Prayer for Humility is the beginning of True Repentance
On the Sunday just past, Zacchaeus taught us about desire for Christ and overcoming everything about our fallen human nature that keeps us from seeing Him. And his personal strength of unrestrained...
View ArticleReturn from Exile: on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son
The Following is an excerpt from Great Lent, by Alexander Schmemann From Chapter 2: Preparation for Lent On the third Sunday of preparation for Lent, we hear the parable of the Prodigal Son (LK....
View ArticleLove without limits: Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) on the Sunday of the...
God is seeking us far more than we are seeking Him. God does not just come out to meet us half way, He comes out far more. If we take one step towards Him, He takes a hundred towards us. So, today’s...
View ArticleForgiveness Sunday – The Expulsion of Adam from Paradise
The Sunday before the beginning of the great lent has two themes: one theme is the expulsion of Adam from Paradise and the other theme is forgiveness. In popular terms in Orthodox tradition, this...
View ArticleThe Armour of Abstinence
There is a big difference between can’t and won’t. More often will we hear the former rather than the latter. Won’t is much more decisive; it’s final. Can’t, on the other hand, is an excuse which can...
View ArticleRepentance is a Personal Matter
Repentance is a personal matter. For I know mine iniquity, and my sin is ever before me (Psalm 50). Therefore the Great Canon calls upon God from the first person: “Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy...
View ArticlePreparing for Confession
“This day is good, it is the day of purification.” This is a time when we can set aside the heavy days of sin, break the chains of iniquity: “to raise the tabernacle that is fallen, and close up the...
View ArticleThe Triumph of Orthodoxy is not the Triumph of the Orthodox over other people
We are keeping today, as every year at the end of the first week of Lent, the Feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy. And every year we must give thought to what is meant, not only as a historical event,...
View ArticleHow Not to Forget Christ among Everyday Cares
The end of Lent is not an appeal to spiritual lassitude. I think there is only one way to never forget Christ, and that is what the Old Testament calls “walking before God,” when a person dedicates...
View ArticleAt the Heart of Lent
Years ago, I heard a statement from an American monk: “The contemplative need go no further than his own heart to find the source of all violence in the world.” It struck me as true then and has only...
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