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A Homily on the Saturday of Great Martyr Theodore the Tyro (“the Recruit”)

Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)

Divine grace is indeed the real meat and drink for all of us. If we deprive ourselves of this grace, then anything else that we will achieve and acquire in our life will have no meaning—it will only lead us further and further away from our salvation and Christ, from communion with God.

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Let Charity Be Obtained By Fervent Prayer

Fifth Homily on the Lenten Season

St. Augustine

Wherefore, those who refrain from flesh meat in order to seek other kinds of food more difficult to obtain and more costly make a great mistake. For this is not undertaking abstinence, but simply varying one’s luxury.

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Preparing for Confession

St. John of Kronstadt, Metropolitan Innocent of Moscow

Now tell me: Is Confession profitable or needful? Certainly it is profitable and even essential; because, just as it is impossible to cleanse a vessel without ridding it of all uncleanness, so it is impossible to purge your soul of sins without confession.

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That Your Prayer May Proceed in Peace

Fourth Homily on the Lenten Season

St. Augustine

It is truly a kind of obligation to increase one’s almsdeeds during these days. For where do you expend what you deprive yourself of by abstinence more justly than in pity?

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A Time of Healing

Words from Patriarch Kirill on Great Lent

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill

Great Lent is the time when, reflecting upon our inner life, testing our conscience, we must begin to heal ourselves, through the correction of our mind, through the training of our senses, and through the training of our will.

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Beginning the God-Pleasing Lent

Fr. Andrew Lemeshonok

With God’s help we are beginning Great Lent. We have to start to work on ourselves, to set our thoughts in order. Our inner man should be restored. All our thoughts and feelings are devastated, tangled and crushed by sin. How can we live in such a condition and say that we are Christians?

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He Gave Himself as Food For Us

Third Homily on the Lenten Season

St. Augustine

What greater mercy could there be than that the Creator be created, the Ruler be served, the Redeemer be sold, the Exalted be humbled, and the Reviver be killed? In regard to almsgiving, we are commanded to give bread to the hungry, but He first gave Himself over to cruel enemies for us so that He might give Himself as food to us when we were hungry. We are commanded to receive the stranger; for our sake He came unto his own and his own received him not.

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Entering Into Great Lent

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Things around us change, and we change in this process as well. This is what makes repentance and forgiveness possible. We are journeying to the Kingdom of God, to the eschaton, to heaven, to God’s Paradise.

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Arise O Ye Sluggish Soul

Second Homily on the Lenten Season

St. Augustine

Let not your fasting be of the kind condemned by the Prophet when he said: Not this fast have I chosen, saith the Lord. For He denounces the fasts of quarrellers; He seeks those of the devout. He denounces those who oppress and seeks those who release. He denounces those who stir up hostilities and seeks those who set free. For, during these days, you restrain your desires from lawful pursuits that you may not do what is unlawful.

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The Word of Patriarch Kirill at Forgiveness Vespers 2011

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill

This is why repentance is at the center of our Great Lenten endeavors. To help man repent before God, the Church introduces him to the special, grace-filled power of the Lenten services and prayers, and of the frequent communion of the Holy Mysteries of Christ. The time of Lent is the time of purifying the soul; it is the time when we prepare ourselves for receiving the Kingdom of God.

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The Danger and Shame of Forgiveness

Fr. Stephen Freeman

The teaching of the Orthodox spiritual fathers is that we should forgive everyone for everything. Only in this can we be “like our Father in heaven.” But make no mistake: it is scary, hard, and without promise of safety or reward.

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Taking up Our Own Crosses

First Homily on the Lenten Season

St. Augustine

Today we enter upon the observance of Lent, the season now presented to us in the passage of the liturgical year. An appropriately solemn sermon is your due so that the word of God, brought to you through my ministry, may sustain you in spirit while you fast in body and so that the inner man, thus refreshed by suitable food, may be able to accomplish and to persevere courageously in the disciplining of the outer man. For, to my spirit of devotion, it seems fitting that we, who are about to honor the Passion of our crucified Lord in the very near future, should fashion for ourselves a cross of the bodily pleasures in need of restraint.

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Jesus Christ: Heart Surgeon

The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew. (6:14-21)

Fr. James Guirguis

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” These are the words of our Lord God and savior Jesus Christ given to us today as we are now at the edge and preparing to leap into Great and Holy Lent. Our Lord has this amazing way of reorienting our thinking and even removing our blindness in order to help us to see.

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Cheesefare Sunday. The Gospel on Fasting

From the Collected Works of St. Nicholai (Velimirovich) published by Sretensky Monastery

St. Nicholai Velimirovich

To not give in to the enemy—that is the main rule for those who are fighting a war. An army commander warns every soldier ahead of time about the threat of enemy subterfuge, so that they would not be deceived and taken captive. A soldier left alone, hungry, shivering and without warm clothing undergoes a strong temptation to give himself up to the enemy. The cunning adversary will take advantage of his situation with all possible means.

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The Apple of the Almighty’s Eye

Deacon Pavel Serzhantov

As long as there are repenting sinners on the earth, as long as there is a remnant of the people of God, the history of salvation is not finished. The Lord is continuing to save people. Do we not read about the apple of the eye of the Most High in the New Testament? The Savior says in a parable of the Heavenly Kingdom, For many are called, but few are chosen (Mt. 22:14). The Lord highly values every one of us; the hairs are numbered on the heads of the elect.

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Can the Dead Repent?

Fr. John Whiteford

If someone dies without repentance, is it possible for such a person to repent after death? Fr. John Whiteford answers this question through the writings of the holy fathers of the Church.

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Seeing the Son of Man in Every Man

The reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew (25:31-46)

Fr. James Guirguis

The teachings of Our Lord, God and savior Jesus Christ are often quite difficult for us. In fact, it cannot be any other way since God is speaking to man. God is attempting to raise man from his earthly nature which makes him similar to the beasts, and He is trying to raise him to the level and stature which alone is God’s. We do not take lightly the idea that God desires to call us “sons and daughters.”

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On the Last Times, the Antichrist, and the End of the World

St. Ephraim the Syrian

We have already told you that the end of the world is near, the consummation remains. Has not faith withered away among mankind?

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Why a Fast Free Week Before Lent?

Fr. Ted Bobosh

The Synaxarion says the fast free week is good for the monk to remind them not to become proud and arrogant because of his fasting discipline .

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On the Commemoration of the Dead

Hieromonk Job (Gumerov)

How can we help our loved ones who have departed this life? Hieromonk Job (Gumerov) talks about the commemoration of the dead.

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