THE CHURCH YEAR
The annual cycle of Feasts and Fasts is an essential element of experiencing the Life of Christ in the Orthodox tradition. The following articles will help you to understand what the Church Year is and what it means to allow our lives to be shaped by the Church’s calendar and not the secular one.
- From Lent to Pascha: The Journey of the People of God by Melanie Paulick
http://www.antiochian.org/node/21294 - Pascha the Feast of Feasts by a Monk of St. Tikhon’s
http://www.antiochian.org/node/25465 - Dachau, 1945: The Souls are All Enflamed by Douglas Cramer
http://www.antiochian.org/souls-aflame - Eggs in Christian Tradition by Holy Dormition Monastery, Hammatoura, Lebanon
http://www.hamatoura.com/GreetingCard/Greetings.php?subject=Eggs%20in%20Christian%20Tradition&link=07Pascha-En - The Twelve Great Feasts by a Monk of St Tikhon’s
http://www.antiochian.org/node/25551
- Transfiguration by Metropolitan Anthony Bloom
http://www.antiochian.org/node/25468 - The Presentation of the Theotokos in the Temple, an animated iconographic presentation by Holy Dormition Monastery, Hammatoura, Lebanon
http://www.hamatoura.com/GreetingCard/Greetings.php?subject=Presentation%20of%20the%20Theotokos&link=06TheotokosPresentation-En - The Nativity of Christ, an animated iconographic presentation by Holy Dormition Monastery, Hammatoura, Lebanon
http://www.hamatoura.com/GreetingCard/Greetings.php?subject=Nativity%20of%20Jesus%20Christ&link=06JesusNativity-En - There be Dragons: The Feast of Theophany by Fr. Stephen Freeman
http://www.antiochian.org/node/25470 - Tender Love and the Dormition by Kh. Frederica Matthews-Greene (podcast and transcript)
http://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/frederica/tender_love_and_the_dormition