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Fr. Jonathan Tobias

Everyone around you is your neighbor who needs friendship, and everyone bears the image of Christ – Who once called us His “friends.” Remember that wherever you are is your neighborhood, and you are that neighborhood’s Good Samaritan (as the vessel, of course, of the First One). When you talk to anyone this Lent in the world, you are conversing with someone who is immortal by grace. And every conversation either darkens the world (theirs and yours), or brightens it.

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

Return with the New Adam to Paradise: Homily for Forgiveness Sunday in the Orthodox Church

Fr. Philip LeMasters

The spiritual disciplines of Lent have nothing to do with legalism or punishing ourselves. Instead, they are tools to help us find healing and strength as we wear the robe of light, as we grow in our personal participation in the salvation that the Second Adam has brought to a world of despair and decay. Now is the time to strip ourselves of all that would hold us back from following our Lord to His cross and glorious resurrection, for it is through His Passion that we will enter into the fullness of the glory for which He created us in the first place.

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When A Man Is Distant From God and Then Prays

Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon

Not all men are in the same place with respect to prayer, but all are told to pray, and a like promise attends them all. The difference is in the form of the prayer, not the manner in which God hears the prayer. None of these prayers are refused. To one it will be granted, to another it will be opened, and the third is sure to find.

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Forgiveness Sunday Vespers

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

To forgive does not mean to forget what has happened between us, but to shoulder the weight of another person's frailty, or at times of another person's evil.

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Lenten Epistles of our Orthodox Hierarchs

Metropolitan Joseph , Archbishop Demetrios, Metropolitan Tikhon of All America and Canada, Archbishop Benjamin (Peterson), Bishop Gregory of Nyssa, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew , Abp. Michael (Dahulich), Archbishop Nicolae

Inspiring words from our Orthodox hierarchs in America and around the world to help guide us through our Lenten journey to the joyous Resurrection of Christ.

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It’s A Crying Shame

Fr. Stephen Freeman

Orthodox Christians make a beginning of their Lenten discipline with the forgiving of everyone for everything (theoretically). The ritual expression of forgiveness can easily and often be little more than a ritual. It reminds us of the need to forgive, but does not, on its own, achieve what it expresses. This should not be surprising – forgiveness is perhaps the most difficult spiritual undertaking.

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Facing Death With Detachment and Peace

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Aging perhaps makes us more realistic about our temporary sojourn on earth. We are God’s guests here, not the permanent residents

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Therapeutic Medicine

Abbot Tryphon

As we begin the Lenten Journey, it would be good for us to consider the use of a “prayer rule.” This “rule” is of critical importance, for it will help us develop the discipline we need to progress spiritually. It is one of the great tools the Orthodox Church has to offer, since it has been handed down from the Fathers of the Church. This “art of prayer,” comes directly to us from the experience of the Early Church.

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Lenten Message of His Eminence Archbishop Benjamin

Archbishop Benjamin (Peterson)

And second, the Fast is not about me. My fasting, my self-denial, my prayer, my repentance, indeed, all my effort, is not measured by how “good” it makes me. It is all measured in how much it makes me reflect Christ.

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Infant Baptism

Fr. John Whiteford

How can an involuntary child “put on Christ” if he had no say in the baptism? In what sense and in what way is baptism salvific if the child is unable to answer God with a good conscience? Fr. John Whiteford discusses the topic of infant baptism.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Diligence: Friday of Cheesefare Week

Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry

Why does the Church give us this passage to read at the threshold of Great Lent? Though its message was delivered long ago (520-480 BC), its word applies to our own experience of Lent. The prophet of the Lord calls us to the work of the fast. We are to review how we live our life in Christ. What were our former conditions? And more importantly, what is the new circumstance now in place as a result of God’s intervention?

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He Had to Become Like Us in Every Way

Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis

In His human experience, He did not succumb to temptation. He maintained His love for His Father at all times, He remained obedient at all times. He showed us what it is to love, and to empty oneself of all pride. Not only is Christ a faithful “high priest” in the service of God, but He also showed (and continually shows) us what mercy is.

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Prepare yourselves for spiritual combat

Fr. Michael Kochis

The Church calls on us to realize that as children of Adam and Eve, we are living outside of where we are meant to be – the existence we experience as normal is, in fact, abnormal. God did not create us to live out of Paradise. We are exiles. Great Lent is a blessed opportunity for us to return home to the overflowing love and mercy of the Father’s embrace.

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Judgment with a Mixed Bag

Fr. Stephen Freeman

But the Solzhenitsyn-inspired thought asked, “But what about those who sometimes act like sheep and sometimes act like goats?”

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The Last Judgment

Christianity is not a religion based on keeping laws, or even doing good things, admirable though these may be. Rather, it is based on relationship – our relationship with God and our relationship with those around us. And in this Gospel we see how these two elements are intimately connected.

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Praying for our Children, Part II

Elissa Bjeletich

As long as we think that we’re in charge, we don’t really offer our kids up to God. As usual, pride will block us up and only humility will open the doors. St. Porphyrios’ prayer is humble: “I entrust them to you. You gave them to me, but I am weak and unable to guide them, so please, illuminate them.” In humility, we weak ones hand our children over to God.

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Knowing Saints

Fr. Stephen Freeman

I have had occasion to be with a saint on at least three occasions. Mind you, this is my opinion since none of the three are canonized.

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Lenten Encyclical from Archbishop Demetrios

Archbishop Demetrios

Be faithful in prayer and worship. Keep the fast. Offer your time and resources to help those in need. Above all, seek the grace of God that your love may abound for Him and each other, and from the abundant blessings and spiritual fruit we receive, we will offer thanksgiving, glory, and praise to Him!

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OCA Diocese of NY/NJ: Archpastoral Letter for the Great Fast 2016

Abp. Michael (Dahulich)

One might ask, why should we do all of this? Why should we undergo this Lenten “struggle,” this podvig, anyway? The answer is to achieve our goal, the goal not only of Lent but of our entire lifetime – to come closer to Christ, to become more like God, to enter into eternal communion with the Holy Trinity. We want that because we know how much Jesus Christ, our Lord God and Savior, has loved us – with that love greater than any man has, to lay down His life for His friends (John 13:35). And so, let us “Let us set out with joy upon the season of the Fast, and prepare ourselves for spiritual combat” … let us undertake our Lenten podvig … to show our love for the God Who loves more than we love ourselves.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Why We Fast

Abbot Tryphon

Modern science sees the value of the Church’s tradition of fasting

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