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The Lenten Spring is once again upon us, and with it the promise of renewal. In the dead of winter, the vibrance and vitality of spring seem impossibly far off. And yet underneath its frozen surface, the earth stirs and strives irresistibly toward its yearly resurrection.
You may now submit the names of departed Orthodox Christian whom you wish the monks to commemorate daily during Great Lent at the many pannykhidas, litias, and Divine Liturgies.
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We begin the Lenten Fast with hymns reminding us of our lost Paradise. God created us in His image and likeness and called us to be in communion with Him. The purpose of our creation is to become gods by grace. Adam and Eve were tempted by the devil and deceived into thinking that deification could come through other means than the way God provided for them.
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Pre-Lenten celebrations should be prayerful and sober, mindful of the suffering of our Orthodox brethren in Ukraine, says the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.
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We live in biblical times. Pestilence, earthquakes, wars and rumors of wars; distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth (Lk. 21:25-6); iniquity abounds and the love of many grows cold. And yet in spite of it all, Christ tells us: Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world (Jn. 16:33).
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