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[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Why we don’t fast during the week of the Publican and Pharisee, and other questions

Hieromonk Job (Gumerov)

Why don’t we observe the Wednesday and Friday fast during the week of the Publican and the Pharisee? Christ tells the parable of the Pharisee and the publican in the temple. The Pharisee says that he does this and that, including that he fasts two days out of the week. Tell me, please, what days of the week were these, and why were they fast days? Who are the Pharisees?

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The Message of Patriarch Theophilos III on the Start of Lent

Although we are called to practice proper human behavior both in and out of the time of fasting, intensifying it during this holy time affirms that fasting is a comprehensive state in which the human person bows to God's desire, is led by His teachings, prays to Him intensely, spreads love, renounces hatred and rancor and expels the whispering of Satan, aided by the spiritual power that results from approaching God through the fast that gives a mystical dimension to the Christian believer.

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“A proud faster makes himself like the demons, who never eat.”

Orthodox pastors at the beginning of Great Lent

Archpriest Vladislav Tsypin

Having cast out the unclean spirit from the demon-possessed youth, the Lord said to His disciples who had tried before Him to heal the unfortunate one but couldn’t: This kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting (Mt. 17:21), by this setting forth fasting as a means of spiritual warfare on the same level as prayer.

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“Fasting is Walking on Water”

Orthodox Pastors on Great Lent

Priest Nicholai Bulgakov

Fasting is a time of purification, repentance; a time that helps us leave this vain world in which we live from day to day without often thinking about what is most important. Time goes by and we are in the same place; the soul has not changed. So it would be good for us to make friends with fasting. After all, it gives us the most important thing—spiritual transformation.

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“We are all called to strive for perfection"

Priest Dimitry Shishkin

The main joy of the fast, strange as it sounds, consists in the possibility for our change and transformation. It is in the possibility to become something different.

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“If any fast is a joy, then the Great Fast is a great joy”

Orthodox Pastors at the Beginning of Great Lent

Deacon Valery Dukhanin

The Fast is always the possibility to become better, to conquer ourselves, to conquer our bad habits, organize ourselves for spiritual life. If the time of the fast did not come, we would just go on spinning like hamster in its wheel in our earthly affairs and rarely remember any kind of repentance.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

Lent: Time to Shake Off Life’s Irritations

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Forgiving others doesn’t mean that we will never be annoyed by them or that we will always be free of anger or irritation. And it doesn’t mean that we have to like everyone or accept the behavior of everyone else.

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The Meaning of Forgiveness Vespers

It is very characteristic what is written: "Forgive (συγχωρῶ) means to 'move forward' (χωρῶ) with God and with others." With forgiveness we do not only receive a simple absolution, which implies a legalistic concept of salvation.

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Blow The Trumpet in Zion

Fr. Barnabas Powell

All too often it’s easy to miss the warnings in my life because my life, my soul, my mind is flooded with my own “voice.” The selfish wants drown out that “still, small voice” that is screaming at me that I am going down a wrong path.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

Homily On The Meeting Of The Lord

Delivered by His Grace Bishop Atanasije (Jevtic), 1995 in Pozarevac

Bishop Atanasije (Jevtic)

Whenever we seek after something great, good, lasting, true, righteous, humanly, beautiful, holy, then we seek after the Face of God, we seek Christ – the Image of the Invisible God. Our people today are in this search.

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The Moral Path of Being

Fr. Stephen Freeman

If Christian morality is not a legal or forensic matter, how are we to think about moral behavior? Does the word have no use for Orthodox Christians? What do we think about when we confess our sins?

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Spiritual Counsels From Elder Paisius Olaru of Sihla Skete

When someone shames you, say that God commanded him to do it. When someone takes something of yours, God commanded him to take it, in order to make you a monk. When you are removed from a higher place, God changed your place so that you would change from your passions and bad habits.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

Sermon on the Day of the Russian New-Martyrs

Fr. Sergei Sveshnikov

The next time it seems to us that the cross that we are given is greater than we can bear, when not only the attainment of Christian virtues, but even the usual attendance at services and following the Church-established fasts seems unbearable, let us turn with fervent prayer for help to the Lord and to the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, who did not give only a day or an hour, but their whole lives to Christ.

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The Prodigal Son

A Homily on Luke 15:11-32

r. Dimitri Tsakas

Humility, repentance and then coming face to face with God. This is the journey that the Church takes us on before Lent. But today Jesus teaches us with symbols, People have got a problem with symbols in Christianity.

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We Can All be Considered Prodigal Sons

Fr. Vasile Tudora

I am sure many of us have felt that moment of change. For some it is the moment of conversion from a different religious background to Orthodoxy. For the Orthodox it is the moment when they actually realize what they were missing and then return to their roots. It is a powerful moment; it is a life changing moment.

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Sermon on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware)

Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) delivers his sermon on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son in the presence of Metropolitan Nicholas at the Sts. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Westland, MI.

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“For if we do not have this, all else is nothing”: A letter by St. Theophan the Recluse discovered

The letter is authentic and written by the holy hierarch’s hand. The piece of paper yellowed with age and folded in half into a small envelope has been preserved to our time since 1888.

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Living God’s Word

Fr. Silouan Benedict

The Word of God acts gently within your soul. God transforms us through his word, so it is very necessary to allow the Word of God to sink into you. And the right interpretation of the Word of God has to sink within you, not the word of God spoken by heretics and schismatics. The Orthodox Church helps you to know the Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth.

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The Unmoral Christian Revisited

Fr. Stephen Freeman

There is an abiding discomfort for many with my assertion that we generally do not see moral progress in our lives. That discomfort comes from many directions. Perhaps the most serious is the question that asks, “Then why bother? If we are not making progress in our battles with the passions, why make the effort?”

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Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee—Synaxarion

By the grace of God on this present day we begin the Triodion, the hymns of which were composed by many of our holy and God-bearing Fathers, inspired by the Holy Spirit according to their worthiness.

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