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This service book provides the texts for services in the pre-Lenten weeks of preparation, Great Lent, and Holy Week—offering many of the texts necessary to observe the great fast. It contains all the offices to be found in the Greek Triodion, excluding the daily Triodion hymns outside the first week of Lent and Holy Week. This classic English edition, translated by Mother Mary and Archimandrite...

If we are to understand correctly the text of the Triodion and the spirituality that underlies it, there are five misconceptions about the Lenten fast against which we should guard. In the first place, the Lenten fast is not intended only for monks and nuns, but is enjoined on the whole Christian people. Nowhere do the Canons of the Ecumenical or Local Councils suggest that fasting is only for monks and not for the laity. By virtue of their Baptism, all Christians—whether married or under monastic
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