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During the first four days of Great Lent, at the evening services, we read the Canon of St. Andrew of Crete. The Great Canon is one of the treasures of Orthodox hymnography – a text of profound spiritual depth and beauty. It begins with a heartfelt cry to Christ: “Where shall I begin to weep […]

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    In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. I would like to draw your attention in today’s Gospel reading, which is so simple and so familiar to all of us, to two or three features that may go unnoticed because we are so accustomed to this […]

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