Two days ago, I asked about what remains for us of Lent after we reach Pascha. My answer was that the spirit of Lent is our life which we spend with the power of Pascha. Christianity encompasses two dimensions of commitment, one communal and one individual. One does not cancel the other out, and the ...
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Lent
Great Friday
O Jesus, a world that looks at things from below, whose eyes are estranged from the transcendence of Your gifts, is unable to look upward. On the day they crucified You, they told You to come down from the Cross. They stipulated that Your descent be a sign of Your glory. Literally, they said: "If ...
Read moreThe Will of God
The forty-day fast served to heighten awareness that “the will of God is our sanctification”. When the Church presented Jesus calling His disciples on the first Sunday of Lent, she revealed the inception of this saving will. On the second Sunday, she brought into view the second step that follows the disciples' call. Jesus was ...
Read morePrayer
Lent is also meant for us to pray and to love, to grow in our prayer and our love, our love for the Lord and for the brethren, both the great ones and the least ones (Matthew 25:40). Today I will talk to you about prayer. Only he who truly prays is actually fasting. Prayer ...
Read moreA Battlefield for the Light
Lent is described in tradition as a battlefield for spiritual warfares. It serves as a ground to expose darkness and repent of it. It is both a battlefield and a weapon. The darkness that besieges us in our days, is summoned by Lent to its tribunal for scrutiny. Weariness, sloth, anger, and doubt through which ...
Read moreDoctrine and Life
On the Sundays of Lent, the Church urges us to focus on the two aspects of commitment, doctrine and life. What I want to emphasize today is that the ultimate purpose of this focus is to embrace orthodoxy regardless of circumstances. Nothing we know has any meaning if we do not believe that orthodoxy is ...
Read moreAppointments with Glory
Lent is an icon of commitment. One of the things it requires us to be strong in is that we are a bridge to God. There are always people around us who do not care about God or who are limping in their commitment to Him. I am talking today about those who are our ...
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