This insightful book offers readers of all denominational backgrounds an opportunity to walk through a classic Orthodox text from the Christian East in a series of 40 prayerful readings with accompanying commentary and questions for further reflection.
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This insightful book offers readers of all denominational backgrounds an opportunity to walk through a classic Orthodox text from the Christian East in a series of 40 prayerful readings with accompanying commentary and questions for further reflection.
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New. The Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete is the long, penitential collection of scripturally-based hymns and meditations, recited corporately during the evenings of the first week of Lent, that jump-start the Orthodox entrance into that season. St. Andrew (d. 740) was a monk of the Monastery of St. Sabas and later an archbishop in Crete, but he is best-known as one of the great hymnographers of the Orthodox Church. His Lenten canon is an example of the seamless reading-in common with the Church Fathers-of the Old Testament in light of the Incarnation and its organic unfolding in the Orthodox tradition. Frederica offers an amazingly substantive, thirty-eight-page introduction to the background of the Canon (conversationally relating-she is brilliant as no other at this-a theology of sin as sickness, of sanctification as theosis, guilt and atonement, monasticism, and devotion to the saints) as well as an outline of the life of St. Andrew and the structure of his canon. That accomplished, she goes on to present the text of the Canon with facing pages of close historical and devotional commentary. As the title indicates, its division into forty readings presents a wonderful resource for a deep and authentic experience of Great Lent. The Life of St. Mary of Egypt--an icon of repentance and an essential part of the Canon--concludes this book as an appendix. A wonderful opportunity to enter into Lent more fully and intentionally. 236 pp.
