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Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose)

As celebrated by Orthodox Christians, this feast occurs exactly midway between Easter and Pentecost and serves as a link between them. It continues the celebration of our Lord’s Resurrection, emphasizing His Divine nature and glory; for it was proper to no one but to God to conquer death.

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Sermon on the Sunday of the Paralytic

Archimdrite Kirill (Pavlov)

We sometimes wish that our petitions and prayers would be fulfilled immediately, not considering that God knows better than we what is more profitable for us and when to offer us consolation.

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What is the Nous and how is it distinct from the Soul?

Fr. John Whiteford

The Church has always considered the soul as the part of the human being that needs healing because She has seen from Hebrew tradition, from Christ Himself, and from the Apostles that in the region of the physical heart there functions something that the Fathers called the nous.

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On Prayer of the Heart

Excerpts from Exploring the Inner Universe

Fr. Roman Braga

Attaining dispassion is not the result of personal effort, but it comes by the grace of God; so you must fall on your knees, see yourself as a sinner, and ask for God's help.

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The Hidden Soul and the Weight of Glory

Fr. Stephen Freeman

What do we mean when we speak of the personality? Do we mean a certain set of memories? A collection of experiences and preferences? Is it our set of skills and techniques? How many of these would we have to lose for the personality and personhood to disappear?

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The Work That Saves

Fr. Stephen Freeman

Do we cooperate in our salvation? Do our efforts make a difference?These questions lie at the heart of a centuries-old religious debate in Christianity.

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St. Thomas Sunday

Archbishop Dmitri (Royster)

The following is a brief reflection on the Gospel reading for the Sunday after Pascha, John 20:19-31

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About seeking the living among the dead

St. Nikolai Velimirovich

O my brethren, let us also cease to look for the living among the dead. If there are some of us who are still seeking Christ among the dead, let them desist from this soul-destroying effort.

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The Lamentations Service for Holy Saturday Matins

This service includes what are called the Lamentations of the Theotokos. Our Lord Jesus Christ has been taken down from the cross, and His Most Pure Mother laments at His lifeless Body, but theologizes concerning the mystery of His death and our redemption.

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I am the Vine, Ye are the Branches. From a sermon on Holy and Great Thursday

Hieromonk Pavel (Scherbachev)

Today, brothers and sisters, on Great and Holy Thursday we remember the Last Supper, when our Lord Jesus Christ established the Sacrament of Holy Communion, and served the first Divine Eucharist, giving his disciples and apostles His Most Pure Body and Blood in the image of bread and wine.

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Each One of Us is Potentially a Judas

A sermon given by Fr. Seraphim (Rose) during Great Lent, 1982

Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose)

In this passage of Scripture, we read how, as our Lord prepared for His Passion, a woman came and anointed Him with very precious ointment; and it is very touching how our Lord accepted such love from simple people. But at the same time Judas—one of the twelve who were with Him—looked at this act, and something in his heart changed.

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The Parable of the Ten Virgins

Archpriest Victor Potapov

The parable of the ten virgins shows that only a man's earthly life in God, in accordance with the testaments of Christ and therefore consonant with the Kingdom of Heaven, will justify him both at the particular judgment (after death) and at the general Dread Judgment. But all "formal" Christians, who live out of contact with God and care not about their salvation, prepare for themselves rejection.

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Our Conciliar Salvation

Fr. Stephen Freeman

I consider it both a strange mystery and a settled matter of the faith that God prefers not to do things alone. Repeatedly, He acts in a manner that involves the actions of others when, it would seem, He could have acted alone.

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Sermon on the Annunciation

St. Proklos, Patriarch of Constantinople

Our present gathering in honor of the Most Holy Virgin inspires me, brethren, to say of Her a word of praise, of benefit also for those come unto this churchly solemnity.

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The Divine Wisdom of Righteous Joseph

Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov)

We often say: What is spirituality, where is it, how can we touch it? Here it is. This is that very wisdom, that very light of Christ that enlightens all.

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The Barren Fig Tree

Metropolitan Tikhon of All America and Canada

But beyond the historical and the spiritual levels, Christ offers these parables as doorways by which we might enter into the sacred reality of Holy Week, that is, to enter into the Glory of the Kingdom by sharing in the Passion of Christ.

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Lazarus Is Risen! Truly He Is Risen!

It perhaps may sound quite odd to our Orthodox Christian ears if on the Saturday of Lazarus, we were to greet each other with the words: “Lazarus is risen! Truly he is risen!” Naturally, no liturgical prescription or precedent exists for this.

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Jesus’s tears

Priest Leonid Kudryachov

The verse is brief, but it should be read slowly. Just two words, but each one is precious.

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Lenten Reading: St. Macarius the Great. Homily 25

St. Macarius the Great

Homily 25 marks the final installation of the Fifty Homilies of St. Macarius the Great for this Great Lent of 2015. We wish all our readers a blessed Holy Week.

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Lenten Reading: St. Macarius the Great. Homily 24

St. Macarius the Great

The state of Christians is like merchandise, and like leaven. As merchants amass earthly gains, so Christians gather together their thoughts that were scattered about the world. As leaven turns the whole lump into leaven, so the leaven of sin permeates the whole race of Adam; but Christ puts a heavenly leaven of goodness in faithful souls.

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