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IOCC Volunteer Update | 2024 Issue 3

IOCC’s annual booklet of Lenten reflections is now available to view online or download on our Lenten Resources page. This year’s reflections come from women who have volunteered with IOCC in various capacities.

Second Sunday | St. Gregory Palamas

Our Lenten practices are prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, and St. Gregory Palamas taught the practice of quiet prayer (hesychasm).

First Sunday | The Sunday of Orthodoxy

IOCC draws its inspiration from Matthew 25:35–36, 40, which begins, “For I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in … as you did it to one of the least of these, My brethren, you did it to Me.”

An Invitation to Reflection This Lent

Great and Holy Lent, though a somber season, is at the same time an invitation to renewal as we seek deeper communion with Christ through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.