The sixth week of the great Fast is dedicated to the commemoration of our Lord's parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Lk 16. 19-31).
I always like to ponder how Jesus' parables often make use of people without a name. As in this case, they are often the people we should ponder as being examples of own sinful life.
I also love St Romanos' kontakion on the same parable.
Lord, have mercy on us and grant all a blessed week of the Passion full of divine compunction and an all-blessed passage to the great and holy Pascha!
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About Me
- FRCJT
- I was born in East St Louis, Illinois in 1961 and grew up in South St Louis, Missouri. I abandoned the music program at Southern Illinois University after deciding to study theology. To this end I enrolled at Hellenic College, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology and received the BA and MDiv degrees from these schools. From there I received scholarships to complete a doctoral dissertation in Byzantine Musicology at the School of Theology of the National and Capodistrian University of Athens, Greece, from which I received the ThD in the year 2000; my dissertation was published in the Meletai series of the Institute of Byzantine Musicology. Most dear to my heart is the family I have been blessed with: my wife Diann, my daughter, Maria, and one unborn child God decided to keep for Himself. Presently, I live on the island of Aegina with my family and where I presently sit and write my psaltic musings.