Holy Trinity Monastery - First Week of Great Lent



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God is a fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. Hence, if we feel in our hearts the cold which comes from the devil - for the devil is cold - let us call on the Lord. He will come to warm our hearts with perfect love, not only for Him but also for our neighbor, and the cold of him who hates the good will flee before the heat of His countenance.

St. Seraphim of Sarov

Our holy fathers have renounced all other spiritual work and concentrated wholly on this one doing, that is, on guarding the heart, convinced that, through this practice, they would easily attain every other virtue, whereas without it not a single virtue can be firmly established.

St. Symeon the New Theologian

Below is a video recording of the Kontakion of the Great Canon sung at Holy Trinity Monastery, March 4, 2009.

Kontakion of the Great Canon, Sixth Tone

My
Soul, my soul arise! Why sleepest thou? The end draweth near, and thou
shalt be troubled; arouse thyself, then, that Christ God may spare
thee, Who is everywhere present, and filleth all things.

Video Recording