What Then Shall We Do?

The fifth Sunday of Lent, the veneration of St Mary of Egypt, is the subject of this season finale episode.Saint Mary did not leave us with insightful writings. Saint Mary left us with an exemplary life we can strive to emulate. Yet, we have almost no details about how she lived her day to day life & we couldn't emulate it anyway because we don't live alone in a desert. But she clearly spent her life cultivating a deep sense of her sinfulness, a deep repentance of her sins, a profound awareness of God's love & a profound joy at God's forgiveness & these are what we can strive, with God's help, to emulate.This is the answer to the question asked of the apostles in the second chapter of Acts after the first preaching of the evangelion of Jesus, The Christ: "what then shall we do?"Reference materials for this episode: Previous episodes - Saint Mary of Egypt: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1443073/episodes/8220564 - Sacred Space part 1: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1443073/episodes/16010821Complete account of St Mary’s life - https://stmaryofegypt.org/files/library/life.htmScripture citations for this episode:Readings for The Fifth Sunday of Lent - Hebrews 9:11-14 - Mark 10:32-45Luke 9:46-48 - parallel to Mark 10 aboveLuke 9:51-56 - shall we call down lightning & thunder?1 Corinthians 9:24-27 - Run the race to complete it & winThe Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion. Our hosts are Father Symeon Kees of Iowa City & James John Marks of Chicago.Paradosis Pavilion - https://youtube.com/@paradosispavilion9555https://www.instagram.com/christiansaintspodcasthttps://x.com/podcast_saintshttps://www.facebook.com/christiansaintspodcasthttps://www.threads.net/@christiansaintspodcasthttps://bsky.app/profile/xtiansaintspodcast.bsky.socialIconographic images used by kind permission of Nicholas Papas, who controls distribution rights of these imagesPrints of all of Nick’s work can be found at Saint Demetrius Press - http://www.saintdemetriuspress.comAll music in these episodes is a production of Generative Soundshttps://generativesoundsjjm.bandcamp.comDistribution rights of this episode & all music contained in it are controlled by Generative SoundsCopyright 2021 - 2026