The Way of the Lord: Through the Triodion and Pentecostarion

by Zacharias Zacharou

The Church has established the feasts throughout the year as landmarks for the renewal of grace and the regeneration of the life of her members. The greatest landmarks of renewal for the faithful are, on the one hand, the period of the Triodion, which brings forth the grace of entering into the living Presence of the Risen Lord, and, on the other hand, the period of the Pentecostarion, which leads to the fulfilment of the promise of the Father in the gift of the Paraclete. The asceticism of Great Lent could be described as ‘negative’ or ‘apophatic,’ as it aims at stripping away the old self of the passions so that the ascetic of godliness, being free, may be able to run ‘the way of the divine commandments’ (Ps. 119:32) and follow Christ ‘whithersoever He may go’ (Rev. 14:4). From the night of Pascha, another kind of asceticism begins—not ‘negative,’ but ‘positive’ or ‘cataphatic’—which trains man in the expectation of the promise of the Father and fervent thirst for the grace of the Holy Spirit.

139 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2024

About the author

See also: Ζαχαρίας Ζάχαρου and Zaharia Zaharou


Father Zacharias is a disciple of Saint Sophrony the Athonite - the Father founder of the Community of Saint John the Baptist, Essex, UK. He studied theology at the Orthodox Theological Institute of Saint Sergius in Paris and at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has lived all his monastic life in the monastery of Saint John the Baptist in Essex where he serves as a spiritual Father and minister of the word of God to his brethren and the people that come to him.