The end of Great Lent is in sight—the final day of the holy Forty Days is a week from tomorrow. Already we turn our eyes toward the Passion starting from next Monday, when we will begin to sing of Lazarus’s departure and the Lord’s Entrance. Before then, however, we take the final days of the fifth week of Lent to renew our focus upon our repentance, taking the Great Canon—earlier spread over four nights during the first week of Lent—and reciting it all at once. Indeed, as St. Paisios the Athonite teaches, the Great Canon need not be only for Lent. In our private prayers, it can be our daily companion, instilling compunction in our hearts and constantly recollecting our mind to carry out the podvig of true repentance.
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