Homilies on the Christian Life · Lecture 029
Blessed Are They That Mourn
A lecture by Dimitrios Panagopoulos · Δείτε στα Ελληνικά
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Summary
Dimitrios Panagopoulos expounds the second Beatitude, Blessed are those who mourn, through Matthew 5-7 and 2 Corinthians 7:10. The mourning meant by Christ is not worldly grief over persons or possessions but spiritual sorrow over one’s own sins, possible only after poverty of spirit. A patristic distinction separates blessed mourning from the sorrow that produces death, and true mourning appears outwardly in sobriety, few words, and inward restraint, while inwardly producing the joy-in-grief called charmolypi. Saint John of the Ladder, John Chrysostom, and Basil the Great are cited in connection with bodily restraint, freedom from anger, and humility as voluntary hunger for dishonor, a state that must be guarded carefully.
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