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The Prodigal Son: The Only Aim of Great Lent

Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Egorievsk

The prodigal son found the path away from his destruction. From the spiritual point of view the older brother has only one way out—the one that the holy fathers of the Church suggest to us.

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Lost Innocence

Fr. Ted Bobosh

A week ago this past Sunday, we had the Gospel Lesson of the Publican and Pharisee . There were two hymns from the Matins Canon that caught my attention for their theological content.

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To Become Bearers of God

A Homily on the Meeting of the Lord

Archimdrite Kirill (Pavlov)

Righteous Symeon was found worthy to be such not only because he received the Youth in his arms, but particularly because he bore Christ in his heart together with the Father and Holy Spirit. Thereby, not only the elder Symeon has been granted the high dignity of bearing Christ in his arms and being a God-Receiver, but many others have been able to know this honor.

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The Meeting of the Lord

Archpriest Victor Potapov

As with all the sacred events celebrated by the twelve great feasts, the Meeting of the Lord also is rich in content that is difficult immediately to grasp. Let us dwell in thought only as it were on the historical meaning of the event.

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We are the Prodigal Son, We are the Older Brother

A Homily on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Surozh

And then the time comes for us to deeply and closely reflect upon ourselves, and understand that we have sinned against Heaven, sinned against our father, against our brother, against our loved ones, against our sister—against everyone around us. We have sinned—meaning we severed the tie, desiring to be free of them… And then the time comes to return: back home, there to where they fed us, gave generously to us, cared for us, and in the end, to God, the Font of all blessings.

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Choose Repentance Instead of Shame: Homily for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son in the Orthodox Church

Fr. Philip LeMasters

The prodigal son in today’s gospel reading provides a wonderful example of how to get over wounded pride and repent of even the most shameful acts.

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Fasting for Sanity

Fr. James Guirguis

This parable is about each of us. We have each been rebellious in our lives. We have each fought God in order to have freedom on our own terms.

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The Three Holy Hierarchs: an Organizer, a Contemplative, a Preacher

Archpriest Andrei Tkachev

Basil, Gregory, and John are so often remembered together that it’s difficult to think of them separately. However, they, like Peter and Paul, are strikingly different in many respects. Elucidating these contrasts does not destroy, but, on the contrary, underscores the unity which they were given in the Holy Spirit and which has organically entered into the consciousness of the Church.

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Homily on the Prodigal Son

St. Cyril of Alexandria

It is our duty, therefore, to conform ourselves to that which God wills: for He heals those who are sick; He raises those who are fallen; He gives a helping hand to those who have stumbled; He brings back him who has wandered; He forms anew unto a praiseworthy and blameless life those who were wallowing in the mire of sin; He seeks those who were lost; He raises as from the dead those who had suffered the spiritual death. Let us also rejoice: let us, in company with the holy angels, praise Him as being good, and loving unto men; as gentle, and not remembering evil. For if such is our state of mind, Christ will receive us.

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The Repentance and Cross Bearing of the New Martrys

Homily on the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee, and of the New Martrys and Confessors of the Russian Church, Sretensky Monastery, February 2017

Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Egorievsk

The whole country, its whole Orthodox part, was before the revolution studying the Law of God, and everyone went to Communion. But this means that there was something very wrong, something was the subject of an enormous mistake in the Church institution of that time. Legalism and formalism.

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To Obey like the Pharisee, to Repent like the Publican

Fr. Andrew Lemeshonok

We have to struggle with ourselves, with our “old self”, with our mercenariness, and with our primitive and limited views on what is happening to us and around us. And the holy Church teaches us how we should live. The Gospel tells about the two people who entered the temple. One of them was a zealous adherent of the law, who did everything right. But what did that lead to? To his arrogance and self-admiration.

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Cultivating Humility: Homily for the Sunday of the Pharisee and the Publican in the Orthodox Church

Luke 18: 10-14

Fr. Philip LeMasters

The hard truth is that we will never grow in Christ unless we intentionally take steps that help us grow in humility, that help us embrace the truth about where we stand before the Lord.

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Honor, Subversion and the Kingdom of God

Fr. Stephen Freeman

Many who read the New Testament see it as advocating for and supporting the oppressive structures of its time. They argue that it is patriarchal and pro-slavery.

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The Prophetic Sermons of a New Confessor: Archimandrite John Krestiankin

Priest Alexei Pikov

Today, on the Sunday of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, we are also remembering a true confessor of the faith who lived during those very serious times in Russia. Archimandrite John (Krestiankin) reposed on the Sunday of this commemoration, February 5, 2006.

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Two Paths of Spiritual Life

Homily on the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee, and the New Martyrs of Russia

Hieromonk Nikon (Parimanchuk)

And they took the first step of life in the Church when they accepted with their whole hearts the truth that all people are in sin and under the power of sin, and thus the freedom from sin that makes man perfect, wondrous, pious, meek and a friend of God is brought to pass through the fulfillment of the words of the Holy Gospel.Which words?

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The Parable of the Publican and the Pharisee

Archpriest Victor Potapov

These, then, are the two different states - on the one hand, there is the prayer beginning with thanksgiving: God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are. This is seemingly an invocation of God, but in actual fact it is a confirmation of his "ego", for the core of pride, according to Venerable John Climacus, is "the shameless parade of our labours".

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My Burden is Light...

Fr. Valery Zakharov

The humble are in Heaven while on earth. But how can we achieve this? How can we accept what God sends? Even today, despite the fact we have joined the Church a long time ago, we continue to consider sorrows and diseases to be some bad and sad moments of our lives, and death to be our main punishment.

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Democratic Madness

Fr. Stephen Freeman

Each person is his own authority. And I will add, that if every person is his own authority, then there is no authority.

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On Difficulties in Christian Life

Igumen Nektary (Morozov)

This is probably the first thing to which it would make sense to pay attention: As Christians and simply as adults, responsible people, we should not create hardships for ourselves artificially. Our lives are hard enough without that. Nevertheless, a person who categorically avoids whatever difficulties that may be rarely succeeds in life.

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Tithing and the Work of the Church

Fr. John Whiteford

When we tithe, we recognize that God is the source of all that we have, and by giving back the first ten percent, we give thanks to God, and show that we trust God to continue to provide for our needs, rather than clinging to what we have, because we have no such trust.

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