Source: legacyicons.com Later today, Great Lent will be over for this Year of the Lord 2026. We are on the eve of Lazarus Saturday and Pal...

  Source: wikipedia.org In the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts [catechumens] are prayed for with special fervor. This prayer has not lost...

  Source: oca.org Love between sinners is essentially expressed in forgiveness. There is no other way. It cannot be otherwise. Forgiveness i...

Source: unsplash.com As we begin the Second Week of the Fast, I am sharing some insightful and challenging passages for us to "meditate...

Source: oca.org Sabbath, the day of Creation, the day of [the goodness of] “this world,” became—in Christ—the day of expectation, the day be...

Source: svots.edu For too many people Lent means primarily, and almost exclusively, a change of diet, the compliance with ecclesiastical reg...

“ For if you cry out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding; and if you seek it as silver, and search diligently for it a...

  Sent to me by Mother Paula, an Orthodox nun who was once a member of our parish. + Fr. Thomas Hopko: MP’s notes from his homilies  During ...

Source: uncutmountainsupply.com GREAT LENT: Day One Nostalgia for Paradise The Sunday Before Great Lent is called Cheesefare Sunday, because...

  Source: uncutmountainsupply.com "Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me." Great Lent will begin on Monday, February 23; but a...

  Source: pixbay.com The gateway to divine repentance has been opened: let us enter eagerly, purified in our bodies and observing abstinence...

Source: orthodoxchristiansupply.com   St Basil's Liturgy: Deserving our Deepest Attention and Overwhelming Awe Dear Parish Faithful ...

  THE LENTEN EXILE This past Sunday immediately preceding the beginning of Lent recalled the Exile from Paradise, inviting us to embrace “ A...

  Dear Parish Faithful & Friends in Christ,  Great Lent is the   “school of repentance.”   It is roughly equivalent to an “annual tithe”...

Source: legacyicons.com   A Word About the Great Fast St. Theodore the Studite What is this struggle? Not to walk according to one’s own wil...

Source: uncutmountainsupply.com   Have I Ever Really 'Heard' the Parable of the Prodigal Son? Dear Parish Faithful & Friends in ...

    Dear Parish Faithful, 'Glory to Thee, O God, Glory to Thee' (3x) When the soul enters into the trial of spiritual aridity, or d...

  Dear Parish Faithful, People who grew up with phones—and even many older people who didn’t—can’t read a novel anymore, sit through a film ...