Before the cross and the Gospel: Alexander Archpriest

At the Sunday evenings of the Great Lent in many churches of the Russian Orthodox Church, a special church service is served – a passion. A cross is carried out in the middle of the temple, an akathist is read to the passions of the Lord and the heads of the gospel, telling about the suffering and crucifixion of the Lord. And we stand and again and again experiencing these terrible and holy events. And this is our presentation before the cross and the gospel helps us to especially feel what the great sacrifice is brought for us.
This book contains the deep thoughts of one of the best preachers of our time, Archpriest Alexander Shargunov about the Cross of Christ, about the judgment of God over the world, that our God is the god of the suffering world, about joy in sorrows and meaning of suffering, about divine and human justice and what it means to follow Christ. And this book is intended for reading, of course, not only with a great post, because not only fasting we must come to the Lord.
Recommended by the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Author
Archpriest Alexander Shargunov
Editor
Petrova Tatyana
Publisher
Danilovsky Besight, 2012