Great Lent (Eastern Orthodox)
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- A breakdown of the Sundays and general flow of Great Lent as practiced by the Eastern Orthodox Church. This is highly abridged and is missing a lot of beautiful details! To find those details, visit an Orthodox Church and ask some questions.
LINKS:
Amanda from 'Growing this Home' breaks down Orthodox Lent in a few minutes: • What is Lent?
An excellent Great Lent video made with excellent writing and humour by Bojan from Bible Illustrated: • Lent Walk With Me: Ove...
A short from Theoria on Lent in West/East: • History of Lent in the...
If you want a book about Great Lent, try and find this work by Fr Alexander Schmemann. It is beautiful: svspress.com/g...
A short pamphlet type work from the same author: www.gutenberg....
Written breakdowns of the Sundays of the Publican and Pharisee, Prodigal Son, Meatfare, and Cheesefare. Includes Scripture readings, hymns and teachings: www.goarch.org...
Same as above but for the Lenten Sundays: www.goarch.org...
Same as above for the days of Holy Week: www.goarch.org...
Pascha/Easter: www.goarch.org...
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My favorite part of Great Lent is how defeated the devil is. Forgiveness Sunday alone is a great triumph, the fasting and almsgiving that follows is nothing short of perfect warfare against evil.
Well said!
i'm Catholic, but I think I just found my new favourite channel to learn about Orthodoxy. God bless!
3 days in and it already feels like a battle against insurmountable odds. Lent is powerful.
My first Lent season as an Orthodox Christian. Thank you for the beautiful summary of what’s to come. God Bless!
I converted to Orthodox Christianity last year and I am starting my first Lent 💗
Welcome!
Wonderful!!☦☦
Same 😅
Hopefully you can go to many of the services. Someone once told me that to understand our true Orthodox ethos/ soul/ lifestyle, you must LISTEN WELL to all the prayers and services. So true.
@@marymarysmarket3508 fortunately I live in Syria so we have many orthodox churches here where I can learn more and more. I completely agree - I've never *really* understood orthodoxy until I've seen it real time.
The highlight for me is the Paschal homily by St. John Chrystostom. Gets me every time.
Best. Sermon. Ever.
It was embittered, for it was abolished.
It was embittered, for it was mocked.
It was embittered, for it was slain.
It was embittered, for it was overthrown.
It was embittered, for it was fettered in chains.
It took a body, and met God face to face! It took earth, and encountered Heaven!
Will be having my first great lent soon. Nervous, but also excited
That's the normal mixture! It's the anticipation of a true adventure. God bless!
Read the Psalms daily..pray more and do good. God will meet your efforts
Great and Holy Lent!!!!
It tells something about Saturday-Sunday night service that when I went and participate in it first time, I dreamed about that service afterwards.
Excellent episode. So grateful for the season of Lent in specific and for the over all rhythm of the Church year, the fasts the feasts, given to us to constantly be pulling us back into proper focus.
I was born orthodox, I am grateful for that. The way we praise and worship our Lord Jesus Christ is so amazing as orthodox Christian.
Thank you for all the wonderful work that you do brother!
May you have a wonderful and blessed struggle this Lenten Season!
"The LORD bless you and keep you:
The LORD make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you:
The LORD lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace."
Numbers 6: 24 - 26
I'm going to watch Lent and mildly participate this time as it's my first and I'm never really been Christian but I'll be watching 😊
Step by step. ☦💝📿💝☦
Another great video. I look forward to the day you guys make it big. May God grant you a fruitful Lenten season.
U have a teacher heart. Full of wisdom. Truly blessed brother. Thank you 🙏🏽 ☦️
Wonderful explanation. Thanks so much for the great content in these videos. Have a Blessed Great Lent. ☦️
Thank you! You too!
Great video like always.
makes more meaning to me ive never seen.till know we know that early Christians were of The Way in Greek its o dos or odyssey or journey not just any journey but a specific purposed journey arranged by God individually and together such grace I went to a O priest to begin my great o dos after 65 years heading home thanks your videos are fantastic just what i needed to hear and see
May your Great Lent be peaceful and spiritually profitable!! ☦️🙏
Glory to God! ☦️
I like this guy
🎤Amen! Great advice, lent is to be lived. I feel like sometimes we focus so much on the what to eat part and we forget about the deeds, which are far more important (we=I). May God have mercy on us all!
My favorite you are so bless I learn a lot from you ,,!!
WOW. I am truly impressed by this video. I've been Orthodox most of my life, but am only at the beginning of my journey of understanding the true purpose of the Fast. This will also definetly provide an excellent starting point for my non-Orthodox friends aho are curious about what Great Lent entails. Also, really appreciate the disclaimer at the beginning! Excellent video.
To add: During the Liturgical services Angels, Archangels... are invisibility (for us) present and at the beginning of the Liturgical service the Theotokos (Bogorodic, The Mother of God, Mary, The Great Mother) enters the Church. So be there ON TIME😊 ☦🙏
Excellent!
Great video, as always.
Could you make a video on the books "Life After Death" (Jean-Claude Larchet) e the "The Soul after Death" (Toll Houses theory, by Fr. Seraphim Rose), according to the Church Fathers?
Thank you!
Im excited and nervous at the same time.
A regular part of waiting for Lent! It is a grand adventure
Nice! Congrat!
Respect from Ukraine! Very simple and informative for beginners 👌🏻😁
can you make a video about the canon of the old and new testament
Great explanation!
I know this video is one year old, but do you have any recomendations as to what could someone read during the lent to acompany his contemplation?
extremely unfortunate I don't have an orthodox church in my town.
wish I could take part in it.
You can still make a connection to the Orthodox Church from a distance. You might want to check out Fr Andrew Jarmus' online ministry "The Fellowship of Saint Theophan the Recluse", which regularly sends out emails and has monthly zoom meetings about the faith and is specifically focussed on bringing Orthodoxy to those who are far from a community: fostrorthodoxy.podia.com
What do Orthodox give up for 40 Days for lent? I heard it's essentially being Vegan for 40 days.
Pretty much yes. That's how we tend to introduce it though it's more complicated than that. The main thing is that it's a community fast we all share. We have an episode that introduces it a bit: ua-cam.com/video/OOYBSCJMFHg/v-deo.html
But best thing to learn more would be to chat to an Orthodox priest about it
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Ever the outsider. I didn't know about giving up meat. I am giving up dairy and eggs though. That alright?
Just do what you can, at least this year. However, It’s always best to talk to your priest if you want to become an Orthodox Christian and deal with the fast. Do you go to church?
I suggest watching the previous video about Fasting. ua-cam.com/video/OOYBSCJMFHg/v-deo.html
That gives advice about what you should do if you are interested and wish to fast.
Talk to your priest or spiritual father = communion and obedience.
There is a story of Saint Anthony the Great if I remember correctly that is as follows: Saint Anthony used to do this 40 days complete fasts just like Christ did and one day he saw one of the brothers around him being on the floor, exhausted and desperate after only 3 days of fasting. Seeing him, Saint Anthony wanted to reprimand him for being like that after just 3 days of fasting, but then God Himself spoke to Saint Anthony and said (this are my own words as I do not remember the exact quote): Anthony, Antonhy, you are fasting with My power, but this brother is fasting with his own!
God does not expect us to do more then we can, and the power to go further and further into Orthodoxy does not come from ourselves. God will help us climb step by step. We just have to start somewhere. So, that being said, I want to say that in my eyes you rock for giving up dairy and eggs.
May I know why should we give up the meat? I would really love to learn more about the Orthodox Church.
There are surely many approaches to this, but in a sense, giving up meat and all animal products means that we come back to the lifestyle of first humans prior to the Great Flood (it's the same diet God gave to Adam and Eve), and when we do that, it guides us to struggle against sin which is the main problem. Sin was the reason why humans were banished from the Garden, so struggling against sin and growing in virtues means means reviving ang spiritual return to the Garden... Other approach could be that meat is literally flesh, and it could be strange to consume even more flesh when you are fighting against the passions of the flesh.
Wow .. just how after all of those years a part, the Eastern and the Oriental Orthodox churchs are more similar than different, as a member of the Coptic Orthodox Church I pray that we can become one church again during my lifetime. I hope to see videos about the Coptic Orthodox Church soon, as it has a deep impact on how most of the Orthodox world works till this day.
Reposting a comment on this subject that I made elsewhere, as it didn't quite get the traction I was hoping for.
If I may ask, as an inquirer into Orthodoxy with every intention of becoming a catechuman once I can consistently attend my "local" parish a few towns over, what are Orthodox supposed to do if they fail to overcome these struggles? I struggle with addiction to pornography and while I would like nothing more than to completely cut it out of my life, I find myself stumbling and outright falling on a fairly regular basis. Less often each time, but the struggle is still there, even today. I imagine fasting is still comparable to fighting an addiction, even if it may not be quite be the same thing. (obviously it's easier for most to abstain from oil than heroine, for instance).
So in short, if an Orthodox finds that fasting from a carnal desire is more challenging than they perhaps should have anticipated, and succumbs to the vice, how are they to proceed? What is their solution? Generally speaking, as I'm aware this would be judged on a case by case basis by a priest and/or spiritual father.
I presume you don't completely abandon the fast, because that's the entire point to overcoming something that's become intrusive in your life (spiritual, or otherwise). I know from experience that it is better to try, and fail a thousand times over, than it is to not try at all, and give up completely because "It's to difficult right now, and will get easier if I try next time, or tomorrow, or next week/month/year". It only gets easier through failing, and getting back up to overcome it again. Never through capitulation.
Thank you in advance, to anyone who may respond, and may you glean something useful from my own struggles, whether it be for fasting, or overcoming addiction, and/or vice.
I'm mere a catechumen myself... but as far as I know, you're right - these things are better to be discussed with each one's own spiritual father. It's hard to give some general advices and encouragements instead of personal ones. In private discussions, they are also able to help you understand why e.g. pornography is not from God and in what ways it hurts our neighbours. For some people, understanding helps to fight against different temptations, and for some others it has no role in struggling.
Let's just say that it's crucial to confess (to your spiritual father) whenever you have struggles on some issues. First thing Adam and Eve did after eating the fruit was to hide from God... let's not make the same mistake but bring our sins forth before our Lord. We are sick and He is our doctor. When we admit we have problems, we allow Him to help us. This 'healing process' may take years and decades, but there is always some progress if we manage to abide in Christ.
And you're right, you don't (completely) abandon the fast. Actually, everyone is unsuccessful in fasting in some way. But that's not a reason to abandon the fast. Instead, it should inspire us to continue the fast. When we fall, we should just rise up and continue this journey, and use our falling as fuel to seek God's kingdom even more decisively. As John the Forerunner said, "He [Jesus] must increase, and I must decrease". Through different struggles and sins, our heart may be open to see our condition and pray like the tax collector, the sinful woman and others. Like prodigal sons and daughters we arrive to before our Father, and we'll hear words "Your faith has healed you. Go in peace and sin no more". Holy Eucharist is for the remission of sins, for healing of soul and body, and for everlasting life, and we pray that God would not lead us into temptation but deliver us from the Evil.
So, let us commit ourselves and one another, and all our life unto Christ our God and our Hope.
@An Anonymouse User your last paragraph inspired me to reply. I wish I could give you some worthwhile advice, unfortunately I can only send encouragement and thanks for your courage. I am sure you will triumph. I'm not even Orthodox, after attending a few Divine Liturgies I realised how much strength and commitment is needed to be true to the faith. I do not want to dilute that faith, so I have been trying to live an Orthodox life for the past few months. I can only say while I am constantly tempted I distract myself with random thoughts or tasks and this helps on most occasions. I still fail often, but I try to focus on the positives and each day brings new hope. Fasting and not eating meat or dairy is completely strange to me. I can ignore pornography but the refrigerator is constantly tempting me. I wish you well with overcoming your challenges.
I struggled with addiction myself and I guess it`s probably better to talk to a priest then to me but my story is as follows: I did everything I could beside my addiction, fasting, praying, going to church, I fought my addiction too but I was just failing and fighting again and failing again. I used to go to elders in monasteries and seek advice and asked for their prayers and one day, after a few years, I just felt all my sins on my shoulders so I just fell on my knees in front of an icon of Christ ( I was not even in my house but fortunately I was alone at that time) and under that imense burden I just started crying like I never cried before. After like half an hour of praying my heart out I got up. I then started saying the Christ prayer all the time and a few days later I went for a general confession. I have written down everything I have done since I could remember and went to my priest. After that I felt like a new human being and it`s been 2 years since I am clean of my addiction. I don`t know if the specificity is helpful but I guess the ideea is to fight it with all you have and if you fall, just pick yourself up again and fight and then again and again, and try to be as close as possible to the church and ask for other people to pray for you. I really felt like the prayers of the monks I visited made a huge difference if not all the difference. And if you do all you can, Christ will cure you Himself. I will pray for you too if you give me your baptism name, or at least your first name if you are not baptized even tho my prayers will probably not mean a lot since I am still a beginner practitioner of the Orthodoxy even if I was a theoretical Christian Orthodox since I was 3 months .
Stay with the Church, of course. Father Joesph Gleason, who now lives in Russia with his wife and two children, has a newsletter called Fr. Joe's Newsletter. He recently sent out an article about that very subject, based on a book by a doctor who wrote about the plasticity of the brain and its ability to heal. Of course, he spoke also about the role of the Church, as i remember.
I can't give you any more jnfo in how you might find the article.
@@lindaphillips4646 Greetings, and thank you for reaching out! I actually am a Catechuman now (catechised Jan 6th of 2024, I started attending Liturgy on August 6th 2023), and I have successfully beaten back the porn addiction, and it's accompanying vices. Took me until my Catechism to fully kick the masturbation addiction. The porn use subsided in July before I started attending Church.
In my own *personal* situation I was actually recommended by my priest to *not* try to hold to the fasts, but to instead ensure I had a healthy and complete diet, a good sleep schedule, and that I remained at least somewhat active (IE, taking walks, light exercise). Not heavy or strenuous exercises though, as those can leave your body tired and vulnerable to spiritual attack. As soon as I followed that advice, it became much easier to resist and I was healed of onanism by January. Though, I relapsed to the onanism many times throughout that fight. The urge still occurs on occasion, but I've only given in once in the last three months. Long-suffering is key. Don't give up the fight, don't become despondent, don't dwell on the guilt if you relapse. Ask for mercy, and move on as if it never occurred. Become wiser, learn from your mistakes, and avoid stumbling blocks. (IE, situations and circumstances which encourage/lead to relapse.)
As before, I hope whomsoever reads this can learn from my struggles. It does get better!