You are Welcome to join in any Tuesday that works for you. Each Tuesday will be a stand-alone class. Feel free to invite anyone you think might be interested. Join in with them or just check out a class or two yourself. This course will run for the duration of Great Lent, to allow us Read more...
We also commemorate Saint Titus the Wonderworker displayed zeal for the monastic life from his youth. He pursued asceticism in the ninth century at the Studion monastery near Constantinople. By his deeds of fasting, purity of life and mild disposition, Saint Titus gained the love of the brethren, and at their request he was ordained Read more...
The Fourth Sunday of Lent is dedicated to Saint John of the Ladder (Climacus). He is the author of the work, The Ladder of Divine Ascent...Complete by clicking: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/04/03/16-4th-sunday-of-great-lent-st-john-climacus-of-the-ladder
Saint Zosimas (April 4) was a monk at a certain Palestinian monastery on the outskirts of Caesarea. Having dwelt at the monastery since his childhood, he lived there in asceticism until he reached the age of fifty-three...click link to continue reading https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2022/04/10/18-5th-sunday-of-great-lent-st-mary-of-egypt
The paschal season of the Church is preceded by the season of Great Lent, which is also preceded by its own liturgical preparation. The first sign of the approach of Great Lent comes five Sundays before its beginning. On this Sunday the Gospel reading is about Zacchaeus the tax-collector. It tells how Christ brought salvation Read more...
The Sunday after the Sunday of Zacchaeus is devoted to the Publican and the Pharisee. At Vespers the night before, the Triodion (the liturgical book used in the services of Great Lent) begins... click to read more: https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/02/05/2-sunday-of-the-publican-and-the-pharisee-embeginning-of-the-lente
The Sunday after the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee is the Sunday of the Prodigal Son. This parable of God’s forgiveness calls us to “come to ourselves” as did the prodigal son, to see ourselves as being “in a far country” far from the Father’s house, and to make the journey of return Read more...
