This passage is read in Orthodox churches the Sunday before Lent: Besides this you know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to ...

The Sunday before Lent begins is Forgiveness Sunday in the Orthodox Church. It is a day to ask everyone for their forgiveness for any offens...

O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chasti...