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[[Image:Gregory Palamas Dionysiou.jpg|right|frame|St. Gregory Palamas]]
The '''Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas''' is the Second Sunday of [[Great Lent]]. It commemorates St [[Gregory Palamas]] (+1359) . It is between the [[Sunday of Orthodoxy]] and [[Sunday of the Holy Cross]].
==Spiritual themeThemes==Each of the Sundays of Great Lent has its own special themethemes. They can be seen as historical and spiritual. This Sunday’s theme is that men can become divine through the grace of God in the Holy Spirit. It was St. Gregory who bore witness that by [[prayer]] and [[fasting]] human beings can become participants of the uncreated light of God's divine glory even in this life.
This Sunday was originally dedicated to St [[Polycarp of Smyrna]] ([[February 23]]).
=== Spiritual theme ===
The spiritual theme, adds to the First Sunday of Great Lent’s theme, ''faith''. In addition to faith, one needs ''effort''. The scripture readings are [[Hebrews]] 1:10-2:3 and [[Gospel of Mark| Mark]] 2:1-12. The [[epistle]] says to ''give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away… how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?'' And the Gospel lesson has the image of ''effort and desire'' in the paralytic who is brought to Christ through the roof.
==Hymns==
[[Troparion]] (Tone 8)
:So that we may sing to you: "Rejoice, preacher of grace."
==Source==
Great Lent, Journey to Pascha, By [[Alexander Schmemann]] (1974) St Vladimir's Seminary Press - ISBN 0913836044
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