fenway while writing so I might be a little distracted. The last word in the phr...
Condition of our Soul
Maybe not the best title for this post but I did not know what else to use. In the Liturgy of St. Basil, right before the Our Father we hear this prayer read by...
Faith…
Fr. Greg continues his look at the Greek translation of the phrase Approach in the fear of God with faith and with love. What is this faith that we speak of? Do...
Some Greek help
Fr. Greg has some helpful insights on the word fear as would have been used in the original Greek Liturgy. Thanks Father for your help! Now let’s look at ...
From the Presanctified Liturgy
In you are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, O God of mysteries beyond our sight and speech! You revealed the ministry of this liturgy to us, and then ...
Saturday of Souls
I should have posted this two weeks ago but it slipped my mind. In some Churches each Saturday during Lent is celebrated as a Saturday of Souls. Here is some in...
Sunday of Orthodoxy ~ 1st Sunday of Great Lent
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the First ToneThe stone had been secured with a seal by the Judeans, * and a guard of soldiers was watching Your immaculate body. ...