What Christ Accomplished On The Cross

Hieromonk Damascene teaches: “With Christ’s death and His Resurrection, all the consequences of the Fall are overcome: both spiritual death (the loss of the Grace of God) and physical death. What we sing in the Paschal hymn we mean quite literally: “Christ is Risen from the dead, trampling down death by death.””

Hieromonk Damascene, Abbot of the St. Herman Monastery in Platina, CA, and spiritual son of Fr. Seraphim Rose, captures in this talk the essence of what Christ did for man on the cross. He examines Christ’s defeat of sin and death and helps us understand more clearly the mystery of redemption. He draws frequently upon the Holy Scriptures and the Holy Fathers, especially St. John Chrysostom, St. Gregory the Theologian, St. Symeon the New Theologian, and Vladimir Lossky.

This talk was given at the Annual Lenten Clergy Confession of the New Gracanica Metropolitanate and the Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Jackson, California, March 4/17, 2004.

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