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Don’t Look Here and There—Look at Your Heart

A Conversation with the Abbot of the Kiev-Caves Lavra Metropolitan Pavel

Sergei Enik, Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl

We must pray for our earthly Fatherland, which the Lord has given us. Once we received independence without bloodshed, and now we are losing our independence with great bloodshed… We must look in our hearts and think about it: what are we leaving to the next generation?

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Finding Meaning in Grief

Hieromonk Alexis (Trader)

Ultimately, physical illnesses or the death of a loved one are opportunities to reflect upon the brevity of earthly life and ponder the reality that we are sojourners in a foreign land with our real homeland being in heaven with Christ and His saints.

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Behind the Darkness

Fr. John Guy Winfrey

Go out into this world and try to see beyond its darkness. Try to look behind the present wickedness and sin which are so prevalent and set up before our eyes. Look carefully and you will see persons. They come in all shapes and sizes. They are all wounded, just as we are all wounded. They bear the potential of being transfigured into radiant images of the Light of Christ, just as we do. They each have the potential of being brought into the divine Body of Christ and changed into Saints.

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Kung Fu and the Way of the Ant

How often we grow up yet carry with us the dreams of our youth! In many ways and for many years, I unconsciously approached prayer in the same way.

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The Favorite Book of Neo-Pentecostals

Deacon Pavel Serzhantov

The book is small, only three chapters of the Old Testament. In the Neo-Pentecostals’ point of view, the book of Joel confirms their way of life.

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A Conversation with Elder Sophrony († July 11)

Archimandrite Ephraim of Vatopedi, Elder Sophrony (Sakharov)

The abbot of the Great and Holy Monastery of Vatopedi, Archimandrite Ephraim, spoke with Elder Sophrony of blessed memory at the Holy Monastery of St. John the Baptist in Essex, England on 20 September 1992.From this meeting, one is struck by Elder Sophrony’s spirituality and ascetic vision, and can appreciate the value of his contribution to the contemporary life of the Church.

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

The Twelve Apostles: Timid Men who Won the World

An excerpt from a homily by St. John Chrysostom (Hom. 4, 3.4: PG 61, 34-36).

St. John Chrysostom

It became clear through unlearned men that the cross was persuasive; in fact, it persuaded the whole world. Their discourse was not of unimportant matters but of God and true religion, of the Gospel way of life and future judgment, and yet it turned ordinary, uneducated men into philosophers. See how the foolishness of God is wiser than people, and his weakness stronger than people!

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

The Tears of the Apostle Paul

His Eminence Metropolitan Seraphim of Kastoria

On the Apostle Paul, "the lofty and great ... who was almost incorporeal and the prisoner of Christ's love," the governor of the Church and the corrector of the ecumene, the educator and father, the tent-maker and landless, as he was characterized by Saint John Chrysostom, will this poor and insignificant discourse deal with.

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Sermon on the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, Leaders of the Apostles

Homily Twenty-Eight

St. Gregory Palamas

If, as we have said, we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should we celebrate the memory of Peter and Paul, the supreme Leaders of the pre-eminent company of the Apostles? They are the fathers and guides of all Christians: Apostles, martyrs, holy ascetics, priests, hierarchs, pastors and teachers.

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

The Holy Glorious and All-Praised Leaders of the Apostles, Peter and Paul

Sermon of Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo

St. Augustine

The Apostle Paul, formerly Saul, was changed from a robbing wolf into a meek lamb. Formerly he was an enemy of the Church, then is manifest as an Apostle. Formerly he stalked it, then preached it.

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The Cross is my Life

Fr. Silouan Benedict

Our Lord was allotted the most infamous and painful death and treated as a worthless criminal. He was stripped naked, scourged and suspended by iron nails so to end His life in the midst of the insults and curses of those very men for whom He was to die—becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross (Phil 2:8). And all of this for what? To save us miserable and ungrateful sinners.

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“For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory forever. Amen.”

Fr. Alexis Trader

The Kingdom, the power, and the glory all bespeak God’s purifying, illumining, and deifying grace that can completely transform the children of Adam into children of light. They are His, indeed. But we also knows that He desires that they be ours. For from Christ’s own lips, we hear about the “kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world” (Matthew 25:34).

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The Power of the Sacraments in the Lives of Orthodox Christians

Presented by Fr. Nikon of Mount Athos at the Academy of Aikaterini, Greece, 2014

He also saw a person in the large throng of people who was possessed of a demon. This demon manifested itself as a bird. The bird is very dangerous for him for he is not aware of it. He said the bird looked very smooth like velvet. And the astounding thing about this demon possessed person was that he was the same Zen teacher that Fr. Nikon had met in Thessaloniki. The thing that is of great interest to us here is that before the sacrament of baptism Angelo could not see these things clearly but immediately after his baptism he saw them without a problem. This is the marvelous meaning and power of the Sacrament of Baptism in the Orthodox Church.

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My Mind Wanders: Can I Stop It?

Fr. Ted Bobosh

The battle against wandering minds, against the logismoi, is not a new one, and we can look to the desert fathers for advice in such a struggle.

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The Demons and the Swine

Fr. Thomas Hopko

One of the powerful stories, narratives, in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, the so-called synoptic gospels, is this event when Jesus encounters this man who is in the region of the Gadarenes or there are different names—Girgesenes or Gerasene region—this man who is totally and completely possessed by demons, filled with all powers of demons.

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Before the Pannikhida for Archbishop John of San Francisco

Sermon by Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky) of Eastern America and New York (+1985)

Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky)

When he was still a young man in Harbin, the equally-spiritual monastic, hieromonk Methodius (Yogl), noted perceptively that we all stand up for prayer, but Vladyka John does not need to stand, he is always in a prayerful mood…

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Dostoevsky and the Sins of the Nation

Fr. Stephen Freeman

For many, the idea that we are somehow responsible for the sins of others, or can repent on their behalf is counter-intuitive and deeply troubling. It is distinctly non individualistic. However, it is a cornerstone of Orthodox devotion. Dostoevsky presented a very popular version of this teaching in the words of the fictitious character, the Elder Zosima, in his The Brothers Karamozov.

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Sunspots in Scripture

Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon

The account of Ananias and Sapphira is arguably the most frightening story in the New Testament.

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Apathy Epidemic

John Valadez

Sleeper, Christ is calling you. Arise from the apathy epidemic and open your eyes to a cause for life and give up your senseless world. Refuse the dreamland of this age and drift from the pools of the lukewarm.

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No Need to Fear the Antichrist

Recently a friend sent me a conversation from some of the Greek elders on Mount Athos regarding the end times.

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