Alive from the Dead
Homilies on Great Lent
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During Great Lent, the pure Church reminds us that in this present world we are ‘strangers and sojourners,’ that on the earth of corruption we have ‘no continuing city’. Creating the appropriate spiritual conditions, it offers us the privilege to walk, even in our small measure, the way of the Lord, which leads through death to the fulness of indestructible life. The purpose of Great Lent is to give us a small taste of death, to find our deep heart, and thus to prepare us to enter into the living Presence of the Risen Lord. Each Sunday of this period is like an especial feast. The atmosphere in the bosom of the Church is stirred up and filled with sorrowful joy. The desire for the Bridegroom Jesus weaves the bright garment of the soul so that we may enter, bearing crowns, into the Pascha of our Lord and God. Although the Resurrection of Christ took place once and for all, it is mystically repeated in the souls of the faithful by the power of the Holy Spirit. We imitate ‘as much as possible’ the sufferings, the virtue, the love, the Cross of the Lord, and He grants us the spoils of His victory: eternal life and immortality.
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CONTENTS
Forward
Introduction
The Summons for our Heavenly Return
Continuing in the Invocation of the Name of the Lord Jesus
THE SUNDAY OF ORTHODOXY
Orthodox Faith and Holy Life
Discipleship to Christ
Faith and the Renewal of the Heart
The Image of Christ in the Heart of Man
THE SUNDAY OF SAINT GREGORY PALAMAS
Holiness, the Vision of the World to Come
The Mystery of Grace
On the Holy Inner Life
The Tension of Hesychia
On the Uncreated Light of the Coming Kingdom
THE SUNDAY OF THE CROSS
The Cross of Keeping the Commandments
The Cross of Christ, A Pre-eternal Mystery
Discipleship to the Cross
The Cross, the True Victory
The Cross of Spiritual Vision
The Two Crosses of Ascetical Practice
The Cross of Theoria in Saints Silouan and Sophrony
THE SUNDAY OF SAINT JOHN OF THE LADDER
The Beatitudes
The Great Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete
THE SUNDAY OF SAINT MARY OF EGYPT
Seeking Thrones
The Cup of Christ
PALM SUNDAY
A Glimpse of Glory
‘Rejoice in the Lord alway’
HOLY WEEK
Behold the Bridegroom Cometh
The Mystery of Life
The Cross, the Glory of Christ and the Salvation of the World
THE RESURRECTION
‘Through the Cross is joy come in all the world’
Index of Scriptural References
| Weight | 0.814 kg |
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| Dimensions | 21.5 × 15.8 × 3.5 cm |
| Author | Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou |
| Language | English |
| Book cover | Hardback Clothbound with Dust Jacket, Paperback |
| Pages | 541 |
| Publisher | Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist |
| Edition | 1st edition |
| Publication Year | Reprinted 2024 |
| ISBN | 978-1-909649-97-2 |
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Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou
Father Zacharias studied theology at the Orthodox Theological Institute of Saint Sergius in Paris and at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has lived all his monastic life in the monastery of Saint John the Baptist in Essex where he serves as a spiritual Father and minister of the word of God to his brethren and the people that come to him. Read more…
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