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Fifth Sunday of the Great Lent, The Paralyzed Man |
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Monday, 06 April 2009 17:44 |
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Today is the fifth Sunday in the Great Lent and is known as The Lame Man Sunday with a meaning crippled or paralyzed. The Gospel reading is from the Gospel according to St John (5: 1-18). The Holy Gospel in this section narrates for us the meeting between Our Lord and the sick man near Bethesda pool who had an infirmity for thirty-eight years.
Our Lord Jesus Christ saw and knew all about the desperate man, singled him out from the large crowd, and asked him, “Do you want to be made well?” (John 5:6). May be some will wonder why did Our Lord ask this question. The man has been sick for thirty–eight years. What was the purpose of that question?
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Fourth Sunday of the Great Lent, The Samaritan Woman |
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Thursday, 26 March 2009 18:57 |
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Gospel Reading: John 4:1-42
It is a story of repentance in which Jesus has a one on one personal encounter with a person whose life changes as a result of this encounter. This story is only found in the Gospel of John. This Gospel reading tells us many things...
Repentance - the Samaritan woman, who was a liar, an adulterer, and a person who had lived an immoral life having five husbands, repents and preaches Christ to her own people. Repentance results in freedom from the slavery of sin, and the Samaritan woman demonstrates her freedom by eagerly telling her own people about Christ, as if she had just been freed from jail.
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Third Sunday of the Great Lent, The Prodigal Son |
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Tuesday, 17 March 2009 17:35 |
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“THE GRACE OF GOD” by SAINT ATHANASIUS
And that young man who went into a far country, and there wasted his substance, living in dissipation, if he receive a desire for this divine feast, and, coming to himself, shall say, ‘How many hired servants of my father have bread to spare, while I perish here with hunger!’ and shall next arise and come to his father, and confess to him, saying, ‘I have sinned against heaven and before you, and am not worthy to be called your son; make me as one of your hired servants;’—when he shall thus confess, then he shall be counted worthy of more than he prayed for.
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The Hymn of the Prodigal Son "third Sunday" |
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Tuesday, 17 March 2009 16:49 |
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Blessed are those who have mercy
Who give to the poor and fast and pray
The Holy Spirit will fill their hearts
The Son will show them mercy on Judgment Day.
There was a man who had two sons
Working with him in the house they grew
After his death all that he had
Was to be divided between the two.
The younger son said to his father
Give me now my share of what you own
Soon after that he took what he received
And went far away to live on his own.
He spent his money by living in sin
With youth who came to have fun with him
Not long after, he lost all he had
The future seemed so gloomy and grim.
Blessed are those who have mercy...
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Second Sunday of the Great Lent, Sunday of Temptation "Hymn" |
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Wednesday, 11 March 2009 18:35 |
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Blessed are those who have mercy
Who give to the poor and fast and pray
The Holy Spirit will fill their hearts
The Son will show them mercy on Judgment Day.
Jesus fasted in the wilderness
For forty nights and forty days
Teaching us to follow in His path
And walk in the narrow and righteous ways.
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