The Week of the Palms
The Sixth and last week of Lent is called “The Week of the Palms.” For six days preceding Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday, the liturgy of the Church makes us Read more…
The Sixth and last week of Lent is called “The Week of the Palms.” For six days preceding Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday, the liturgy of the Church makes us Read more…
May God bless you as we complete the Lenten season and enter into our journey with Christ and His apostles to His passion and voluntary death on the cross.
It is a wonderful tradition in many Orthodox Churches to have a service of Holy Unction during Great Lent and so we will replace the earlier announced services of Pre-sanctified Read more…
This week’s quote from our study book is: ‘We are in Mid-Lent. On the one hand, the physical and spiritual effort, if it is serious and consistent, begins to be Read more…
‘We know that prayer in and of itself cannot save us, but carrying it out before God can. For when the Lord’s eyes are upon us He sanctifies us, as Read more…
‘The Fathers often compared Lent to the forty years journey of the chosen people through the desert. From the Bible we know that in order to keep His people from Read more…
O Lord and Master of my life! Take from me the spirit of sloth, faint-heartedness, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience, Read more…
It will be Meatfare in just a few days. The wonderful meals are something to look forward to, but we also need to keep in mind that it can be Read more…
As part of Lenten almsgiving, we had the opportunity to participate in the Coldest Night of the Year on February 25th – a Canada-wide winter walk fundraiser that supports the hungry, homeless, and Read more…
In the Orthodox Church, this Psalm is sung during Lent to remind us to keep fresh the knowledge of what we have fallen from, how alien we are to the Read more…