Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this video, Fr. Barnabas talks about Lent as a time of focusing on the essentials: "There is a death involved in following Jesus Christ, it's the death of short-sightedness, it's the death of your slavery to your passions, it's to death to the false and foolish notion that I can just live with just my attentiveness at the end of my nose... It is the death of shallowness!"
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Fr. Barnabas Powell is the parish priest at Sts. Raphael, Nicholas, and Irene Greek Orthodox Church in Cumming, GA. Follow his homilies on YouTube at Faith Encouraged TV.
This sermon was delivered on March 19th, 2023. Watch the full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=Le9vIoUMkFk

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