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The First Week of Great Lent: Advice from pastors

Igumen Nektary (Morozov), Archpriest Igor Shestakov, Archpriest Vasily Mazur, Priest Vladimir Voitov

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The First Week of Great Lent: Advice from pastors

Igumen Nektary (Morozov), Archpriest Igor Shestakov, Archpriest Vasily Mazur, Priest Vladimir Voitov

With whatever inner disposition we begin any task—that is how we will carry it out. It is the same for the fast: with whatever disposition we enter the fast—that is probably how we will go through it. That means that we need to relate to the first week of Lent with particular responsibility.

Monday of the First Week of Great Lent

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Monday of the First Week of Great Lent

True fasting is putting away evil deeds. Forgive your neighbor his offences, forgive him his debts. “Do not fast in judgments and fights.” You may not eat meat, but you devour your brother. You may not drink wine, but you do not refrain from offence. You may wait till evening to take food, but you spend the day in places of judgment.

Open to Me the Doors of Repentance, O Lifegiver

A Homily for Clean Monday

St. Innocent of Kherson

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Open to Me the Doors of Repentance, O Lifegiver

A Homily for Clean Monday

St. Innocent of Kherson

Therefore, the first and last hope of those who are truly repenting is not themselves, not their minds or hearts, but the grace of God.

Tuesday of the first week of Great Lent

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Tuesday of the first week of Great Lent

Poor Lent! How much chiding, insult, and persecution it endures! But you see, it still stands, by the grace of God. And how else could it be? It has strong support! The Lord fasted, the Apostles fasted, and quite a lot at that, as the Apostle Paul said of himself, in fastings often (2 Cor. 11:27). And all the saints kept strict fasts, so that if we had an opportunity to look over the habitations of paradise we would not find there a single inhabitant who was alien to fasting.

Have Mercy on Me, O God, Have Mercy On Me!

A Homily on Clean Tuesday

St. Innocent of Kherson

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Have Mercy on Me, O God, Have Mercy On Me!

A Homily on Clean Tuesday

St. Innocent of Kherson

Yes, my brethren, this prayer comes to an end at the universal Dread Judgment of God, not before: It will stop when the fate of every one of us will be decided forever, before the face of the whole universe.

Wednesday of the First Week of Great Lent

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Wednesday of the First Week of Great Lent

Let us keep the Fast not only by refraining from food, but by becoming strangers to all the bodily passions; that we who are enslaved to the tyranny of the flesh may become worthy to partake of the Lamb, the Son of God, slain of His own will for the sake of the world, and spiritually may celebrate the feast of the Savior’s Resurrection from the dead. So shall we be raised on high in the glory of the virtues, and through our righteous actions we shall give joy to the Lord who loves mankind (Aposticha at Vespers for Wednesday).

Homily on Wednesday of the First Week of Great Lent. On the Danger of Hypocrisy

St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

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Homily on Wednesday of the First Week of Great Lent. On the Danger of Hypocrisy

St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

Vainglory and its offspring, hypocrisy, are ruinous at their very root—they deprive a person of all heavenly reward, representing the vain human praise he has chosen and desired as the only reward. The Lord condemned vainglorious hypocrites.

Thursday in the First Week of Great Lent

St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov), Archimandrite Lazar (Abashidze)

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Thursday in the First Week of Great Lent

St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov), Archimandrite Lazar (Abashidze)

Often the mind does not remember a sin committed, or may hardly recognize it as a sin. However, the soul remembers—it feels hell inside, it languishes and suffers, and the whole person is filled with a kind of melancholy, anxiety, and despondency.

Friday of the First Week of Great Lent

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Friday of the First Week of Great Lent

When we loved sin, these sins were living boughs on the tree of our life and they fed from it. When we turned away from them, became disgusted with them, repented and confessed, we thereby severed them from ourselves. At the moment of absolution they fell away from us. Now they are dry branches, and the Lord comes to scorch in us this forbearance of transgression. Through the absolution of sins He is preparing a worthy dwelling place for Himself in us. —St. Theophan the Recluse

Saturday of the First Week, and the Sweetness of Boiled Wheat

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Saturday of the First Week, and the Sweetness of Boiled Wheat

Fifty years after the death of St Theodore, the emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363), wanting to commit an outrage upon the Christians, commanded the city-commander of Constantinople during the first week of Great Lent to sprinkle all the food provisions in the marketplaces with the blood offered to idols. St Theodore appeared in a dream to Archbishop Eudoxius, ordering him to inform all the Christians that no one should buy anything at the marketplaces, but rather to eat cooked wheat with honey (koliva).

The First Week of Great Lent: Pastoral Advice

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Taking up Our Own Crosses

First Homily on the Lenten Season

St. Augustine

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Taking up Our Own Crosses

First Homily on the Lenten Season

St. Augustine

Today we enter upon the observance of Lent, the season now presented to us in the passage of the liturgical year. An appropriately solemn sermon is your due so that the word of God, brought to you through my ministry, may sustain you in spirit while you fast in body and so that the inner man, thus refreshed by suitable food, may be able to accomplish and to persevere courageously in the disciplining of the outer man. For, to my spirit of devotion, it seems fitting that we, who are about to honor the Passion of our crucified Lord in the very near future, should fashion for ourselves a cross of the bodily pleasures in need of restraint.

On Fasting and its Benefits

Homily on Tuesday of the First Week at Great Compline

Archimdrite Kirill (Pavlov)

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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.

The First Week of Great Lent: The Dawn of Abstinence

Archpriest Gregory Debolsky

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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.

Lent with Children: They Should Remember That it’s Warm and Good with God

Maria Pospelova

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Lent with Children: They Should Remember That it’s Warm and Good with God

Maria Pospelova

Even before Orthodox blogging became popular, a young mother from Moscow, Maria Pospelova, had registered on Instagram. Through photographs of her everyday life she showed how bright and lively our Orthodoxy can be.

“That Thou Might Be a Great Trader”

Thursday of the first week of Lent

Igumen Tikhon (Borisov)

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“That Thou Might Be a Great Trader”

Thursday of the first week of Lent

Igumen Tikhon (Borisov)

Lent is a space of love, kindness, compassion, self-reproach, leniency towards others, penitential tears, watching your heart and soul!

Sermon on Wednesday of the First Week of Great Lent

Delivered March 1, 2023, in Christ the Savior Cathedral, Moscow

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill

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Sermon on Wednesday of the First Week of Great Lent

Delivered March 1, 2023, in Christ the Savior Cathedral, Moscow

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill

For this reason, we have Great Lent, so that through self-restriction, we might discover the opportunity to see the Lord, to have contact with sanctity, and to feel His grace.

Stepping on the Path of Lent

Monday of the First Week of Lent

Igumen Tikhon (Borisov)

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Stepping on the Path of Lent

Monday of the First Week of Lent

Igumen Tikhon (Borisov)

Lent is an amazing opportunity for each one of us, for each member of the Church, to escape from the deadening vanity, running around, chattering, and the endless pursuit of some dubious “values”.

Great Lent Is a Time to Test and Amend Ourselves

A Homily for Clean Friday

Archbishop Evlampy (Pyatnitsky)

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Great Lent Is a Time to Test and Amend Ourselves

A Homily for Clean Friday

Archbishop Evlampy (Pyatnitsky)

Who doesn’t need to think about themselves? Who doesn’t need to delve into his own heart? Who doesn’t need to look at the inner state of his life and works?

Great Lent Is a Time of Necessary Spiritual Sorrows

A Homily for Clean Thursday

Archbishop Evlampy (Pyatnitsky)

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Great Lent Is a Time of Necessary Spiritual Sorrows

A Homily for Clean Thursday

Archbishop Evlampy (Pyatnitsky)

Let us traverse the path of the Fast as the path of the grace-filled purification of our souls and bodies.

Lent as a Remembrance of the Savior’s Forty-Day Fast

A Homily for Clean Wednesday

Archbishop Evlampy (Pyatnitsky)

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Lent as a Remembrance of the Savior’s Forty-Day Fast

A Homily for Clean Wednesday

Archbishop Evlampy (Pyatnitsky)

The Lord Jesus spent the entire time of His forty-day fast in the wilderness, in deep stillness and solitude.

A Time for Healing Our Spiritual Ailments

A Homily for Clean Tuesday

Archbishop Evlampy (Pyatnitsky)

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A Time for Healing Our Spiritual Ailments

A Homily for Clean Tuesday

Archbishop Evlampy (Pyatnitsky)

The holy Church has been preparing us for this time for a while, as a great and special endeavor for all Christians.

The Essence of Great Lent

Archpriest Victor Potapov

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The Essence of Great Lent

Archpriest Victor Potapov

Great Lent proclaims the Good News that man is a child of God, by which God has forever united Himself with His creation.

Let Us Enter the Fast With Joy

A Homily for Clean Monday

Archbishop Evlampy (Pyatnitsky)

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Let Us Enter the Fast With Joy

A Homily for Clean Monday

Archbishop Evlampy (Pyatnitsky)

This pledge of love is expected and required, and even lovingly entreated of us by Christ—the Divine lover of our souls!

Let Us Embark Joyfully on the Path of the Holy Forty Days Fast

Homily on Forgiveness Sunday

Archbishop Evlampy (Pyatnitsky)

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Let Us Embark Joyfully on the Path of the Holy Forty Days Fast

Homily on Forgiveness Sunday

Archbishop Evlampy (Pyatnitsky)

Great is the path ahead, both in length of time, and especially in importance of spiritual labors commanded of us by the Church.

Do You Want to Fast Truly?

A Homily for Clean Thursday

St. Innocent of Kherson

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Do You Want to Fast Truly?

A Homily for Clean Thursday

St. Innocent of Kherson

This verse can rightly be called a teaching of the Church for all holy fasts.

The First Week of Great Lent

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