to stand as you are before Christ {repentance}

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from the altar of our homes to the Church

In this beginning of the Winter Fast :: we are the bread being yeasted :: salted :: fermented :: kneaded : risen :: punched down :: shaped formed fashioned and stamped with Grace : warmed :: Divine Love :: during this Winter Lent :: be leavened with Grace, Hope, Forgiveness, Goodness. :: Love :: this “change of mind and heart” turning to God and relying on Him for all in this life – that is the Gift :: that ís the Blessing :: Repentance :: standing fully silently absolutely as you are before Christ

reflections in Christ :: victoria

“With its kneading begins the preparation
of the Divine Liturgy”
PROSPHORO and ARTOS
Communion and Blessed Bread
“From the Prosphoro will be cut the
Lamb-Body of Christ”
PROSPHORO and ARTOS
Communion and Blessed Bread

bread of Life

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prosphoro baked

 

 

 

And the Holy Spirit changes this offering (prosphoro) to the Body of Christ, to the Bread of Life, to living bread for all. Bread which heals hunger in a decisive manner. Bread which grants true learning and true freedom. The only true education is the learning of love. The only true freedom is the abolishment of Death, which also abolishes the fear of being deprived of everything material.

“I am the Bread of Life.” (John 6: 35)

 

Prosphoro and Artos- Communion Bread and Blessed Bread

fermentation and life

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prosporo - an offering

“The prosphoro teaches us patience.  It teaches us that everything in life goes through a state of fermentation.  The Orthodox Church chooses to work with fermented products – bread and wine – and not with unleavened or unfermented.  This teaches us a lot about the mystical way in which everything in life works : with patience and in a slow, quiet, inconspicuous,  discreet way.”

from the book : Prosphoro and Artos – Communion Bread and Blessed Bread