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$\"\"$ <\/a>Every year I would go to the service of the Great Canon, and it\u2019s quite an experience: the darkened candle-lit church, incense smoke twining overhead, golden light glinting off the icons, and chanters singing the verses to ancient Byzantine melodies. After each verse everyone responds, \u201cHave mercy on me, O God,\u201d and bows to touch the ground. It\u2019s serious, and timeless, and piercingly beautiful, and kindles humility and a yearning to be healed from all the poison within. In every way it contrasts with the image Christians (often deservedly) have in today\u2019s culture. I wanted to make it available to more people.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Great Canon is part of the Eastern Orthodox tradition, but really, it\u2019s part of *every* Christian\u2019s tradition; we all go back to first century Jerusalem. The Canon makes more sense when you experience it in context, as part of the continuous flow of Orthodox prayer, liturgy, fasting, and sacraments. But I wanted to offer this introductory taste in hopes that it will leave some readers hungry for more. <\/p>\n

Kathryn Jean Lopez<\/a> of National Review<\/a> asks Frederica Mathewes-Green<\/a> questions about her new book<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1. What is \u201cthe Great Canon of St. Andrew\u201d and what\u2019s so great about it?
2. Who was it written for?
3. Who was St. Andrew?
4. What does St. Mary of Egypt have to do with Andrew and his canon?
5. Who is your book written for?
6. Are there aspects of the Canon that are peculiar to the Eastern Orthodox?
7. Is this the kind of spiritual writing that makes converts, or do you have to be pretty intensely prayerful already to get into it?
8. Can you \u201cread\u201d a book like this?
9. Uh, so \u201cForty Days,\u201d did you write this FOR Lent?
10. For folks who aren\u2019t into Lent, they might know it as the time when some of their friends don\u2019t drink. Something along those lines. Do you \u201cgive up\u201d stuff during Lent? How do you look at the forty days? How do you tend to describe it to the uninitiated?
11. What got you interested enough to write this book?
12. Besides your own book, of course, what will you be reading this Lent?<\/p>\n

(FM-G\u2019s answers available at subject link \u2014 or <\/em><\/span>here<\/em><\/span><\/a> for the lazy.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"