The fifth Sunday of Lent, the veneration of St Mary of Egypt, is the subject of this season finale episode.

Saint Mary did not leave us with insightful writings. Saint Mary left us with an exemplary life we can strive to emulate. Yet, we have almost no details about how she lived her day to day life & we couldn't emulate it anyway because we don't live alone in a desert. But she clearly spent her life cultivating a deep sense of her sinfulness, a deep repentance of her sins, a profound awareness of God's love & a profound joy at God's forgiveness & these are what we can strive, with God's help, to emulate.

This is the answer to the question asked of the apostles in the second chapter of Acts after the first preaching of the evangelion of Jesus, The Christ: "what then shall we do?"

Reference materials for this episode:
Previous episodes
- Saint Mary of Egypt: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1443073/episodes/8220564
- Sacred Space part 1: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1443073/episodes/16010821

Complete account of St Mary’s life
- https://stmaryofegypt.org/files/library/life.htm



Scripture citations for this episode:
Readings for The Fifth Sunday of Lent
- Hebrews 9:11-14
- Mark 10:32-45

Luke 9:46-48 - parallel to Mark 10 above
Luke 9:51-56 - shall we call down lightning & thunder?
1 Corinthians 9:24-27 - Run the race to complete it & win

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The Fourth Sunday of Lent, The Veneration of St John Cassian, is the subject of this week's episode.

Jim reflects on the core beliefs which come even before details about The Trinity, The Incarnation, The Virgin Birth, The Death, Resurrection & Ascension of this incarnate God, the singularity of the church which His apostles established, or the succession of bishops who have preserved the divine revelation which was given to those apostles by the incarnate God.

There is someone we have to acknowledge we are, a reality we have to admit is the one in which we live, before we can even begin the lifelong journey of becoming a Christian.

Reference materials for this episode:
Episodes on St John
- https://www.buzzsprout.com/1443073/episodes/10364782
- https://www.buzzsprout.com/1443073/episodes/14611115


Scripture citations for this episode:
Matthew 5:17-20 - Torah will not pass away
Matthew 11:25-30 - easy burden, light yoke
John 10:7-18 - the good shepherd brings abundant life
Romans 7 - our confusion about our own behavior
Philippians 3:6 - blameless under Torah

The Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion with oversight from Fr Symeon Kees

Paradosis Pavilion - https://youtube.com/@paradosispavilion9555

https://www.instagram.com/christiansaintspodcast
https://twitter.com/podcast_saints
https://www.facebook.com/christiansaintspodcast
https://www.threads.net/@christiansaintspodcast

Iconographic images used by kind permission of Nicholas Papas, who controls distribution rights of these images

Prints of all of Nick’s work can be found at Saint Demetrius Press - http://www.saintdemetriuspress.com

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The third Sunday of Lent, The Veneration of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross, is the subject of this week's episode.

Jim reflects on the paradox of a device of torture & execution becoming the emblem of our military victory, our triumph, over sin & death.

Reference materials for this episode:
GOA Digital Chanters’ Stand - https://digitalchantstand.goarch.org/goa/dcs/dcs.html
Antiochian Liturgical resources - https://www.antiochian.org/liturgicday


Scripture citations for this episode:
Hebrews 4:14-5:6
Mark 8:34-9:1
John 3:14-17

The Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion with oversight from Fr Symeon Kees

Paradosis Pavilion - https://youtube.com/@paradosispavilion9555

https://www.instagram.com/christiansaintspodcast
https://twitter.com/podcast_saints
https://www.facebook.com/christiansaintspodcast
https://www.threads.net/@christiansaintspodcast

Iconographic images used by kind permission of Nicholas Papas, who controls distribution rights of these images

Prints of all of Nick’s work can be found at Saint Demetrius Press - http://www.saintdemetriuspress.com

All music in these episodes is a production of Generative Sounds
https://generativesoundsjjm.bandcamp.com
Distribution rights of this episode & all music contained in it are controlled by Generative Sounds
Copyright 2021 - 2023