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Instruction on the Second Week of Great Lent. The Meaning of the Fast for Man

St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

The podvig of fasting does not belong exclusively to the body; the podvig of fasting is beneficial and needed not only for the body; it is beneficial mainly for the mind and heart.

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St. Gregory Palamas: A Rare Case in Tradition

Deacon Pavel Serzhantov

An ascetic who has been accounted worthy of passionlessness can thereafter taste of the experience of pure prayer. His mind “transcends all things” in prayer and renounces all perceptions of created beings and adores the Uncreated God, and the yet higher union with God is possible. Those who have been illumined by the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, have come to know Him and contemplate the Uncreated Light.

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The Passion of Ambition (Love of Power), and the Ability to Guard the Lips

An explanation of the prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian, Parts 3 and 4

St. Luke, Archbishop of Crimea

Love of power is against the spirit of the Gospel, against the spirit of humility. Nevertheless this passion has a grip on everyone, and there is no one who is not infected with it—even little children.

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Terrible is the spirit of despondency

An explanation of the prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian, Part 2

St. Luke, Archbishop of Crimea

If you don’t turn from sorrow for the world to sorrow for God, you will perish! Remember the seriousness of despondency. Remember that the heart of a Christian should be filled with the joy of reaching for the light; it should be foreign to the sadness that fills the hearts of sinners.

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Reflecting on Hebrews 11:24-12:2

Fr. Ted Bobosh

For those of us who like to revel that we live in the richest country in the world and the richest country in the history of the world, Moses would say to us, better to choose affliction and suffering “with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin.”

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Taste and See That the Lord is Good

Archimandrite Andreas (Konanos)

It’s one thing when someone tells you about God, and another when God Himself tells you in your heart, when He whispers something to you. There’s a huge difference.

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Ontological Equality and Hierarchical Subordination

Fr. Lawrence Farley

If there is one thing that is lamentably common in almost all feminist writing it is the apparent inability to reconcile the complementary concepts of ontological equality and hierarchical subordination.

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An Explanation of the Prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian

Idleness—the mother of sin

St. Luke, Archbishop of Crimea

Why does St. Ephraim the Syrian begin his prayer with a request about idleness, as if there are no worse faults?

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The Uncreated Map: Christ as the Light of Yoga

Joseph Magnus Frangipani

Just as the sign of the Cross corresponds to the Giver of Life, Jesus Christ, signs prevalent throughout yoga correspond to the influence of Shiva, Lord of Death. These signs and patterns include diagrams and amulets supposedly possessing occult powers in astrological and magical forms, and are known as mantras, mandalas, and yantras.

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Wherein Lies the Triumph of Orthodoxy?

Priest Nicholai Bulgakov

The Triumph of Orthodoxy is in that the gates of Hell, as the Lord foretold, have not overcome the Church He created, although the powers of evil have sought for these past 2,000 years to destroy it. They still have not given up their insane hope for it. But the Church of Christ lives, and is even growing before our eyes. People pray, confess, commune, baptize their children, venerate its sacred objects, and are saved. It’s a great Triumph!

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Restoration, Not Escape: Homily for the First Sunday of Lent in the Orthodox Church

Hebrews 11:24-26, 32-40; John 1:43-51

Fr. Philip LeMasters

The way to find joy is not by imagining that we can run away from our problems. It is, instead, to find healing for our souls, which means becoming more beautiful living icons of Christ in the midst of life as we know it.

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The First Week of Great Lent: More Pastoral Advice

Lent is a time of conscious effort, which helps us acquire another view on the world—that which the Lord calls the Kingdom of God within us.

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On Fasting and its Benefits

Homily on Tuesday of the First Week at Great Compline

Archimdrite Kirill (Pavlov)

The Church combined weeping over sins with fasting, for fasting gives our repentance wings and bears it upward to God’s Throne. The labor of fasting is sacred and quite ancient.

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The First Week of Great Lent: The Dawn of Abstinence

Archpriest Gregory Debolsky

The first week of the Holy Forty Days of Lent, in the words of our pious ancestors and all Orthodox Christians, is called the dawn of abstinence, the week of purity.

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Don’t Judge!

Archpriest Andrei Ovchinnikov

All of us are well aware of the commandment from the Gospel, Judge not, and ye shall not be judged (Lk. 6:37). But we know by our life experience that it is this commandment that we break most often.

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The First Week of Great Lent: Pastoral Advice

Pravoslavie.ru asked several pastors to give a few words about what is the main thing, in their view, that should fill a Christian’s life in the days of Great Lent, to offer something from personal experience, to help those Christians engulfed by cares to determine their spiritual program—the maximum and minimum—during this time.

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The “Punishment” of Adam and Eve

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Why can’t we enter heaven without dying?

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To Become an Heir of God Himself

A Sermon on the Expulsion of Adam—Forgiveness Sunday

Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov)

Everyone should, if he makes an effort towards it, not just return to the first state, before the Fall, but moreover must become an heir of God Himself. This is what the Lord God created man for. It’s no wonder that Adam was seduced by the cunning promise to become “like God.” But this is God’s purpose in relation to man—the elevation to the infinite deity of a man filled with faith in Christ. This is the purpose of creation.

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The healing power of forgiveness

Fr. James Guirguis

These are precious words of our Lord Jesus Christ and they remind us that what is contained within the 4 gospels is more important than anything that has ever been written in history.

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The most unique feature of the Church

Sergei Komarov

Apostle Paul told us about the ability of the Church to form itself. What does he mean?

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