We need to focus on the essentials! | Lent | Death of shallowness (Fr. Barnabas)

In this video, Fr. Barnabas talks about Lent as a time of focusing on the essentials: "There is a death involved in following Jesus Christ, it's the death of short-sightedness, it's the death of your slavery to your passions, it's to death to the false and foolish notion that I can just live with just my attentiveness at the end of my nose... It is the death of shallowness!"#orthodox #lent #essentials Fr. Barnabas Powell is the parish priest at Sts. Raphael, Nicholas, and Irene Greek Orthodox Church in Cumming, GA. Follow his homilies on YouTube at Faith Encouraged TV. This sermon was delivered on March 19th, 2023. Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le9vIoUMkFkRead the full English transcript of this video on our website: https://otelders.org/theology-and-spirituality/we-need-to-focus-on-the-essentials-lent-death-of-shallowness-fr-barnabasThis video has English and Romanian subtitles. Use the button to switch them on or off. Watch this quick-guide on how to turn on captions on your device: https://youtu.be/if7eELuaYtISubscribe for new videos every week: https://tinyurl.com/subscribe-otelders🔔 Don't forget to click the bell icon to get new video updates! 🔔Watch the NEWEST videos: https://www.youtube.com/otelders/videosConnect with otelders (Orthodox Teaching of the Elders):Website: https://otelders.org/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/otelders/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/otelders/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@otelders