The Prayer That Descends into the Heart (On the Third Week of the Fast, through the teaching of St. Gregory of Sinai) The Fast is now deep enough that we begin to feel its weight. The first week was fire - repentance, confession, the trembling return to God. The second week
The Silence Where God Waits Second Week of the Great Fast A strange thing has happened to the modern world. We have never been more connected, and yet we have never felt more alone. Phones glow late into the night in bedrooms across the world. Blue light fills the darkness.
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The Forgiveness That Opens the Fast On Cheese Fare Sunday, the Church does something quietly devastating. Before she asks anything of us, she asks us to bow to one another. There is candlelight in the nave. The choir has just finished, and the last note is still dissolving into the