Category: The Akathist
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“Beseech That Your Servants Be Written in the Book of Life”
How do we understand what we are heading towards, that is, the Passover? How do we understand that we are going in our course to the table where “the fatted calf, so that none departs hungry,” as Saint John Chrysostom says? And what is the connection of food to death and victory? Are they symbols?…
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Immortality
“Beseech that Your servants be written in the Book of Life” How do we understand what we are heading toward — that is, the Pascha? How do we understand that we go in our procession to the table where “the fatted calf, so that no one departs hungry,” as Saint John Chrysostom says? And what…