The Harvest

Spiritual Nourishment for the Church Year

Ignatius Brianchaninov, Helen Tsolaki

• Publisher: The Printshop of St Job of Pochaev
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9780884655152
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Denominations

" Attentive prayer … can be compared to the beneficial rain that irrigates a sown field, gives nourishment to the plants and ensures a rich harvest." God' s rich blessings on " the crown of the year" can be experienced in their fullness throughout the annual cycle of Church services. This penultimate volume of the Collected Works of St Ignatius (Brianchaninov) contains fifty-two sermons given on Sundays, during Great Lent and Paschatide, and other occasions, including the foundation of a new monastery, and a presentation on the teaching of the Orthodox Church on the Mother of God. An eclectic translator and compiler of the writings of the ancient desert fathers, St Ignatius not only freely weaves their words into his own preaching, but exhorts his readers to follow their example, so that they too may reap a rich spiritual harvest in this life and in the age to come. Particularly inspired by the writings of St Isaac the Syrian, St Macarius the Great, and St John of the Ladder, he also applies Holy Scripture and liturgical hymnography in his preaching to monastics and laypeople alike. A towering figure of 19th century monasticism, St Ignatius's influence has spread far beyond Imperial Russia, inspiring Orthodox Christians around the world in our own times.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Address to the Diocese
• 1 Hear Him: Sermon on Epiphany
• 2 On Repentance: First Sermon on the Sunday after Epiphany
• 3 On Repentance: Second Sermon on the Sunday after Epiphany
• 4 The Character of the Pharisee and of the Tax Collector: First Sermon on the Sunday of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector
• 5 On Prayer and Repentance: Second Sermon on the Sunday of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector
• 6 On Repentance: Sermon on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son
• 7 On the Second Coming of Christ: Sermon on Meatfare Sunday
• 8 The Precondition for Entering Great Lent: Sermon on Cheesefare Sunday
• 9 Preparation for the Mystery of Confession: Talk on the Monday of the First Week of Great Lent
• 10 On the Harm Caused by Hypocrisy: Sermon on the Wednesday of the First Week of Great Lent
• 11 Your Body Is the Temple of the Holy Spirit: Sermon on the Friday of the First Week of Great Lent
• 12 On Receiving the Body and Blood of Christ: Talk in the First Week of Great Lent
• 13 On Orthodoxy: Homily on the First Sunday of Great Lent
• 14 The Meaning of Fasting: Sermon on the Second Sunday of Great Lent
• 15 On Taking up One’s Cross: Sermon on the Third Sunday of Great Lent
• 16 The Effect of Fasting on Fallen Spirits: Sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent
• 17 The Spiritual Tools of Almsgiving, Fasting, and Prayer: Sermon on the Fifth Sunday of Great Lent
• 18 The Lord’s Entrance into Jerusalem: First Homily on Palm Sunday
• 19 Lift Up the Gates: Second Homily on Palm Sunday
• 20 On the Holy Mysteries of Christ: Homily at the Liturgy on Great Thursday
• 21 The Lord Crucified: Homily at Vespers on Great Friday
• 22 On Christianity: Sermon on the Sunday after Pascha
• 23 On the Mortification of the Human Spirit: Sermon on the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women, the Third Sunday after Pascha
• 24 On the Punishments of God: Sermon on the Sunday of the Paralytic, the Fourth Sunday after Pascha
• 25 On Worshiping God in Spirit and in Truth: Sermon on the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
• 26 On Conceit and Humble-mindedness: Sermon on the Sunday of the Man Born Blind
• 27 The Sign of Those Chosen by God: Sermon on the Sunday of All Saints, First Sunday after Pentecost
• 28 The Precondition for Adoption of Christ: Sermon on the Saturday of the Fourth Week after Pentecost
• 29 God Is the Helper of Man in His Tribulations: Sermon on the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
• 30 On Justice, Mercy, and Faith: Sermon on the Tuesday of the Eleventh Week after Pentecost
• 31 Beneficial Instruction from the Word of God: Sermon on Avoiding Faults and Offenses Due to a Lack of Judgment
• 32 On Salvation: Sermon on the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
• 33 On the Reason People Turn Away from God: Homily on the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
• 34 On the Rich Man and Lazarus: Homily on the Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost
• 35 An Explanation of the Lord’s Prayer: Homily on the Tuesday of the Twenty-third Week after Pentecost
• 36 On Love for God: Sermon on the Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost
• 37 On Love for One’s Neighbor: Second Sermon on the Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost
• 38 On Covetousness: Sermon on the Twenty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost
• 39 On the Kingdom of God: Sermon on the Monday of the Twenty-sixth Week
• 40 Jesus Teaches the People: Sermon on the Twenty-seventh Sunday after Pentecost
• 41 The Parable of the Great Supper: Sermon on the Twenty-eighth Sunday after Pentecost
• 42 On Giving Thanks and Glorifying God: Sermon on the Twenty-ninth Sunday after Pentecost
• 43 On Signs and Miracles: Homily on the Monday of the Twenty-ninth Week after Pentecost
• 44 On Salvation and Perfection: Sermon on the Thirtieth Sunday after Pentecost
• 45 The Mystical Significance of the Blind Man Receiving His Sight: Sermon on the Thirty-first Sunday after Pentecost
• 46 On Zacchaeus: Sermon on the Thirty-second Sunday after Pentecost
• 47 On Prayer: Sermon on the Saturday of the Thirty-second Week after Pentecost
• 48 On Bodily and Spiritual Struggles: Sermon on the Gospel from St Luke: Read on All the Feasts of the Mother of God
• 49 How Deceptive Earthly Life Is!: Homily at the Opening of a Women’s Monastery
• 50 On Salvation: Sermon to the People during a Visit in the Diocese
• 51 Homily on the Necessity of Rejecting Conceit in Order to Attain Fruitful Repentance
• 52 On the Mother of God: Exposition of the Teaching of the Orthodox Church
• Appendix A Short Biography of Bishop Ignatius (Brianchaninov)
• Notes
• Subject Index
• Scripture Index
• Further Reading