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Glory be to Jesus Christ!!
To my Brothers and sisters in the Orthodox Church and in the Eastern Catholic Churches that use the Julian Paschalia:
Since this coming Sunday is Forgivenesss Sunday, may I be the first to offer my prayers for each of you as you come to the observance of Great Lent. May this season of introspection, repentance, and fasting be a means of drawing each of you to a closer relationship with Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ, to a greater sense of thankfulness for what He has done for all of us by His Holy, Saving Passion and Glorious Resurrection, and to your growth in faith, holiness, and spiritual understanding by opening each of you to the Holy Spirit's working in and on your lives.
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Thank you, Bob...indeed, this Lenten period has been very late for us this year (gave us lots of time after the Christmas fast to indulge in meat and cheese, lol)... Seriously, we tremble spiritually as we face the holy season coming, and as we attempt to put aside worldliness and worldly pleasures (less tv and other entertainment, more prayer and spiritual reading, more church going, etc.)... Fortunately, for those who are less disciplined, or too busy at work during the day, my parish offers services at night 6 nights a week...on Tuesday and Thurs. we have the beautiful and touching supplicatory Compline service, on Wed. nights, we have the Presanctified service in order to partake of Holy Communion more often than usual, on Friday nights we have the Greek tradition of the 'Heretismoi' or 'Hails'...a part of the Akathist is chanted for four weeks consecutively, with the fifth week being the full celebration of the Akathist to the Theotokos..then on Saturday nights, there are of course Vespers. We are very lucky to have a priest who has the spiritual and physical stamina to do this full cycle of services for the parish. It is exhausting for the body, but for the soul it is a rebirth... With respect, In Christ, Alice 
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Let me be among the first to ask my Orthodox and Eastern Catholic brethren who will celebrate Forgiveness Sunday Vespers this coming Sunday to forgive me each and every thing I have done to offend any and all of you in the past year.
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Psalm 141 (O Lord, I have cried...) contains the verse "set a watch before my mouth and guard the door of my lips".
In this age of instant communications we might well augment that to include "set a guard before my fingers" lest we hit the "send" or "submit" button too hastily.
So if my postings have brought anyone distress, I beg your forgiveness.
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The five week difference in the calendars does offer some good opportunities...in the old Western calendar the Fifth Sunday in Lent was titled "Passion Sunday" and began a two week "season within a season" that was called Passiontide, the most serious and intense portion of the Fast.
So participating in Forgiveness Vespers on Sunday (as I intend to do) strikes me as a very fitting way to enter into the most solemn part of the Lenten journey.
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As I now enter the Great Fast , I ask all here to forgive me if I have offended you by any action , or word .
Please pray for me a great sinner
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God forgives, who therefore am I not to forgive.
In turn, I beg the forgiveness of any here whom I may have offended
Prayers that my brothers and sisters who follow the Julian Calendar be blessed with a spiritually fulfilling Great Fast.
Many years,
Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Please forgive me for anything I may have written that offended, hurt or saddened any one.
May God forgive us all!
In Christ,
Alice
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Psalm 141 (O Lord, I have cried...) contains the verse "set a watch before my mouth and guard the door of my lips".
In this age of instant communications we might well augment that to include "set a guard before my fingers" lest we hit the "send" or "submit" button too hastily.
So if my postings have brought anyone distress, I beg your forgiveness.
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The five week difference in the calendars does offer some good opportunities...in the old Western calendar the Fifth Sunday in Lent was titled "Passion Sunday" and began a two week "season within a season" that was called Passiontide, the most serious and intense portion of the Fast.
So participating in Forgiveness Vespers on Sunday (as I intend to do) strikes me as a very fitting way to enter into the most solemn part of the Lenten journey. Yeah, Psalm 141 is given the "spotlight" during Presanctified Liturgies for sure, although I know it is given time in the Forgiveness Vespers at times as well. However, yes... I agree with everything you say here. Also, for all those brethren that are entering the Great Fast today, as well as for those that are in the sixth week, heading towards Great and Holy Week next week, may I seek forgiveness for anything I may have said and done, and that we can seek new spirit and new life during this Holiest of Holy of seasons.
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How beautiful is our God!
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