The Divine Liturgy, sacraments, feasts, fasts, and the rhythms of the Church year
Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness – St. Matthew 4:1–11 “Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.” v.1 As we step across the threshold of the Great Lent, the Church places before us the account of our Lord’s forty days of fasting and His threefold…
On the Service of Reconciliation and why forgiveness is the first step of the Great Lent Every year, on the first Monday of the Great Lent, the Indian Orthodox Church does something remarkable. Before a single day of fasting has been completed, before the long weeks of prayer and abstinence have even begun, the Church…
