by Max Massell | Feb 23, 2020 | Faith, Sunday Scriptures, Great Fast & Holy Week
TOMORROW IS THE FIRST DAY of the Great Fast , the forty days of preparation for the observances of Great Week and Pascha. On this, the eve of the Fast, our Church always reds these words from St Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, “Now it is high time to awake out of sleep…...
by Max Massell | Mar 3, 2019 | Faith, Sunday Scriptures, Great Fast & Holy Week
TOMORROW IS THE FIRST DAY of the Great Fast. As a reminder, we hear once more these words of St Paul: “You know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep” (Romans 13:11). Each year the Church calls us to four fasting periods – four wake-up...
by Max Massell | Feb 11, 2018 | Faith, Sunday Scriptures, Great Fast & Holy Week
IF YOU WERE TO ASK a fitness devotee to describe Clean Week, you would hear about a seven-day nutrition and exercise program involving eating and lifestyle changes designed to “create the healthy habits you need for lifelong health and fitness.” If you were to ask a...
by Max Massell | Feb 7, 2016 | Sunday Scriptures, Great Fast & Holy Week
TOMORROW IS THE FIRST DAY of the Great Fast, the forty days of preparation for the observances of Great Week and Pascha. On this, the eve of the Fast, our Church always reads these words from St Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, “Now it is high time to awake out of...
by Max Massell | Mar 2, 2014 | Sunday Scriptures, Great Fast & Holy Week
SAD TO SAY, there are sincere believers who come to confession because they feel it is easier to repent before God than it is to apologize to people they have hurt! After all, God always forgives and the priest doesn’t try to make you feel embarrassed. On the...
