Lenten Meditations
Sundays Approaching Great Lent
Days during Great Lent and Holy Week
Catechesis
Lenten Lectionary
Prayers and Services commonly or exclusively used in Great Lent
Hierarchal Lenten Epistles
Hierarchal Paschal Epistles
Fasting
Rubrics, Typicon
Miscellaneous Articles
Stories
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- The First Week of Great Lent - Clean Monday
- Clean Wednesday
- The First Week of Great Lent - Clean Friday
- O Lord and Master of my life... The Prayer of St Ephrem explained.
An Anthem for Great Lent and all of Life.
Meditation on Psalm 10, the Prokeimenon, in the Sixth Hour
THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR OUR UNREPENTANT HEARTS
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- Questions about the Publican and the Pharisee
- Sunday of the Prodigal Son
- Synaxarion for the Sunday of the Last Judgment
- Prayer on the Sunday of the Last Judgment
- Meatfare Week, Meatfare Saturday and the Commemoration of the Departed
- Sunday of Meatfare or of the Last Judgment
- Synaxarion of Forgiveness Sunday
- Saturday before Cheesefare
- Cheesefare Sunday
- Thoughts At The Threshold Of The Holy Great Lenten Fast And The Prayer Of The Publican
- Questions and answers concerning Forgiveness Sunday
- The Desert Fathers on Fasting
Sunday of Zacchaeus
- Homilies on the Sunday of Zacchaeus
Publican and the Pharisee
- Homilies on the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee
The Sunday of the Prodigal Son
- Homilies on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son
S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers
The Sunday of the Last Judgment
- Homilies on the Sunday of the Last Judgment (Meatfare)
Meatfare Sunday
S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers
S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers
The Sunday Of Forgiveness
- Homilies on the Sunday of Forgiveness (Cheesefare)
Commemoration of the Ascetics
S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers
S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers
Archbishop Averky Of Syracuse
- The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete - a Short Explanation
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- Meditation on Psalm 10, the Prokeimenon, in the Sixth Hour
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- Homily of Holy New Hieromartyr Tikhon, Metropolitan of Moscow
- The Sunday of Orthodoxy
- Prayer on the First Sunday Great Lent
- The Word "Anathema" and it's meaning - by Saint John Maximovitch
- What is an Anathema? - by Bishop Theophan the Recluse
- True Orthodoxy
- What is Orthodoxy?
- What is Ecumenism
- Synaxarion for the Second Sunday of Great Lent
- Pearls from St Gregory Palamas
- Gleanings from the Fathers concerning the Paralytic
- The Second Week of Great Lent
- Synaxarion for the Third Sunday of Great Lent
- Questions about the Sunday of the Cross
- Prayers for Sunday of the Holy Cross (3rd Sunday of Lent)
- Gleanings from the Holy Fathers about the Cross
- An Explanation of the Russian Orthodox Three-Bar Cross
- Why do we wear a cross?
- St John Maximovitch on The Exaltation of the Precious Cross
- Explanation of the Cross Which we Wear about the Shoulders on a Cord.
- St John Climacus and the Ladder of Divine Ascent
- Prayer for the 4th Sunday of Lent
- The Fourth Week of Great Lent
- Synaxarion for the Fifth Sunday of Great Lent
- Questions about St. Mary of Egypt
- The Life of our Holy Mother Mary of Egypt - From The Great Canon, the Work of Saint Andrew of Crete
- Life of St Mary of Egypt - "By the numbers"
- Synaxarion - Fifth Sunday of Great Lent - St Mary of Egypt
- Prayer on the Fifth Sunday of Great Lent
- Thoughts on Lazarus Saturday - the resurrection of Lazarus, the four days dead, of Bethany
- Lazarus Saturday - the resurrection is NOW (mp3)
- Questions about Lazarus Saturday
- Kontakion On the Raising of Lazarus
- Prayer on the Saturday of the Righteous Lazarus
- A Trebnic Prayer on Holy Thursday
- Holy Saturday
- See our PASCHA Page for the materials concerning Holy Feast.
The First Week of Great Lent - Clean Week
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Clean Monday
The Great Canon As Said on Clean Monday, suitable for printing, in large print with Rubrics in Red, and the parts of the choir and reader clearly marked.
Clean Tuesday
Clean Wednesday
The Lord is righteous and hath loved righteousness; upon uprightness hath His countenance looked.
The Great Canon As Said on Clean Wednesday
Clean Thursday
First Sunday of Great Lent
- Homilies on the First Sunday of Great Lent - Sunday of Orthodoxy
Sunday of Orthodoxy, 1903
A Sermon by Archbishop Averky - 1971
by +ARCHBISHOP AVERKY of Syracuse and Holy Trinity Monastery
By Archbishop Averky of Syracuse and Holy Trinity Monastery
by Fr John Moses
Second Sunday of Great Lent
- Homilies on the Second Sunday of Great Lent
The Gospel read on this Sunday
S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers
Third Sunday of Great Lent - the Precious Cross
- Homilies on the Third Sunday of Great Lent
The Precious Cross
From the Church of the Nativity, Erie PA
Fourth Sunday of Great Lent
- Homilies on the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent
A Sermon by Blessed Metroplitan Philaret
S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers
Fifth Sunday of Great Lent - St Mary of Egypt
- Homilies on the Fifth Sunday of Great Lent
St Mary of Egypt
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Lazarus Saturday
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by St. Romanos the Melodist
Palm Sunday
- Homilies on Palm Sunday
Holy Thursday
Holy Friday
Holy Friday
at the Tomb
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Holy Friday
at the Tomb
2002
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Holy Saturday
The Resurrection makes the Impossible Possible!
2002
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Pascha
- Orthodox Christian Fasting, by St John Chrysostom
- The Desert Fathers on Fasting
- Orthodox Christianity: Questions about fasting
- Orthodox Christianity: Questions about the Great Canon of St Andrew
- Questions about the last week of Great Lent
- 10 Questions about Lenten Services - Volume 1
- Questions about holy week
- Questions about Jesus' appearances after the resurrection.
- Questions about Bright week
- Lenten Lectionary for all Six weeks of Great Lent and Holy Week.
- Great Compline in HTML, PDF and RTF formats
- The Prayer of St Ephraim the Syrian - PDF format
- Prayers at the beginning of the Holy Forty Day Fast
- Prayer to the Lord Jesus Christ, Crucified
- Service Of Supplication For the Conversion of Those Who Have Departed into Error. To be sung on the Sunday of Orthodoxy and on other needful occasions
- The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete - a Short Explanation
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- RTF Format
- PDF Format
- RTF Format
- PDF Format
- RTF Format
- PDF Format
- RTF Format
- HTML - Liturgical English
- PDF Format - Liturgical English
- RTF Format - Liturgical English
- "Jordanville Edition" (uses "Thee and Thou" in referring to God and the Saints, and "You and Your" when referring to himself).
- The Life of our Holy Mother Mary of Egypt - From The Great Canon, the Work of Saint Andrew of Crete
- The Life of our Holy Mother Mary of Egypt - From The Great Canon, the Work of Saint Andrew of Crete
Four prayers on a page, suitable to print out, and cut into quarters.
Page of English, Page 2 of Slavonic
The perfect size to fit in a prayer book. OTHER FORMATS rtf
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The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete
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As chanted on Monday of the first Week
As chanted on Tuesday of the first Week
As chanted on Wednesday of the first Week
As chanted on Thursday of the first Week
As chanted on Thursday of the Fifth Week
PDF edition
Uses Liturgical English Also in PDF RTF
The "Jordanville Edition", which does not use liturgical English.
- AN ADDRESS of the Most Reverend Tikhon, Bishop of the Aleutian Islands and of North America on Orthodoxy Sunday
- Great Lenten Epistle 2000 - His Eminence, Metropolitan Vitaly
- Paschal Epistle of Saint John Maximovitch 1956
- Paschal Epistle of Metropolitan Anastasy - 1940
- Paschal Epistle of Blessed Metropolitan Philaret - 1982
- Paschal Epistle of Metropolitan Vitaly 1997
- Paschal Epistle of Metropolitan Vitaly 1998
- Metropolitan Cyprian's Paschal Encyclical - 1999
- The Serbian Orthodox Church to Her Spiritual Children at Pascha, 1999
- ON FASTING
- By the Waters of Babylon, The Great Fast, Our Exile
- Fasting Rules
- Great Lent Fasting Typicon according to the Orthodox Western Rite
- Olive Oil Usage
- Fasting and "Oil" days
Fr Seraphim Rose 1965
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- Great Lent Fasting Typicon according to the Orthodox Western Rite
- Dates of Great Lent and Pascha through 2010
- Vespers on Wednesdays and Fridays of Great Lent when the Presanctified Liturgy is not served
- The Order Of Divine Services Supplementary Texts
- Presanctified Liturgy question - Why is the curtain left half open?
- Preparation for Great Lent
Additions to the Order of Divine Services published by St John of Kronstadt Press
This is a large PDF File with Two sections:
Supplement 1 - Lenten Services during the Lesser Fasts
Supplement 2 - The Saturday Requiem Service
S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers
- Common date for Pascha
An article detailing the efforts of Lutheran and Orthodox Ecumenists to have a common date for Pascha and commentary about some of the incredible things said in it.
- THE BISHOP
by Anton Chekhov
- Irish Lent!
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