Homily on the Sunday of the Last Judgment - St. John Maximovitch

On the second Sunday before Great Lent the Church commemorates the Last Judgment when all will be judged according to their love and faith. The great Wonderworker of the latter times, St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco, offers a message ever timely and sobering, with the sole purpose of rousing our sleeping souls to watchfulness, to stand worthily before the dread judgment seat of Christ at the end of time.
“Under Antichrist, there will be an immense falling away from the faith. Many bishops will change in faith and in justification will point to the brilliant situation of the Church. The search for compromise will be the characteristic disposition of men. Straight-forwardness of confession will disappear. Men will cleverly justify their fall, and gracious evil will support such a general disposition. There will be the habit of apostasy from truth and the sweetness of compromise and sin in men.”
“‘The end of the world’ signifies not the annihilation of the world, but its transformation. Everything will be transformed suddenly, in the twinkling of an eye.”
“When ‘the books are opened,’ it will become clear that the roots of all vices lie in the human soul. Here is a drunkard or a lecher: when the body has died, some may think that sin is dead too. No! There was an inclination to sin in the soul, and that sin was sweet to the soul, and if the soul has not repented and has not freed itself of the sin, it will come to the Last Judgment with the same desire for sin. It will never satisfy that desire and in that soul there will be the suffering of hatred. It will accuse everyone and everything in its tortured condition; it will hate everyone and everything. ‘There will be gnashing of teeth’ of powerless malice and the unquenchable fire of hatred.”
Text: www.johnsanido...
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[@ivygarcia9525]

May our good Lord help us quit coveting the world and the corruptible things in it, and may we set our eyes on things above, eternal, truly satisfying and beautiful. Amen. 🙏☦️

[@Italianamericaninthesouth]

It’s happening already with the churches being lenient on dress codes and embracing homosexuality .

[@acekoala457]

I was Baptised on the Sunday of the Last and Fearful Judgement 2 years ago.

[@almedhamorton4369]

Many years.

[@qwikss4469]

Lord have mercy, forgive me a prideful and wretched sinner

[@ailurophile4341]

Lord Jesus Christ, son of God have mercy on me, a sinner.

[@FireMan1240]

Thank you for sharing

[@mariusbobaru5003]

Sfinte Ierarhe Ioan, roagă-te lui Dumnezeu pentru noi!

[@MaximusWolfe]

Thank you!!!

[@autisticheadscarf]

Love St. John 🤍 thank you 🙏🏻

[@ambeseat]

Thank you so much.
May God bless you.

[@clydedoris5002]

So he will be easy to spot because he will want to be directly worshipped

[@PhoebeK]

Not initially, the antichrist will at first seem to be a good man. You might find the videos on the Antichrist on the Mull Monastery channel as Fr Seraphim talks about the subtle deception which will bring in the Antichrist and allow even the elect to be deceived.

[@adrianc1264]

He will not be easy to spot. He will be commemorated through corrupted church hierarchy, that process is 100 years underway already, if people haven't questioned their church they won't even notice it when it happens

[@susanpower-q5q]

Given one week before Great Lent
video time 4/10 Lawful Pious Authority begun by Saint Constantine whose birthday is today 27 February
ended externally in 1918 with World War ONE no Emperor left
Empire had split into three Catholic/Orthodox/Protestant by those who desire lawless authority 4/22
Thank you Brother Nathaniel Kapner for recommending this Saint