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    Great Lent: A School of Repentance Its Meaning for Orthodox Christians
    Great Lent: A School of Repentance Its Meaning for Orthodox Christians
    Great Lent: A School of Repentance Its Meaning for Orthodox Christians
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    Great Lent: A School of Repentance Its Meaning for Orthodox Christians

    By Alexander Schmemann

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Great Lent - Alexander Schmemann

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Great Lent: A School of Repentance, by

      Alexander Schmemann

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      Title: Great Lent: A School of Repentance

      Its Meaning for Orthodox Christians

      Author: Alexander Schmemann

      Release Date: June 13, 2011 [EBook #36415]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GREAT LENT: A SCHOOL OF REPENTANCE ***

      Produced by Gerard Arthus, David Garcia and the Online

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      GREAT LENT

      A SCHOOL OF REPENTANCE

      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

      CONTENTS

      GREAT LENT

      THE TIME OF REPENTANCE

      Brethren, while fasting bodily, let us also fast spiritually; let us loosen every bond of injustice; let us destroy the strong fetters of violence; let us tear up every unjust writing; let us give bread to the hungry and let us welcome the homeless poor to our houses, that from Christ our God we may receive the great mercy.

      (Stichira, Wednesday of the First Week)

      We are approaching again the Great Lent—the time of repentance, the time of our reconciliation with God. Repentance is the beginning and also the condition of a truly Christian life. Repent! was the first word of Christ when He began to preach (Matt. 4:17). But what is repentance? In the daily rush of our life we have no time to think about it, we simply take it for granted that we must go to confession, receive absolution, and then forget all about it until next year. Yet there must be a reason why our Church has set apart seven weeks as a special time of repentance and calls each Orthodox Christian to a special

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