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The Lamentation of Adam and Eve (Abridged from “The Expulsion of Adam” Feb. 26)

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Today in our reading of Genesis 3:21-4:7, we hear the lamentation of Adam and Eve who are driven out of the Garden of Eden because of their sin. This is the season to confess that we too have rejected the love, we have offended the righteousness, and we have turned our back on the goodness of our God. It is the time to wake up to the truth that like our first ancestors, we stand outside the gates of Paradise and must weep for what we have done. We should lament because of the remembrance of what we once had and lost. We should be like the People of God who wept when they remembered Zion (Psalm 137:1). Likewise, we…

Bonus: the Expulsion of Adam from Paradise (Sun. Feb. 26)

· Fr. Basil
On the last Sunday before Great Lent, we recall the eviction of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. Accordingly, the hymns for this day are filled with lamentation. Thus in Matins, we hear, “In times of old did Adam sit and cry in sorrow opposite the delights he had in Paradise; his hands did upon his forehead strike, as he said this: O merciful Lord, have mercy on me who have fallen” (GOA Digital Chant Stand) The Lamentations of Adam and Eve Adam and Eve shed bitter tears of anguish because they were thrown out of the Garden the Lord God had prepared for them. From now on, suffering, death, and corruption would be their inheritance and not…