Archbishop Averky (Taushev)
This sermon was delivered by the ever-memorable Archbishop Averky (Taushev) of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in 1971. Many Orthodox were very concerned about the formation of new, ecumenical endeavors, especially the release of mutual excommunications between Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople and the Roman Catholic Pope Paul VI, and the entry of a number of Local Orthodox Churches into the World Council of Churches. Meetings were also being held in preparation for what would finally be called the Council of Crete.
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St. Augustine
These holy days which we are devoting to the observance of Lent remind me to speak to you about fraternal agreement, so that whoever has a complaint against another may bring it to an end lest he himself come to an end. Do not despise these words, my brethren.
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Be on your guard against these tendencies, then, my dearly beloved. Consider what is written: Go not after thy lusts. If this most salutary precept ought to be observed at all times, how much more fully should it be carried out in these days when the relaxation of our desires in unusual pleasures is so discountenanced that even he who has not restrained his usual pleasures is rightly censured.
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Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)
Divine grace is indeed the real meat and drink for all of us. If we deprive ourselves of this grace, then anything else that we will achieve and acquire in our life will have no meaning—it will only lead us further and further away from our salvation and Christ, from communion with God.
In memory of this occurrence, the Orthodox Church annually celebrates the holy Great Martyr Theodore the Recruit on the first Saturday of Great Lent.
