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[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk on the Vocation and Mission of the Family in the Modern World

Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)

"Today, when the world ever more resembles that foolish man ‘which built his house on the sand’ (Matt. 7: 26) it is the Church’s duty to remind the society of its firm foundation of the family as a union between a man and woman created with the purpose of giving birth to and bringing up children. Only this type of family, as ordained by the Lord when he created the world, can forestall or at least halt temporarily modern-day society’s further descent into the abyss of moral relativism."

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

"Christ Our Savior Alleviates the Sorrow and Sadness of the Mourning"

Commentary on the Raising of the Widow's Son (Luke 7:11-16)

Patriarch Daniel of Romania

“Therefore, we learn from the attitude of Jesus Christ that we ought to be near to all mourning people who cry for their lost ones,” the Patriarch of Romania said underlining that “we show, through our presence near to the grieving that the merciful love of Christ our Savior works through us.”

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Excuse Me, You Are Not Rational

Fr. Stephen Freeman

Among the most noble words ever applied to human life, its meaning has been changed and placed in service of the greatest reduction our humanity has ever faced. It is time to take back our rationality.

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Blessed Is the God of Our Fathers

Vincent Gabriel

We are not servants of an absentee Father or archaeologists on a mission to discover some forgotten deity obscured through the lens of history. Instead, we are inheritors of an eternal kingdom, one that is meant to be joined and experienced as a people of God—not as mere individuals.

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On Anger

Met. Georges Khodr

David's "Be angry and do not sin" means to me that if someone provokes you to the point of anger, don't remain angry. You have nothing against the one who provoked you. Do not sink under the provocation. They want to provoke you so that you will sin. In this case, the Bible says "Be angry and do not sin" in the sense that reacting to harm done to you is reasonable, but reacting against the one who caused it is a sin.

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The Joy of a Life in Christ

Fr. Sergei Sveshnikov

Joy may be another one of those words that we use but rarely understand. What is joy?

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What a Miser You Are, O Man!

Fr. Georges Massouh

Christians are called to be like their Teacher, not to make their teacher in their own image. They must be good soil, soil clear of stones and thorns. This requires struggle to purify one's self from the cares of this suffocating world. No one will come to clear another person's soil. Everyone is responsible for cultivating his own soil, for reforming himself. If he does not smash the stones within himself and if he does not pluck out the thorns within himself, he will not bear fruit and he will not be of any good to anyone.

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The Rejection of the Highway of the Cross and the Resurrection Leads to the Byways

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

Under different names these three errors, Paganism, Saduceeism and Phariseeism, which like all errors separate us from Christ, are still with us today.

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Impulsivity and Asceticism

Hieromonk Alexis (Trader)

For the fathers, the goal is not to acquire an iron will for “white-knuckling” one’s way through any temptation. Rather, the aim is to have a supple will conformable to the will of God.

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‘Prelest’ and Conversion

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

‘Prelest’ simply means a state of mind in which we imagine that we are something that we are not, in other words, we are deluded. There are two states that greatly contribute to the development of self-delusion.

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Homily on the Feast of the Protection of the Mother of God

Fr. Myron Oryhon

"Let us be vigilant to see with purity, to interpret with purity of heart and to act with love. Then we shall be able to see freely the divine light shining on the world and in the world. In this manner we can better love, serve, and be part of the world which God given us."

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

Let Us All Turn to the Mother of God! On the Feast of the Protection.

St. Alexis Toth

But anyplace wherever we would be, the Lord's Mother is with us! She hears our prayers to Her. She is also here in Minneapolis and She hears our prayers. She sees when you put candles before her icon requesting for yourself, your homeland and your friends Her assistance and protection.

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The Gospel in the Church

Archbishop Nikon (Rklitsky)

The quiet wind of heavenly life blows within Christ’s Church. Through her is established a connection to the World on High, and mystical contact with eternity. In her is defeated death, which becomes a rest from labors and a portal to "the best and most useful." Nevertheless, the majority of people, blinded by the sorry trumpery of life, does not notice the mystical spiritual life in the Church and cannot draw from her that water of life, about which the Lord said that those who drink of it shall never thirst; that is, they will receive complete spiritual fulfillment.

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Refresher for a Russian Orthodox Pastor

Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky)

Having accepted the grace of ordination, bear in mind of what a gift and of what mercy the Lord has found you worthy – and what responsibility you now bear.

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Love For All

Met. Georges Khodr

"Christ came to save people but He wants each one of us to follow up on the mission of salvation, to be a savior to those around us. Christ is not only active from heaven: all of us are His hands and His eyes and He has given us the Gospel so that within us and at our hands it will become a glorious reality. In this way, if we love people, then they feel that God loves them. We love so that people may draw near, not only to us but to God. We do not love in order to be loved ourselves. We love so that God may be loved."

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The True Meaning of the Rainbow

Father John Parker

"The Christian knows this salvation through Jesus Christ in Holy Baptism. We do not wait for the Lord to destroy us in our sins. He doesn’t desire the death of anyone—but that we would turn and live! We immerse one another in the water to drown the old man voluntarily. We arise out of the baptismal waters—waters which grant earthly death, but heavenly life—to build an altar to God called “my life”, which is given as a daily offering of thanks for salvation in the Ark of the Church."

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Orthodox Living in the Modern World: Steps to Spiritual Transformation

From a talk by Schema-Archimandrite Sergius (Bowyer)

Archimandrite Sergius (Bowyer)

In this talk Fr. Sergius speaks on several important themes, including the benefits of pilgrimage for helping us to encounter God, the power of the saints, moving away from an inner monologue towards a dialogue with God beginning with a consistent prayer rule, and having an attitude of blessing and thanksgiving.

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Chemo in the Rear View Mirror

Fr. Ted Bobosh

One of the most blessed features of our God is that God, unlike some of our family members, friends and neighbors, does not keep His anger forever. God is love, and God does not constantly chastise us or punish us. God forgives, God is merciful, God uses every means for our salvation.

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Fr. Dumitru Staniloae: The Cross as a Means of Sanctification and Transformation of the World

Fr. Dumitru Staniloae

Through the Cross, Christ sanctified His body—the link with the world. He rejected the temptations sent to Him by the world, that is to taste the pleasures, to satisfy His needs unrestrained or to avoid pain and death. If we, in the same way, ward off the temptations of sin and patiently suffer the pain of death, sanctity can spread from His body to all bodies and throughout the world.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Paradise – Spiritual and Empirical

Fr. Ted Bobosh

The Fathers of the Church were biblical literalists in the sense that they took every single word of Scripture seriously. The words of Scripture had a plain meaning, but they also both hid and revealed a spiritual sense.

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