{"id":2545,"date":"2020-02-24T23:13:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T06:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2020-02-24T23:21:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T06:21:52","slug":"without-the-orthodox-faith-there-is-no-grace-no-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=2545","title":{"rendered":"Without the Orthodox Faith there is no grace, no salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"307\" src=\"http:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Saints.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Saints.png 680w, https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Saints-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Saints-509x230.png 509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Guard\nsacredly and strictly our Orthodox Faith, both in its canons and in its dogmas.\nDo not adapt your faith to your life, but your life to the faith. Draw all your\nhappiness from the True Orthodox Faith. Then you will be true sons of the\nOrthodox Church, and the Lord will pour out on you even here His boundless\nmercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Let us\nremember, my beloved children in Christ, that <em>without faith it is impossible\nto please Him<\/em> (Hebrews 11:6), that without the Orthodox Faith there is no\ngrace, that there is no true love for one another, there is only fatal egoism or only\nempty words about love, such as is the case among heretics and sectarians.\nTherefore, let us make an effort sacredly and strictly to guard the Orthodox\nFaith, and along with it always to have a grace-filled, true love for others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read\nthe Lives of Saints. In them you will find everything; they will teach you\neverything. Compare yourself not with people\naround you,\nbut with the saints \u2013 such a comparison reveals to us how great sinners we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One\nalways needs to repent of one\u2019s sins. It is especially important every evening,\nbefore sleep, to repent to God for the sins that we have committed over the\ncourse of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Self-accusation\nis the beginning of salvation, while self-justification is perdition for man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>St Seraphim (Sobolev)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guard sacredly and strictly our Orthodox Faith, both in its canons and in its dogmas. Do not adapt your faith to your life, but your life to the faith. Draw all your happiness from the True Orthodox Faith. Then you will be true sons of the Orthodox Church, and the Lord will pour out on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2549,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions\/2549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}