Православие.Ru Поместные Церкви Православный Календарь English Српска

Архив RSS Карта сайта

English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Авторы сайта

А Б В Г

Д Е Ж З

И Й К Л

М Н О П

Р С Т У

Ф Х Ц Ч

Ш Щ Э Ю

Последние поступления

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

The Discourse on the Holy Theophany

St. Hippolytus

But give me now your best attention, I pray you, for I wish to go back to the fountain of life, and to view the fountain that gushes with healing. The Father of immortality sent the immortal Son and Word into the world, who came to man in order to wash him with water and the Spirit; and He, begetting us again to incorruption of soul and body, breathed into us the breath (spirit) of life, and endued us with an incorruptible panoply. If, therefore, man has become immortal, he will also be God. And if he is made God by water and the Holy Spirit after the regeneration of the layer he is found to be also joint-heir with Christ after the resurrection from the dead.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

How the Fathers Walk with Angels on Theophany

Priest Sergei Begiyan

The most important trait of holy water is its incorruptibility, without having any change to its chemical composition. Incorruption belongs to the Kingdom of Heaven, and when we sprinkle something with holy water, we want to impart to it God’s grace, present in the water. And the first place we all want to see sanctified is our home.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Early Christian Worship and the Bones of Martyrs

Vincent Gabriel

In the veneration of both icons and relics, we experience the union these great men and women shared with Christ on earth decades or even centuries ago—a unity that transcends time and continues through eternity. Christ unites himself to us, both body and soul, and the bones of martyrs shine with the uncreated grace of God while their souls are at rest, working miracles even after their death.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

St. Seraphim of Sarov. A Sermon by St. John Maximovitch

St. John (Maximovich) of Shanghai and San Francisco

It was the same during his earthly life. Cities were being destroyed, kingdoms were being established, Napoleon advanced upon Russia with twelve nations and then left in disgrace, Moscow burned and was again raised from the ashes, Decembrists organized revolts and were then sentenced; but was as if these events did not touch St. Seraphim.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

“In Christ a man receives more than he lost in Adam”

A Conversation with Archbishop Damian of Sinai and Pharan

Deacon Vladimir Vasilik

But then let us think about what kind of purity a man must acquire in order to enter into this Kingdom. Let us not put off our salvation till later, nor hope that we will be purified before death or even at the time of death, or that we will land in “purgatory,” as the Catholics mistakenly think. For those who say, “Later,” it will never come. Therefore let us be concerned about our salvation now, while it is still possible to say, “Now.”

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

This Miracle Has Torn History in Two

Panegyric on the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Archimandrite Iachint Unciuleac

A new miracle has occurred! Now, in a brief span of time the cave has been replaced with thousands upon thousands of churches large and magnificent, adorning all corners of the world. The poor manger has turned into a multitude of divine altars. The Infant in swaddling bands awaits us now in the form of the Holy Mysteries.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Another Way

Fr. Seraphim Holland

Here is what I want to share with you from my heart. When the wise men had finished worshipping the Lord Jesus, Being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way (Mt. 2:12). This is very significant. Every time I read this, I am filled with great joy. There is another way, brothers and sisters.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Good People!

Dimitry Sokolov-Mitrich

We are used to looking at good people as our co-strugglers in the battle against bad people. This really hinders us from perceiving them adequately—as something valuable in and of themselves, as the greatest treasure of this world, as a work of craftsmanship into which enormous labor was poured.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Acceptable Year of the Lord

Fr. Georges Massouh

Christianity, then, is not like some people mistakenly think, a mere "spiritual" message that does not concern the affairs of people and the world. It is a call to make our present world into a better world, a world governed by divine values, first among them love, mercy, peace and justice.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

Charlie Brown and the Lonely Walk of Faith

Fr. Lawrence Farley

I have watched it faithfully every year since I can remember, and have the whole wonderful thing more or less memorized by heart.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

Celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7? Orthodox Christian Church does

While most Christians celebrate the birth of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ on the 25th of December, few know why so many Orthodox Christians do not.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

Sermon by metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky) of Kiev and Galich on the feast day of St. Nicholas the wonderworker

Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky)

Tell me, Orthodox Christians: If there were ever such a man who for a grave crime were sentenced by royal decree to eternal prison, and his kind master would ask of the king that he would be forgiven, and instead this master accepted his punishment upon himself, while the criminal remained free; and that this good master sent him this good news, in a letter saying “I freed you, and took upon myself your just punishment from the king”? Tell me, brothers, what would the emancipated criminal do with this treasured letter?

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

How to Avoid the Priesthood

Priest Sergei Begian

The man being consecrated to the priesthood is ascending, as it were, to Golgotha, but it even fills him with joy, just as it filled certain martyrs who were going to their own executions. It is as if the Lord carries the one being ordained in His hands, grace abounds, as if giving the newly-consecrated a foretaste of what he will later have to labor with sweat and blood for.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

“We have many fast days, and that is our Church’s strength”

Archpriest Alexander Saltykov, Nicholai Bulchuk

Why is fasting necessary? For several reasons. The most obvious (and I think the most understandable) reason consists in the fact that a person simply needs to have inner discipline. And in this sense, fasting is a disciplinary measure. We cannot simply live according to the principle of “I want”: I want this, I want that.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Messiah and Gift-Giving

Michael Coleman

At the dawn of the Messianic Age, we see the greatest gift that anyone has ever given, or could give—a gift of which all other previous gifts mentioned in the Old Covenant were mere shadows: God gave himself, not only in descending to become man in the incarnation, but also on the Cross:

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

A sermon on the Gospel according to Luke 12:16-21—the parable of the rich man

The rich man is chastised because the only thing he really wants in life is control—that’s it, control. He wants to be able to organize everything exactly as he wants, with no uncertainty, no ambiguity, no external things impacting his life, impacting his desires…

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Divine Liturgy and the Great Thanksgiving

Vincent Gabriel

Standing at the south corner of the altar, the deacon quietly utters to the presiding priest: “It is time for the Lord to act.” This phrase sets the tone for everything in our worship. We are not performing some sort of magical act that assuages the deity in our favor, but are rather joining in with the liturgy of eternity; the liturgy of his own actions in our favor; the liturgy which has, and is, and ever shall be taking place; the liturgy which is the great thanksgiving—the great Eucharist—of God.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

A Day in the World of St. John Chrysostom

Priest Ioan Valentin Istrati

We live in a changing world. All around are life, death, the past, and old age, passing on from one stage to the next. People become what their parents were, children grow into youths and then into adults, the elderly depart to the earth, and all are pitilessly stalked by the specter of death.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Go, and Do Thou Likewise: On the Good Samaritan

Archimandrite John (Krestiankin)

The Lord gave us a commandment: do not unto others as you would not have them do unto you. This commandment is also always with us, always before us, like a vigilant and impartial watchman who exposes and unmasks both our knowledge and our cunning.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

Angels

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

The word ‘angel’ comes from the Greek ‘angelos’, which means ‘a messenger’. As far as we are concerned, in the way in which we are related to the angels, they enter into our life as messengers of God. This does not mean that there is not in the angels an essence of their own, their own essential being, and that they are nothing but messengers.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87

В других разделах