Listen Carefully to This, and It Will Help You Immensely to Enter Great Lent –Metropolitan Demetrius

Описание: Listen Carefully to This, and It Will Help You Immensely to Enter Great Lent – Sermon by Metropolitan Demetrius of America. “If there’s any time to be a Christian, it’s now. If there’s any time to repent, it’s now.” As we stand on the threshold of Great Lent, Metropolitan Demetrius calls us to examine a painful truth:

“When we think about what we could be and what we have become… it’s a tragic story… especially when we persist in what we are when we are fallen.”

This is not merely reflection — it is a call to illumination. The Holy Fathers speak of the “illumination of the mind,” warning us about the thoughts that come “from an alien source.” The chaos around us, he reminds us, is rooted in the deeper tragedy of our exile and the subtle deception of the evil one — who “oftentimes [appears] as something righteous, when it is actually catastrophic.” The safe path is humility:

The Lesson of Forgiveness: Saint Nikephoros

On Forgiveness Sunday, we are given the powerful example of Saint Nikephoros. One man outwardly righteous refused forgiveness — and lost grace. The other, who humbled himself and asked forgiveness, received it and became the martyr.

Consecrate a Fast

Repentance and crucifixion “go hand in hand.” To repent is to crucify pride, judgment, entitlement, ego. Like the publican who cried, “God, be gracious to me, a sinner,” we must connect through humility. Pride disconnects us. Humility restores us.

Let This Be the Best Lent of Our Lives.
“We owe God absolutely everything.”

May we forgive from the heart.
May we fast “as a fruit of repentance.”
May we be prepared for the Passion and the Resurrection.

And may we, through repentance and grace, be deemed worthy to behold His holy Resurrection.
Amen.

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