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Verses: Let the world weep bitterly with our first parents, As fallen with them, fallen because of sweet food. On this day we commemorate the expulsion of the first-formed Adam from the paradise of delight, which our divine fathers established before the start of the holy Forty Days (Great Lent), thereby demonstrating how beneficial the…
Synaxarion for the Saturday of Cheesefare Week: All the Venerable Fathers Who Shone Forth in Ascetic Struggles The God-bearing fathers, through the preceding feasts, gradually instruct us and prepare us for the path ahead. They turn us away from pleasure and overeating, instill in us the fear of the coming Judgment, and at the same…
Priest Alexei Lopatin In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Dear brothers and sisters! Last Sunday was dedicated to an event that has not yet occurred but will inevitably take place and affect each of us—the Dread Judgment of the Lord. Today’s Sunday, which precedes Great…
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. (Matthew 6:14-15) Have you ever noticed how frequently the Holy Gospel speaks of the commandment of forgiveness? In the Lord’s Prayer, we ask that the Lord…
On the very threshold of Great Lent, the Church mentally returns us to the beginning of the world and humanity, recalling the expulsion of our first ancestors from the Garden of Eden, where they had been placed by the Creator. The forefather Adam and the wife given to him by God as “bone of his…
On Cheesefare Sunday, a Teaching of John Chrysostom on the Holy Fast Brothers, listen with understanding and discernment concerning this holy fast. For the prophet speaks about fasting: “In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee.” Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, the day of salvation…
On Cheesefare Saturday, a Teaching of John Chrysostom on Spiritual Profit The Lord said: If ye forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you; but if ye forgive not those who do evil, neither will your trespasses be forgiven (Matt. 6:14–15). By these words, the Lord God, as a loving Father, teaches us so…
On Friday of Cheesefare Week: A Teaching of Saint John Chrysostom on Spiritual Purity Let us learn, brethren, what it is that defiles a man, so that, having examined the evils, we may flee from them. For we see that many in the church hold to this custom: that they should come to church only…
On Wednesday of Cheesefare Week: A Teaching from a Spiritual Father to His Spiritual Children, from the Words of Saint John Chrysostom I desire your salvation, beloved one, and therefore I give you my blessing. You know, my son and child, born of the Spirit, that God has entrusted me with the talent of teaching…
by Metropolitan Korniliy (Titov) “The time is at hand, the beginning of spiritual struggles”—these words, brothers and sisters, we hear on the eve of the holy Great Fast. The holy Apostle Paul, in the Epistle to the Romans read today, writes: “The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast…