† 4th Sunday of Great Lent (St. John of the Ladder)
SUNDAY April 1/14 ns 2024
GREAT LENT
A new addition has been added to Paragon PAGES"ON FAITH" and "A MAN NAMED GEORGE"by St Symeon the New Theologian
There is much to be said about this gift from St. Symeon, but suffice it to say I hope you will take time to read it and if you've read it before, I know you will want to read it again.A 15-20 minute read.
SUNDAY April 1/14 ns 2024
GREAT LENT
A new addition has been added to Paragon PAGES
"ON FAITH" and "A MAN NAMED GEORGE"
by St Symeon the New Theologian
There is much to be said about this gift from St. Symeon, but suffice it to say I hope you will take time to read it and if you've read it before, I know you will want to read it again.
A 15-20 minute read.
St. Mary of Egypt
The recorder of the life of this wonderful saint was St Sophronios, Patriarch of Jerusalem
The Life of St. Mary of Egypt is read in its entirety along with the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete on Wednesday of Great Lent.
St. Melíton,
Bishop of Sardis
A well-known pastor of the Church in the second century, he was a man of great learning and labored to codify all the books of Holy Scripture. He labored also in meekness and devotion to bring peace to the Church in Laodicea, involved in a quarrel about the celebration of Easter. Apart from this, he defended Christianity against the pagans. He travelled to Rome in about 170, bringing a written apologia on the Faith and the Christian Church to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
St Melíton, this learned, devout and zealous man, entered peacefully into rest in the Lord in about 177.
Saint Matthew 28:16-20 KJV
16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
17 And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.
18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Hebrews 6:13-20 KJV
13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
Saint Mark 9:17-31 KJV
Why does Christ's Church prescribe fasting and prayer at various times throughout the year and increases it during Great Lent?
Read this Gospel and know.
Read this Gospel and know.
17 And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit;
18 And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
19 He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me.
20 And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.
21 And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.
22 And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.
23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
26 And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.
28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?
29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
30 And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not that any man should know it.
31 For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.
PRIDE MAKES US FORGET OUR SINS
FOR THE REMEMBRANCE OF THEM LEADS TO HUMILITY
BY SAINT JOHN CLIMACOS
PHOTO: CHURCH OF THE HOLY RESURRECION
JERUSALEM 1962
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