The Love of Heaven Roars with the Thunder of Anathema
“If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ,” says the Holy Apostle Paul, “let him be anathema.” — 1 Cor. 16:22
“After this, what sin or vice will be free from anathema?
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Let us rather thank the Lord that the terrible fate awaiting sinners isn’t hidden from us, and that what will befall us beyond the grave, if we do not repent, is clearly shown to us. If the love of Heaven itself roars over us with the thunder of anathema, it is to arouse us from the mortal sleep of sin.
Let us be grateful for this care over us, and upon returning home, instead of talking idly about how the anathemas were proclaimed in church, let us examine whether something in our morals and our lives is subject to anathema.”
—St. Innocent of Kherson , from “A Homily for the Sunday of Orthodoxy”
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