Please make the reading of The Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete which is a traditional Byzantine Christian Lenten reading available as a predefined plan in Verbum. It can be found many places but here is one:Great Canon Text (saintjonah.org). This is often "torn" out of the liturgy as a personal devotion during Lent. See The Great Canon: The Work of St. Andrew of Crete: Holy Trinity Monastery: 9780884654520: AmazonSmile: Books and The First Fruits of Prayer: A Forty-Day Journal through the Canon of St. Andrew: Mathewes-Green, Frederica: 9781557256119: AmazonSmile: Books
Less important but still valuable are the patristic reading lists for Lent e.g.
A Patristic Reading Plan for the Great Lent
27 February 2017
Great Lent might be a time of increase in spiritual reading. We present a day-by-day Patristic Reading Plan for every of the forty days of Great Lent. It should be helpful in immersing in the writings of the Early Fathers during the Great Fast.
| Day |
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Reading |
| 1 |
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Epistle to Diognetus, 1-6 |
| 2 |
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Epistle to Diognetus, 7-12 |
| 3 |
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St Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle To the Ephesians, 1-7 |
| 4 |
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St Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle To the Ephesians, 8-14 |
| 5 |
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St Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle To the Ephesians, 15-21 |
| 6 |
|
St Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle To the Magnesians, 1-5 |
| 7 |
|
St Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle To the Magnesians, 6-10 |
| 8 |
|
St Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle To the Magnesians, 11-15 |
| 9 |
|
St Justin Martyr, First Apology, 1-7 |
| 10 |
|
St Justin Martyr, First Apology, 8-14 |
| 11 |
|
St Justin Martyr, First Apology, 15-21 |
| 12 |
|
St Justin Martyr, First Apology, 22-29 |
| 13 |
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St Justin Martyr, First Apology, 30-37 |
| 14 |
|
St Justin Martyr, First Apology, 38-45 |
| 15 |
|
St Justin Martyr, First Apology, 46-53 |
| 16 |
|
St Justin Martyr, First Apology, 54-60 |
| 17 |
|
St Justin Martyr, First Apology, 61-68 |
| 18 |
|
St Cyprian of Carthage, On the Unity of the Church (Treatise I), 1-9 |
| 19 |
|
St Cyprian of Carthage, On the Unity of the Church (Treatise I), 10-18 |
| 20 |
|
St Cyprian of Carthage, On the Unity of the Church (Treatise I), 19-27 |
| 21 |
|
St Athanasius, Life of St Anthony, 1-9 |
| 22 |
|
St Athanasius, Life of St Anthony, 10-16 |
| 23 |
|
St Athanasius, Life of St Anthony, 17-25 |
| 24 |
|
St Athanasius, Life of St Anthony, 26-33 |
| 25 |
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St Athanasius, Life of St Anthony, 34-41 |
| 26 |
|
St Athanasius, Life of St Anthony, 42-49 |
| 27 |
|
St Athanasius, Life of St Anthony, 50-58 |
| 28 |
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St Athanasius, Life of St Anthony, 59-66 |
| 29 |
|
St Athanasius, Life of St Anthony, 67-73 |
| 30 |
|
St Athanasius, Life of St Anthony, 74-81 |
| 31 |
|
St Athanasius, Life of St Anthony, 82-89 |
| 32 |
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St Athanasius, Life of St Anthony, 90-94 |
| 33 |
|
St Cyril of Jerusalem, Mystagogical Catechesis 2 (Oration 20) |
| 34 |
|
St Cyril of Jerusalem, Mystagogical Catechesis 4 (Oration 22) |
| 35 |
|
St Cyril of Jerusalem, Mystagogical Catechesis 5 (Oration 23), 1-11 |
| 36 |
|
St Cyril of Jerusalem, Mystagogical Catechesis 5 (Oration 23), 12-23 |
| 37 |
|
St Ambrose of Milan, On the Holy Mysteries, 1-4 |
| 38 |
|
St Ambrose of Milan, On the Holy Mysteries, 5-9 |
| 39 |
|
St Leo the Great, Sermon 49 (On Great Lent, 11), complete text |
| 40 |
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St Leo the Great: Sermon 72 (On the Lord’s Resurrection), complete text
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Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
