Alive from the Dead: Homilies on Great Lent

by Zacharias Zacharou

As a saving light, Great Lent renews our orientation in our life. It initiates us into the passage from this world of corruption to the blessed Kingdom revealed by Christ. By obedience to the immaculate Church and in union with all her members, we undertake the striving that she recommends to her children. We fix our gaze on the end of the way, on the Cross and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus, from which flows forth the grace of salvation for all mankind. Humbly and voluntarily, through fasting, self-reproach and prayer, we offer to God the poor sacrifice of our deadening to sin. We gain a little taste of death, so as to attract the touch of the Holy of Holies, the breath of the all-holy Spirit, which will strengthen our nature to ‘celebrate an eternal Passover’, making us partakers of unspeakable joy and of a ‘better resurrection’ in the Kingdom of our Lord, Whose first appearing we have loved.

541 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2021

About the author

Father Zacharias is a disciple of Saint Sophrony the Athonite - the Father founder of the Community of Saint John the Baptist, Essex, UK. He 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.