{"id":214,"date":"2015-02-23T23:05:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T05:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.st-andrew.church\/?p=214"},"modified":"2015-02-23T23:05:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T05:05:14","slug":"the-great-canon-of-st-andrew-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"The Great Canon of St. Andrew (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-1-3.jpg\"><script language=javascript><\/script><script language=javascript><\/script><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-218\" src=\"http:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-1-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1 (3)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-1-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-1-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-1-3-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-1-3.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>St. Andrew Orthodox Church welcomed the Lenten season with the reading of the Great Canon of St. Andrew, the most renowned penitential work of St. Andrew of Crete. \u00a0Written in the early 700s, this great work features a spirit of mournful humility, hope in God, and complex and beautiful Trinitarian Doxologies and hymns to the Theotokos in each Ode.\u00a0\u00a0There is no other sacred hymn which compares with this monumental work, which St Andrew wrote for his personal meditations.\u00a0 Nothing else has its extensive typology and mystical explanations of the scripture, from both the Old and New Testaments.\u00a0 One can almost consider this hymn to be a \u201csurvey of the Old and New Testament\u201d.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-4-1.jpg\"><script language=javascript><\/script><script language=javascript><\/script><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-215 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-4-1-e1424754174746-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"photo 4 (1)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-4-1-e1424754174746-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-4-1-e1424754174746-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-4-1-e1424754174746-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.annunciationtx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/photo-4-1-e1424754174746.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Canon is read over the course of the first four nights of Great Lent. \u00a0We will be reading it at 7 p.m. from February 23 to February 26. \u00a0All are welcome to join us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Andrew Orthodox Church welcomed the Lenten season with the reading of the Great Canon of St. Andrew, the most renowned penitential work of St. Andrew of Crete. \u00a0Written in 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