Click here for the text of Vespers, Orthros, and the Divine Liturgy variables. Click here for the Typica service. (When reading Typica instead of attending Liturgy, you will need both the Typica and Divine Liturgy texts.) Theme The Sunday of the Prodigal Son is the second Sunday of the three week pre-Lenten period. The theme […]
The Pharisee and the Publican
The Triodion begins with the Pharisee and the Publican. Theme Humility and the correct observance of the teachings of God, observing without pride, and without looking down upon others. We are called to see ourselves as we truly are and compare ourselves to Christ’s teachings. Observance of the Week No fasting during this week (not […]
Theophany
By Fr. Patrick Reardon In the Christian East, the Baptism of our Lord is honored in the Church’s annual celebration of Theophany (commonly called Epiphany in the West) on January 6. This feast is celebrated, moreover, as the manifestation of God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This emphasis is clear in the troparion of […]
The Feast of the Entrance
Click here for the text of Vespers, Orthros, and the Divine Liturgy variables. Click here for the Typica service. (When reading Typica instead of attending Liturgy, you will need both the Typica and Divine Liturgy texts.) Reading According to the tradition of the Church, the Theotokos was brought to the Temple at three years of […]
The Protection of the Theotokos
Reading The Feast of the Protection commemorates the appearance of the most holy Theotokos in the Church of Blachernae in Constantinople in the tenth century, as recorded in the life of Saint Andrew the Fool for Christ’s sake. While the multitudes of the faithful were gathered in church, Epiphanius, the friend of Saint Andrew, through […]
The Nativity Fast, Advent
November 15/28 – December 24 – January 6 The rules of abstinence prescribed by the Church to follow during the Christmas Fast are similar to those prescribed during the Apostles’ Fast. It is clear that during the Fast we must abstain from meat and dairy products. Besides that, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays of the […]
Beheading of St. John the Baptist
Beheading of the Prophet and Baptist John – August 29 On August 29 in the Holy Orthodox Church we commemorate the beheading of the holy, honorable, glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John. Herod Antipas, son of the Herod who slew the young children in Bethlehem at the time of the Savior’s birth, ruled of […]
Fifth Sunday in Lent + St. Mary of Egypt
Thou didst sever with the sword of abstinence the snares of the soul and the passion of the body, O righteous one. And by the silence of asceticism thou didst choke the sins of thought. And by the stream of thy tears thou didst water the whole wilderness, bringing forth for us the fruits of […]
Cheesefare Sunday (Forgiveness Sunday)
O Lord, we were estranged before from paradise, because of eating from the tree. Therefore, lead us into it again by Thy Cross and by Thy Passion, my Savior and my God. Fortify us therein that we may fulfill our fast with becoming purity, and worship Thy divine Resurrection and Passover of salvation, by the […]
Sunday of the Prodigal Son
Sunday of the Prodigal Son When I disobeyed in ignorance thy fatherly glory, I wasted in iniquities the riches that thou gavest me. Wherefore, I cry to thee with the voice of the prodigal son, saying, I have sinned before thee, O compassionate Father, receive me repentant, and make me as one of thy hired […]
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