242. DIVINE LITURGY 10: Great Lent – The Anaphora of Saint Basil, Part Four: We pray with the saints, we receive the Holy Eucharist, and the Liturgy concludes.

  Heaven on earth When we spoke last week of our being “lifted up” into Heaven, no doubt you noticed that you did not ascend into the sky. Heaven is not literally “up there” somewhere. Or perhaps in a strange way it is, since “up” from our round earth is infinite, “everywhere”! But Heaven is even […]

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241. THE DIVINE LITURGY 9: Great Lent – The Anaphora of Saint Basil, Part Three: “This is my Body. This is my Blood.”

Subscribers, I think this Post may first have been sent to some of you with no content. If so I’m sorry.  In case you want to review, last week I listed the previous Posts of this long series on the Liturgy.  Especially today, I’ve taken much from Father Alexander Schmemann’s writings. You might want to […]

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