Lenten Meditations
Sundays Approaching Great Lent
Days during Great Lent and Holy Week
Catechesis
Lenten Lectionary
Prayers and Services commonly or exclusively used in Great Lent
Hierarchal Lenten Epistles
Hierarchal Paschal Epistles
Fasting
Rubrics, Typicon
Miscellaneous Articles
Stories
VERY Serious!

Lenten Meditations

The First Week of Great Lent - Clean Monday
An Anthem for Great Lent and all of Life.

Clean Wednesday

Meditation on Psalm 10, the Prokeimenon, in the Sixth Hour

The First Week of Great Lent - Clean Friday

THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR OUR UNREPENTANT HEARTS

O Lord and Master of my life... The Prayer of St Ephrem explained.

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Sundays Approaching Great Lent

1st Sunday before Great Lent (Word DOC format)
Sunday Of Zacchaeus
1 Tim:4-9-15, Luke 19:1-10
1999

1st Sunday before Great Lent (HTML format)

Sunday Of Zacchaeus
2001

1st Sunday before Great Lent (Word DOC format)

Zacchaeus Sunday
2002

1st Sunday before Great Lent (mp3 format)

Sunday Of Zaccheaus
2007

2nd Sunday before Great Lent (Word DOC format)

Sunday Of The Publican And Pharisee
1999

Publican and the Pharisee

The Sunday of the Prodigal Son

3rd Sunday before Great Lent (Word DOC format)
Sunday Of The Prodigal Son
1997

3rd Sunday before Great Lent (mp3 format)

The Prodigal Son
2007

Sunday of the Prodigal Son

S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers

The Sunday of the Last Judgment

The Sunday Of Forgiveness

5th Sunday before Great Lent (Word DOC format)
Sunday Of Forgiveness
1999

5th Sunday before Great Lent (mp3 format)

Forgiveness Sunday And Cheesefare Sunday
2007

Synaxarion of Forgiveness Sunday

Saturday before Cheesefare

Commemoration of the Ascetics
S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers

Cheesefare Sunday

S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers

Thoughts At The Threshold Of The Holy Great Lenten Fast And The Prayer Of The Publican

Archbishop Averky Of Syracuse

Questions and answers concerning Forgiveness Sunday

The Desert Fathers on Fasting


Days during Great Lent and Holy Week

The First Week of Great Lent - Clean Week

The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete - a Short Explanation
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Clean Monday

The Great Canon As Said on Clean Monday, suitable for printing, in large print with Rubrics in Red, and the parts of the choir and reader clearly marked.

Clean Tuesday

The Great Canon As Said on Clean Tuesday

Clean Wednesday

Meditation on Psalm 10, the Prokeimenon, in the Sixth Hour
The Lord is righteous and hath loved righteousness; upon uprightness hath His countenance looked.

The Great Canon As Said on Clean Wednesday

Clean Thursday

The Great Canon As Said on Clean Thursday

First Sunday of Great Lent

1st Sunday of Great Lent (HTML format)
Before Zacchaeus
2002
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1st Sunday of Great Lent (HTML format)

Triumph Orthodoxy Come And See
2002

1st Sunday of Great Lent (mp3 format)

Triumph Of Orthodoxy
2004

1st Sunday of Great Lent (mp3 format)

Triumph Orthodoxy
2004

1st Sunday of Great Lent (mp3 format)

Triumph Of Orthodoxy
2007

Homily of Holy New Hieromartyr Tikhon, Metropolitan of Moscow

Sunday of Orthodoxy, 1903

The Sunday of Orthodoxy

A Sermon by Archbishop Averky - 1971

Prayer on the First Sunday Great Lent

The Word "Anathema" and it's meaning - by Saint John Maximovitch

What is an Anathema? - by Bishop Theophan the Recluse

True Orthodoxy

by +ARCHBISHOP AVERKY of Syracuse and Holy Trinity Monastery

What is Orthodoxy?

By Archbishop Averky of Syracuse and Holy Trinity Monastery

What is Ecumenism

by Fr John Moses

Second Sunday of Great Lent

Third Sunday of Great Lent - the Precious Cross

Fourth Sunday of Great Lent

Fifth Sunday of Great Lent - St Mary of Egypt

Lazarus Saturday

Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday
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Palm Sunday
2002
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Holy Thursday

Holy Friday

Holy Friday
at the Tomb
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Holy Friday
at the Tomb
2002
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Holy Saturday

Holy Saturday
The Resurrection makes the Impossible Possible!
2002
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Pascha


Catechesis

Orthodox Christian Fasting, by St John Chrysostom

The Desert Fathers on Fasting

Orthodox Christianity: Questions about fasting

Orthodox Christianity: Questions about the Great Canon of St Andrew

Questions about the last week of Great Lent

10 Questions about Lenten Services - Volume 1

Questions about holy week

Questions about Jesus' appearances after the resurrection.

Questions about Bright week


Lenten Lectionary

Lenten Lectionary for all Six weeks of Great Lent and Holy Week.

Prayers and Services commonly or exclusively used in Great Lent

Great Compline in HTML, PDF and RTF formats

The Prayer of St Ephraim the Syrian - PDF format

Four prayers on a page, suitable to print out, and cut into quarters.
Page of English, Page 2 of Slavonic
The perfect size to fit in a prayer book. OTHER FORMATS rtf  

Prayers at the beginning of the Holy Forty Day Fast

Prayer to the Lord Jesus Christ, Crucified

The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete

The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete - a Short Explanation
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As chanted on Monday of the first Week

As chanted on Tuesday of the first Week

As chanted on Wednesday of the first Week

As chanted on Thursday of the first Week

As chanted on Thursday of the Fifth Week


Hierarchal Lenten Epistles

AN ADDRESS of the Most Reverend Tikhon, Bishop of the Aleutian Islands and of North America on Orthodoxy Sunday

Great Lenten Epistle 2000 - His Eminence, Metropolitan Vitaly


Hierarchal Paschal Epistles

Paschal Epistle of Saint John Maximovitch 1956

Paschal Epistle of Metropolitan Anastasy - 1940

Paschal Epistle of Blessed Metropolitan Philaret - 1982

Paschal Epistle of Metropolitan Vitaly 1997

Paschal Epistle of Metropolitan Vitaly 1998

Metropolitan Cyprian's Paschal Encyclical - 1999

The Serbian Orthodox Church to Her Spiritual Children at Pascha, 1999


Fasting

ON FASTING

By the Waters of Babylon, The Great Fast, Our Exile

Fr Seraphim Rose 1965 Other formats: WORD    PDF  

Fasting Rules

Great Lent Fasting Typicon according to the Orthodox Western Rite

Olive Oil Usage

Fasting and "Oil" days


Rubrics, Typicon

Great Lent Fasting Typicon according to the Orthodox Western Rite

Dates of Great Lent and Pascha through 2010

Vespers on Wednesdays and Fridays of Great Lent when the Presanctified Liturgy is not served

The Order Of Divine Services Supplementary Texts

Additions to the Order of Divine Services published by St John of Kronstadt Press
This is a large PDF File with Two sections:
Supplement 1 - Lenten Services during the Lesser Fasts
Supplement 2 - The Saturday Requiem Service

Presanctified Liturgy question - Why is the curtain left half open?

Preparation for Great Lent

S. V. Bulgakov, Handbook for Church Servers

Miscellaneous Articles

Common date for Pascha
An article detailing the efforts of Lutheran and Orthodox Ecumenists to have a common date for Pascha and commentary about some of the incredible things said in it.

Stories

THE BISHOP
by Anton Chekhov

VERY Serious!

Irish Lent!