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Great Lent - Alexander Schmemann
Alexander Schmemann
Great Lent: A School of Repentance. Its Meaning for Orthodox Christians
EAN 8596547018452
DigiCat, 2022
Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info
Table of Contents
GREAT LENT
SUNDAYS OF PREPARATION
1. Humility
2. Return to the Father
3. The Last Judgment
4. Forgiveness
LENTEN WORSHIP
1. The Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete
2. The Prayer of St. Ephrem the Syrian
4. The Lenten Hymns
5. The Psalter
6. The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
7. Liturgical Music and Vestments
8. Saturdays and Sundays of Lent
HOW CAN WE KEEP GREAT LENT?
1. Fasting
2. Prayer
3. Spiritual Reading
4. Change of Life
LENTEN PAMPHLETS
GREAT LENT
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THE TIME OF REPENTANCE
Brethren, while fasting bodily, let us also fast spiritually; let us loosen every bond of injustice; let us destroy the strong fetters of violence; let us tear up every unjust writing; let us give bread to the hungry and let us welcome the homeless poor to our houses, that from Christ our God we may receive the great mercy.
(Stichira, Wednesday of the First Week)
We are approaching again the Great Lent—the time of repentance, the time of our reconciliation with God. Repentance is the beginning and also the