4/21/2012
Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky)
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This sermon was delivered by Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky) of blessed memory, later first hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, in the cathedral of Zhitomir, Ukraine, on April 20, 1903.
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Tell me, Orthodox Christians: If there were ever such a man who for a grave crime were sentenced by royal decree to eternal prison, and his kind master would ask of the king that he would be forgiven, and instead this master accepted his punishment upon himself, while the criminal remained free; and that this good master sent him this good news, in a letter saying “I freed you, and took upon myself your just punishment from the king”? Tell me, brothers, what would the emancipated criminal do with this treasured letter?
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People say: if we had seen Him we would not have denied Him. This is not true: the majority of those who denied Him had seen Him, and they denied Him because they did not love spiritual values, and the victory over the devil spoke but little to their hearts; they desired external success.
