This sermon was given by Archpriest Seraphim Holland of the St. Nicholas Orthodox Church (ROCOR) in McKinney, Texas, last Sunday.
See also
“By the Waters of Babylon”
Archpriest Victor Potapov
“By the Waters of Babylon”For the Sunday of the Prodigal Son
It is just to such reflection that the Church calls us during the pre-Lenten period: to take a look at our sins and consider—have they not become the reason we are sad, despondent, bereft of joy, feeling that God is not as near as He had been before?
On Repentance and Lust
Archimandrite Ioannichie (Balan)
On Repentance and LustHomily on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son
Nowadays the passion of lust acts with excessive fury and zeal. This demonic spirit feels no sympathy for innocent babies, withered breasts or childless parents. It hardens mothers’ hearts into stone, turns spouses into murderers, and makes the young immoral. It defeats everyone to make them children of Hinnom.
The Only Thing That Can Save Us
Sermon for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son 2016
The Only Thing That Can Save UsSermon for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son 2016
So during the Lenten season ahead—and throughout all our remaining life in this present world—when we see our sinfulness, our brokenness, when we begin to know by bitter experience the tragedy of how drastically we have lost our way, let us not despair. Let us not wonder at it. Let us not ask: “where is the Lord?” He is walking this path of exile beside us. He has been this way before, even down to the lowest depths of Hades. He did not send us here to perish, but to walk with Him the only path that exists to His Father’s House.
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