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Naming the Sundays of Lent
#404125 03/12/14 03:49 PM
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How were the Sundays in Lent named? The Sunday of Orthodoxy and what is stands for make it sound like it should fall during a relatively festive season. And what made St Gregory, St John Climacus and St. Mary of Egypt deserving of their day of commemoration? Just curious.
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"The Ladder of Divine Ascents" by +John is excellent Lenten reading.

The "Life of St. Mary of Egypt" is likewise wonderful to hear during this season, in part because much of it is set during Lenten fast; in part, because the once self-exalted Zosimas finds himself thoroughly humbled by the devotion and sanctity of the former harlot.

Thus Mary of Egpyt and the parallel parable of Pharisee and the Publican form bookends around the Triodion and the Fast.
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Bertonniere's book is, or at least, was the last word on this topic. I believe it was published in the Analecta Christiana series out of the Pontificio Istituto Orientale.

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