In time for Lent ... please provide some predefined reading plans.

MJ. Smith

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		Reading
1		Epistle to Diognetus, 1-6
2		Epistle to Diognetus, 7-12
3		St Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle To the Ephesians, 1-7
4		St Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle To the Ephesians, 8-14
5		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		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		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		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		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		St Leo the Great: Sermon 72 (On the Lord’s Resurrection), complete text