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This week we will: Review what happens in the Liturgy and why it is important

This week we will: Review what happens in the Liturgy and why it is important Consider how we can prepare for Sunday Look at Orthodox ‘Time Management’. Prayer Bible Reading Fasting.

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This week we will: Review what happens in the Liturgy and why it is important

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  1. This week we will: • Review what happens in the Liturgy and why it is important • Consider how we can prepare for Sunday • Look at Orthodox ‘Time Management’

  2. Prayer • Bible Reading • Fasting

  3. … we will look at the possible stumbling blocks that can make full participation in the life of the Church difficult

  4. Language • Time • Other Commitments • Our old ways and habits

  5. Top ten tips to living an Orthodox Life • Have a Time for Prayer • Have a Space for Prayer • Use the Bible • Build up a Prayer ‘library’ • Speak from your heart • Get a spiritual guide • Find out about fasting • Sanctify all you do • Use Technology to your advantage • Join with others in Fellowship and enter the life of the Church.

  6. “This is the day the Lord has made – let us rejoice and be glad in it.”

  7. Christianity is not a philosophy, not a doctrine, but life.

  8. I WANT

  9. I AM THAT I AM

  10. “I am Father, I am brother, I am bridegroom, I am dwelling place, I am food, I am raiment, I am root, I am foundation, all whatsoever thou wiliest, I am.” “Be thou in need of nothing, I will be even a servant, for I came to minister, not to be ministered unto; I am friend, and member, and head, and brother, and sister, and mother; I am all; only cling thou closely to me. I was poor for thee, and a wanderer for thee, on the cross for thee, in the tomb for thee, above I intercede for thee to the Father; on earth I am come for thy sake am ambassador from my Father. Thou art all things to me, brother, and joint heir, and friend, and member.” What wouldest thou more?

  11. “Silence is the language of God, everything else is a mistranslation” Fr. Meletios, Abbot of St. John of San Francisco Monastery

  12. On fast days we do not consume meat, dairy products, fish, olive oil and wine. Fruits, vegetables, grains and shellfish are permitted throughout the year. Wednesdays and Fridays Great Lent, before Christmas, before 15th August, select days

  13. Language language

  14. Have a Time for Prayer • Have a Space for Prayer • Use the Bible • Build up a Prayer ‘library’ • Speak from your heart • Get a spiritual guide • Find out about fasting • Sanctify all you do • Use Technology to your advantage • Join with others in Fellowship and enter the life of the Church.

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