Great Lent: A School of Repentance. Its Meaning for Orthodox Christians
Its Meaning for Orthodox Christians
by The Rt. Rev. Alexander Schmemann
DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA
New York 1970
Second Printing 1977
Alexander Schmemann
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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
FOOTNOTES
LENTEN PAMPHLETS
