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Great Lent: A School of Repentance is a religious book by Alexander Schmemann. It provides an understanding of the real meaning of the Lenten season, and the need for repentance in Orthodox traditions.
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Forty meditations on Great Lent based on liturgical, scriptural and patristic texts.
Enhance your family's celebration of the Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church with this beautifully designed book. Written for all ages and illustrated with icons and more, the book brings alive each of the Twelve Great Feasts (plus Pascha, the Feast of Feasts) with hymns, traditions, Old and New Testament scriptures, explanations of the festal icon, and quotes from the Fathers. A wonderful companion as we journey through the liturgical calendar year after year, deepening our faith one feast at a time.
Each year we begin anew the journey to the radiant feast of Pascha, entering the season of repentance known as Great Lent. The homilies presented in this modest volume, from one of the spiritual giants of the Orthodox Church of Russia, can both encourage and inform us in this struggle of the Fast. For the first time a selection of St John's Lenten sermons is presented in English translation. They follow the thematic structure of the Lenten season in the Orthodox Church, from the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee through to Great and Holy Friday. A sermon for St Thomas Sunday, that follows Holy Pascha, is offered as an Epilogue.
A daily prayer book following the Tradition of the Russian Orthodox Church. This book is ideal for daily personal use. Included are Morning and Evening Prayers; Prayers at Meals: Akathists to our Sweetest Jesus Christ and our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God; Canon of Preparation for Holy Communion; Thanksgiving after Holy Communion; and The Order for Reading Canons and Akathists When Alone.
“Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html The book of Professor Hegumen Philip (Simonov) brought to the attention of the reader is the first experience in Russian literature of interpreting the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete , which opens the doors of Great Lent to Orthodox Christians and introduces them to the meaning of penitential work. The reader will not find an easy entertaining reading in it: the book is intended for an inquisitive mind who wants to deepen his knowledge of the realities and theological premises of the Old and New Testaments, with which St. Andrew so generously sows the spiritual field of repentance and which often present certain difficulties for the modern reader. basis of patristic interpretations of Holy Scripture and is focused on a wide range of readers who are not indifferent to their spiritual life, striving to enter deeper into the meaning of Orthodox worship and organize their prayer life with responsibility during the days of Great Lent, preparing themselves for the Paschal joy - meeting with the Risen Christ. I also loved this commandment of love very much and, not content with the creations of the divinely inspired fathers, I set out to write down my own tongue-tied speeches, for if it turns out to be useful even for one brother, I will be rewarded from the Lord for my work. If I am unworthy of benefiting another, then even in this case I will not lose my reward, but, thinking over and diligently studying what I am writing about, I will awaken at least my own wretched soul from great insensibility. If anyone understands this scripture, this will be reward for work. Joseph Hesychast