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Meditations for Holy Week: Dying and Rising with Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

Combining liturgical and devotional insights with a warm, accessible style, Archimandrite Vassilios offers these meditations on the services of Holy Week—helping the reader enter fully into this most rich and intense period of the Christian year. Including many hymns and readings from the liturgies, he reflects on the “profound depth of these seven great and holy days of our Orthodox Church,”...

We celebrate the Liturgy, yet we do not wish to follow the example of Christ’s love given to us in the Eucharist. When we receive Holy Communion, we receive Love—pure, selfless, undying, divine Love. And yet we so often receive it with indifference, and maybe even with pride and hatred in our hearts. “Do this in remembrance of Me” means not only to “eat this bread and drink this cup” to “proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes,” not only to “keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance”; it means
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