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[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Building Community with God and Each Other

Matthew 22:1-14

Archbishop Benjamin (Peterson)

"I think it’s one of the primal human characteristics that we can only eat with those people we love. I can’t eat with people I don’t like. I just can’t—I don’t feel like eating. In a household where children are misbehaving at the dinner table what do we tell them to do? 'Go to your room.' We tell them 'We don’t want to eat with you, and when you act better you can come back and join us.' I imagine two cavemen sitting down and having a mammoth leg, and a third one appears. Now if he’s invited to eat with his friends he knows he’s welcome and there’s peace between them, but if they spurn him and push him away there’s already tension between them. Eating together is a basic human characteristic and it’s a way we show love to each other, it’s a way we build community, and it’s the way God builds community with us."

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Visited by the Holy Trinity: A Homily For St. Alexander of Svir

Fr. Timothy Hojnicki

And a fantastic thing took place, that one day while he was praying, the Lord Himself, Father, Son and Holy Spirit appeared to him. It’s a fantastic thing because, even the Synaxarion makes mention, this never happens! It’s one of the only times that we know that the Trinity appeared to somebody. They told him and they revealed themselves that we are Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and they instructed him to build a church in their honor and one of them, the Son, reached over and grabbed his arm and told him to take courage and be of good faith—everything would be taken care of.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Let Christ Defend Himself

Fr. Georges Massouh

"Christ will not be affected by a person who mocks Him, but rather He will pray for him. However, Christ will certainly regret the sight of a hungry child, a bereaved mother, or a man without shelter ... Christ is insulted in them. Let those who want to defend Christ love those who wander about the lands of God with empty bellies, blanketed by the sky and with stones for pillows ... Christ is not in need of politicians to recover His honor. They are in need of Christ who is present in the poor in order to regain their human dignity."

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Metropolitan Athanasios: “Contemporary Charismatic Elders”

Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol

Metropolitan Athanasios of Lemesos, Cyprus, speaks on our era's charismatic elders

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Impulsivity, Addiction, and the Passions

Hieromonk Alexis (Trader)

Hieromonk Alexis (Trader) from Mt. Athos discusses impulse and addiction in patristic terms, and shows patristic parallels in the twelve step program.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Chosen Few

The Gospel Lesson of Matthew 22:1-14

Fr. Ted Bobosh

All we who are baptized are called to the King’s table, but God alone knows whom He has chosen. Woe to those of us to whom the Most High, the King, shall say before all the angels and saints: ‘Friend, how can you come not having a wedding garment?’

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

You Don’t Mean a Thing

Fr. Stephen Freeman

What good is a compass that points to itself? It means nothing. It is a compass for people who are going nowhere.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Orthodoxy, at its Best, is Local

Fr. John Guy Winfrey

I am a firm believer that Orthodox Christianity, at its best, is local. The word local may be troubling to some, but let me assure you that I do not have in mind local in the sense of congregationalism.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Making Death into a Means to Spiritual Transformation

Hieromonk Alexis (Trader)

In a 1789 letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Yet, most of us spend our lives doing everything possible to avoid them both.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Let your conscience guide you

Fr. Barnabas Powell

Would you buy insurance from the KKK, or cleaning products from ISIS? Probably not — even if they offered the best rates, or gave your floors a miraculous shine.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

If It Makes You Happy

Fr. Stephen Freeman

When the gospel becomes an expression of personal desire and happiness, it has been hijacked by a foreign narrative. What do the pleasures of this world have to do with the Cross of Christ? Christ did not die for our self-fulfillment.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Homily on the Parable of the Vineyard

Fr. Peter Pier

"The Jews rose up in rebellion against their Roman overlords and God abandoned them because they had abandoned Him, and the city of Jerusalem fell. Many were killed, others were raped pillared and plundered and the Jews were scattered to the four corners of the earth, and the first covenant nation-state of Israel came to an end. But as the people who responded to the parable said, God has now created a new vineyard and let it out to new tenants. And if you want to know where the new vineyard is, just look around, because you’re in it. This is the new vineyard of the Lord."

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Communion & Division – The Structure of Knowledge: Introduction

Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon

The purpose of these remarks is to inquire what sort of guidance theology may give us with respect to choosing a philosophy.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Good Deed Done Out Of Devoted And Merciful Love Is The Treasure That We Take With Us To Heaven

“When Jesus Christ, our Saviour tells him: Come, follow Me it means ‘give up something temporary to gain something eternal: the God-Man. Give up something earthly to have treasure in heaven—but the greatest heavenly treasure is Christ Himself.’

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Today She Teaches Us How We Should Die: A Homily on the Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God

Fr. Christopher Rocknage

Those who live their life in Christ, those who follow the word of God and keep it like the Mother of God did, and does, have that to look forward to—a resurrection to eternal life, a resurrection not unto judgment but unto life. And if you notice in the icon of the Holy Dormition in the center of the church today, yes, her body is laid out to be taken to her tomb in Gethsemane, but Christ is there with her soul wrapped in swaddling clothes as an infant, and He’s carrying her.

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

A Transition to Life: The Dormition of the Mother of God

Elder Ephraim of Arizona

Every time we celebrate the Dormition of the Mother of God, it’s as if we’re having Easter – the Easter of the summer.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Right and Wrong

Father John Parker

The larger question, which seems to be the proverbial elephant in the living room, is “From where do our definitions of good and evil come?” Is the distinction between right and wrong, good and evil, from above? From outside ourselves? From God? If so, how could we presume to tinker with it?

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

ROYA Mission Trip to Romania

You can’t imagine how difficult it is to write this article, summarizing the last 3 weeks cohesively and giving you a fraction of the essence of our trip. Only superlatives come to mind when thinking of this group of young adults and of the experience as a whole.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Mutual Obedience & the Life of the Spirit

Rev. Gregory Jensen

Turning from the monastery to our everyday life, real obedience is concerned with hearing the voice of God in the voice of our family members, fellow parishioners, brother clergy and even in those of good will with whom we share only a common humanity.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Peacemaking In a Troubled World

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Peace is to rule in our hearts, even if we have to confront evildoers and those who disturb the peace. We should defend what is good and right without losing the peace that comes from Christ.

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