Tag: school of repentance

Homilies

Romanian Patriarch offers reflections on Great Lent: from pagan training school to Christian repentance school

Published by Aurelian Iftimiu
04.03.2020

The first part of the Great Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete was officiated in all Orthodox churches on Monday evening, March 2, 2020, marking the beginning of Great Lent. At the patriarchal cathedral in…

Homilies

Patriarch Daniel officiates Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete. ‘Great Lent is a school of repentance’

Published by Aurelian Iftimiu
22.02.2018

Repentance was the main theme of Patriarch Daniel’s homily delivered Monday evening at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest. ‘The Great Lent is a school of repentance,’ because it is ‘a mystical partaking of the Saviour’s…