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St. Leo the Great on Great Lent  |  Historical Development of Lent and Fasting  |  A Lenten Discipline  |  Making Good Use of Great Lent  |  Orthodox Lent: A Feast for the Soul  |  Orthodoxy Sunday  |  Suggestions for Great Lent  |  A Thought for Lent  |  A Lenten Message  |  Great Lent  |  Keeping Lent at Home: A Parent's Perspective  |  Lent: A Time of Decision  |  Life's Greatest Gain or Loss  |  A Lenten Meditation from Metropolitan Antony  |  Forgiveness: Doorway to Great Lent

Resources for Great Lent: The Great Fast of Preparation - From the Monachos.Net website of Matthew C. Steenberg. 

A Family Lesson: How Will We Prepare for Pascha? - By Phyllis Meshel Onest, M.Div. Based on an article in The Orthodox Servant, the newsletter of the Department of Religious Education, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, March 1992.

The Great Lent - A week by week meaning, by the Rev. George Mastrantonis. Includes a week by week description of the Great Lent, the Institute of Lent, the origin of fasting, the further development of fasting, the meaning of the feast days of Lent, the four preparatory weeks Before Lent, the seven Sundays of the Great Lent, and the significance of Lent.

The Great Lent - From the Cathedral Church of St. John the Baptist (ROCOR), Washington, DC.

Sunday of Orthodoxy - Homily given by His Grace Bishop Demetri on February 28, 1999, Sunday of Orthodoxy Celebration In Indianapolis, IN.

Great Lent and Pascha - Homilies, catechesis, prayers, etc. from the web site of St Nicholas Orthodox Church (ROCOR), Dallas, TX

Great Lent and Pascha - Resources from the web site of St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church (ROCOR), Dallas, TX. Some selections:

The Order Of The Hierarchical Presanctified Divine Liturgy - From the web site of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of America-Midwest Region.

Orthodox Ministry ACCESS Guide to Great Lent - From the web site of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Ministry ACCESS.

Holy Week in the Eastern Orthodox Church - A Daily Account of the Solemn Services During Holy Week in the Eastern Orthodox Church, by the Rev. George Mastrantonis, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.

The Akathist Hymn to our Sweetest Lord Jesus Christ

A Lenten Reflection For College Students - By Fr. George Alberts. From SOLIA - The Herald - March 1997. From The Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America, Orthodox Church in America.

First Sunday of Great Lent / Triumph of Orthodoxy - Sermon delivered at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Boston, MA, March 8, 1998 / Pan-Orthodox Vespers, by + Theodosius, Archbishop of Washington, DC, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America.

If You Cannot Forgive, You Cannot Love - By Rev. Fr. Leo Copacia. From SOLIA - The Herald - February 1999. From The Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America, Orthodox Church in America.

Lectionary of Lenten Readings for Weekday Services - A formatted collection of Old Testament readings for Great Lent, organized by week. The text from the Septuagint Old Testament.

The Life of Our Holy Mother, St Mary of Egypt - By St Sophronius. 

On Admonition and Repentance - Sermon by St. Ephraim the Syrian. From the NewAdvent Catholic web site.

On the Flesh of Christ - By Tertullian. This was written in refutation of certain heretics who denied the reality of christ's flesh, or at least its identity with human flesh, fearing that, if they admitted the reality of christ's flesh, they must also admit His resurrection in the flesh and, consequently, the resurrection of the human body after death. From the NewAdvent Catholic web site.

On Repentance - By Tertullian. From the NewAdvent Catholic web site.

On Repentance That Leads to joy: the Spirituality of St. John Klimakos (Climacus) - By Matthew C. Steenberg. You will need the SPIonic Greek font in order to properly view the Greek passages cited in this document. There is a link just below the title that will pop open a small window so that you can download the font in a Mac or Windows format.

The Paschal Homily of Our Father among the Saints John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople - From the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.

St. Leo the Great on Lent - From the web site of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of America, Midwest Region.

Triumph of Orthodoxy: On the Holy Icons - By St Gregory Palamas. A discussion on the veneration of divine icons from his New Testament Decalogue. 

Three Fragments from the Homily on the Cross and Passion of Christ  - By St. Methodius, Bishop of Olympus in Lycia. Date of birth unknown; died a martyr, probably in 311. From the NewAdvent Catholic web site.

Fasting From Iniquities and Foods - By the Rev. George Mastrantonis, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.

Fasting - From the Cathedral Church of St. John the Baptist (ROCOR), Washington, DC.

From a Lenten Siberian Cookbook - This is from the Introduction to Lenten Cuisine, a Russian cookbook compiled by N.G. Gorelova, M.V. Prokhorova, L.M. Khaslavskaya, Novosibirsk, 1993.

Lenten Fasting - From the web site of the Orthodox Church in America.

A Great Fast is the Harbinger of a Great Feast: There is a Difference between Easter and Pascha! - By Frederica Mathewes-Green. This article appeared in the February 1999 issue of The Orthodox Church, the monthly publication of the Orthodox Church in America.

On Fasting - By Tertullian. From the NewAdvent Catholic web site.

St. John Chrysostom on Fasting

Some Reflections on Fasting for Great Lent - By Dr. John L. Boojamra. From the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.

The Discipline of Fasting - By Bishop Kallistos (Ware). From the web site of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of America-Midwest Region.