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    Great Lent: A School of Repentance. Its Meaning for Orthodox Christians
    Great Lent: A School of Repentance. Its Meaning for Orthodox Christians
    Great Lent: A School of Repentance. Its Meaning for Orthodox Christians
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    Great Lent: A School of Repentance. Its Meaning for Orthodox Christians

    By Alexander Schmemann

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    Great Lent: A School of Repentance is a religious book by Alexander Schmemann. It provides an understanding of the real meaning of the Lenten season, and the need for repentance in Orthodox traditions.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateMay 29, 2022
    ISBN8596547018452
    Great Lent: A School of Repentance. Its Meaning for Orthodox Christians

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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

      Table of Contents

      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

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