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[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Real Life

Rev. George Dimopoulos

Be watchful and strengthen your lives. This exhortation, be watchful, asks that you open your eyes and try to understand life.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Parable of the Sower

Archpriest Victor Potapov

The parable of the sower, the first of Christ's parables in time, is a prophecy of how mankind accepts the Gospel is good tidings in different ways, and how this Gospel acts differently on them, depending on the condition of their souls.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Redemption and Salvation in the Book of Tobit

Fr. John Peck

What does this have to do with redemption and salvation from a Christian perspective? Why did the early Christian teachers and Fathers hold this book in such high esteem? They certainly considered it important enough to be in the Bible. Why is it even in the Bible at all?

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Halloween: How Do We Tell the Children?

All the children are doing it, and we know how hard it is to get our children to swim upstream and ignore the heathenish customs of their peers. Rather than make light of this problem, we decided to ask some Orthodox priests in the United States who have to deal with this every year what they say to their own children and other families about Halloween.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Christian and Peace. Address by Rev. Franklin Graham, President of Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, at International Conference on Religion and Peace (Moscow, 29 October, 2015)

Franklin Graham

I cannot help but note also, Your Eminence, that my father returned here in 1988 to join in celebrating the 1000th anniversary of the baptism of Prince Vladimir of Rus, and the founding of the Russian Orthodox Church. I was deeply moved, Your Eminence, when I learned that this year – 2015 – marks the 1000th anniversary of the death of Prince Vladimir. On behalf of my father and my fellow believers in the United States, I extend to you our most respectful congratulations on this historic occasion.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

A Poor Man Named Lazarus

Fr. Lawrence Farley

Our Lord’s parable of Lazarus and the rich man is unique among the parables, for in this parable alone one of the characters has a name.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

About Fairy Tales

Fr. Stephen Freeman

People, including children, make sense of the world through the stories they know. Children without stories are forced to stumble through the world without a clue.This is not only true of children, but of people in general.

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

The Feast of St. Demetrius the New – Protector of Bucharest, at the Romanian Patriarchate

In his sermon the Romanian Patriarch spoke of the veneration of saints. His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel underlined the fact that “when we venerate relics of saints, we do not honor bones, as mistakenly believe unprepared, uninformed and ill-intentioned people, but we meet the saint whose relics are placed in front of us.”

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Feast of St. Demetrius the Great Martyr in Bucharest

"One’s profession or dignity does not represent an obstacle for Christian life and faith. Do you think that in our days there are no new martyrs revealed? In Middle-Eastern countries the pitiless sword of Islam cuts down authentic Christians and counts them in the same army of Great Martyr St. Demetrius. Because our saint was and is an imitator of Christ, it would be best for us to establish ourselves in the likeness of Christ; let us imitate the saints, according to the word of St Paul the Apostle: Therefore I urge you, imitate me, (as I imitate Christ)."

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Money talk: It’s a part of the job

Fr. Barnabas Powell

A pastor who only speaks about money is a problem, but so’s one who never does. Such avoidance implies that money is “unspiritual,” and cedes the topic to the devil. And he for one never shies from sharing his views.

[English Edition / Sretensky Monastery]

“Go in peace to this cross-bearing, sacrificial labor!” His Holiness Patriarch Kirill’s homily at the consecration of His Eminence Tikhon (Shevkunov)

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill

On October 24, 2015, on the feast day of the Synaxis of Optina Elders, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of the Kazan icon of the Mother of God in the St. Ambrose Stavropegal Convent, Shamordino. At the Liturgy, His Holiness presided over the consecration of Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) as bishop of Egorevsk, Vicariate of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Address of His Eminence Metropolitan Pavlos of Drama at the Way of the Saints Procession in Bucharest

Metropolitan Pavlos of Drama

And their voices have been heard. The sun called John Chrysostom hasn’t set ever since. His mouth and his golden words have never been sealed. The writings and sayings of the golden-mouthed saint are decisive. Through his writings and sayings he is a contemporary of every generation, and especially of our generation.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Three Holy Hierarchs – Teachers, Intercessors and Protectors of Orthodoxy

Patriarch Daniel of Romania

We pray to our Savior Jesus Christ, the Three Holy Hierarchs and to St. Demetrius the New, protector of Bucharest, to illumine you, to strengthen you and to grant you healing and health of soul and body, so that you can follow the example of the saints and to become worthy of the grace and light, the peace and joy of the Most Holy Trinity. Amen.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Sermon on the Widow of Nain (21st Sunday after Pentecost 2015)

The Gospel reading for this Sunday, the story of the widow of Nain, is very brief; yet like every passage of Holy Scripture, it contains many layers of meaning, each of them true, none of them superseding nor contradicting one another, but all blending into a chorus of divine truth that even contains within itself everything that we need to know about the Kingdom of God and our life on this sinful earth.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Widow of Nain

Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

Today's Gospel concerns the resurrection of the son of the widow of Nain. We recall that this miracle occurred just after the healing of the servant of the centurion, a healing which had taken place at a distance.We can notice how this miracle of resurrection, like all the Lord's miracles, happened for two reasons.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Making Choices. Should Your Spiritual Father Tell You What to Do?

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Sometimes we come to a crossroads in life where we have to make a decision as to which way to go.

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Life in the Holy Spirit

Met. Georges Khodr

God's unity with Christ is a unity of essence because Christ is uncreated in His divine being. He is in the Church, giving Himself to us. We become one with Him by His grace. That is, He makes us one with Him. You are not His partner in essence because your essence is created, but you are with Him by the grace that He sends down upon you.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Some Basic Principles of Orthodox Missionary Work in the 21st Century

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

The above principles may seem obvious common sense to many, but they are often overlooked, precisely because they are so obvious.

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Sayings of St. Ambrose of Optina

St. Ambrose of Optina

"Strive in all things to live according to the Divine commandments, and remember that the Lord is present and sees the disposition of your heart. While fulfilling an obedience, consider that it has been given by the Lord through a person, and that your salvation depends on your zeal in fulfilling it."

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Healing of Impulsivity in the Light of our Understanding of Personality

Hieromonk Alexis (Trader)

The therapeutic regimen offered by the holy fathers tacks in a slightly different direction, based on a very different understanding of the human being’s inner world or personality.

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