The Eastern Rite

10) Thanks for this gift! We’ll eat it in 6 weeks. 9) I’d love to come to your anniversary party, is there vegan food? 8) We’d like to help the Scouts out, but our initials fall in the “Meat” category, can we bring a Salad instead? 7) I can’t come to the office’s monthly birthday [...]

The tradition of Great Lent is one of intensified praxis, or practice. Our of our journey is to be acsesis (Greek), or podvig (Slavonic), or Jihad (Arabic) or, in English, struggle. We are “working out our salvation in fear and trembling” as St Paul says. We are “running the race set before us.” Lent is [...]