Great Lent Resource Page

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About Great Lent

 

Great Lent (Elder Epiphanios Theodoropoulos)

 
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 Mystical Journey of the Christian, Through the Desert, Towards the Resurrection and Pentecost (1 of 5)

 

The Mystical Journey of the Christian, Through the Desert, Towards the Resurrection and Pentecost (2 of 5)

 

The Mystical Journey of the Christian, Through the Desert, Towards the Resurrection and Pentecost (3 of 5)

 

The Mystical Journey of the Christian, Through the Desert, Towards the Resurrection and Pentecost (4 of 5)

The Mystical Journey of the Christian, Through the Desert, Towards the Resurrection and Pentecost (5 of 5)

 

The Services of Great Lent

 

Great Lent Is An Extraordinary Time To Learn To Truly Pray

The Liturgical Richness of Great Lent

Scripture Readings for Weekdays of Great Lent

 

An Interpretation of the Lenten Prayer of Saint Ephraim the Syrian (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

The Lenten Prayer of Saint Ephraim Explained

Sloth: The Foundation of Wickedness

 

Great Compline in the Worship of Great Lent

Meditation on the Service of Great Compline

The Spirituality of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete

Alexandros Papadiamantis and the Great Canon

The Oldest Hymn To the Theotokos

Presanctified Liturgy Resource Page

Akathist to the Theotokos Resource Page

Great Lent in Fourth Century Jerusalem


The Fast of Great Lent

Advice for Healthy Fasting During Great Lent

Great Lent: A Time of Hunger and Temptation

Great Lent Imitates the Fast of Christ

Why Jesus Fasted After His Baptism

The Holy Forty Day Fast

Great Lent in Fourth Century Jerusalem

 

The Fragrant Paschal Egg of Saint Iakovos Tsalikes  

Elder Paisios and the Boiled Milk During Lent

The Forty Day Fast of Saint Paisios the Athonite for the World

Metropolitan George of Paphos Interviewed Concerning the Fast of Great Lent

Why Lent Must Rise Again

"You Feed on Men's Flesh and Blood"

St. Theodore the Studite: On Fasting and Dispassion

Concerning the Christians Who Were Massacred in Bulgaria During the Holy Lent, On Account of Meat-eating

Saint Patrick and the Flesh-Meat that Changed into Fishes

Concerning the Diet of the Fathers

On our Accomplishing the Days of the Fast Gently and Readily in the Hope of Life Without End

The Man of God From Judah

Fasting Rules For Annunciation and Palm Sunday

 

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

 

Homily Nine on the Passion (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily Ten on the Passion (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily Eleven on the Passion (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily Twelve on the Passion (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily Thirteen on the Passion (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily Fourteen on the Passion (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily Fifteen on the Passion (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily Sixteen on the Passion (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily Seventeen on the Passion (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily Eighteen on the Passion (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily Twenty-Six on the Passion (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily Twenty-Seven on the Passion (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 
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

 

The Week Before Holy Week and our Journey Towards Jerusalem

A Time for Silence

As We Prepare to Consciously Participate in the Passion of Christ

Insights on True Repentance

Repentance, the Fourth Mystery

The Priesthood, Confession and the Remission of Sins

Having Completed the Forty Days That Profit Our Souls

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

The Exorcism of a Greek-American Immigrant

 

A Prayer Written by Elder Ephraim of Arizona from the Friday Before Palm Sunday in 1980

 
A Reflection for the End of Great Lent

 

Reflection for the Last Day of Great Lent (St. Theophan the Recluse)

 
Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 26 - Monday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 27 - Tuesday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 28 - Wednesday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 29 - Thursday

Old Testament Readings for Great Lent: Day 30 - Friday

"For thirty-nine days they waged this hard battle, 

and on the fortieth day the sufferer breathed the air of freedom."