ByzyDad: Lenten Prayer and Reflection

This is the Lenten Prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian, followed by a sermon by our Father among the saints St. John Chrysostom on fasting.

St. Maximos the Confessor on Blasphemy

'When the intellect begins to advance in love for God, the demon of blasphemy starts to tempt it, suggesting thoughts such as no man but only the devil [...] could invent. He does this out of envy, so that the man of God, in his despair at thinking such thoughts, no longer dares to soar up to God in his accustomed prayer. But the demon does not further his own ends by this means. On the contrary, he makes us more steadfast. For through his attacks and our retaliation we grow more experienced and genuine in our love for God.' (Second Century on Love, 14.)

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Lenten Prayer and Reflection

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