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[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Two ways of following Jesus this Advent season

Joel J. Miller

Some people make Christianity primarily an intellectual thing, others an experiential matter. The stories of Andrew and Philip show us that both are valid—never one to the exclusion of the other.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Come, Follow Me

Met. Georges Khodr

For us to enter into the kingdom means that we behold the good. The kingdom of God means love and truth. For us to enter into the kingdom means that we enter into the domain of truth, the domain of righteousness and that we are truly good.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

On Individualism

Metropolitan Ephrem (Kyriakos)

Let us always remember that our brothers are our life because they are the image of our God who gave us life and who continues to give us life. Let us share every good thing with others, who are the image of our Creator, so that the Lord may permit us to share in His heavenly kingdom because in all simplicity, if we love His children, then we have loved Him in them.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Gospel of the Good Samaritan

Fr. Seraphim Holland

Today, we have two teachings, set parallel to one another, like two plots in a story. One has an outward and moral aspect, concerning how we should act as Christians, being compassionate, and who is our neighbor.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Why We Fast

Fr. Stephen Freeman

The following article offers some thoughts on the purpose of fasting.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

St. Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 9:37-43. Healing of the Demon-Possessed Boy

St. Cyril of Alexandria

And the multitudes, the blessed Evangelist says, wondered at the majesty of God. When Christ then works miracles, it is God Who is glorified, and God only and solely.

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

St. Paisius (Velichkovsky) on Fasting

St. Paisius (Velichkovsky)

Today, the day of his commemoration, is also the first day of the Nativity fast. We would like to begin this time of blessed preparation with a short instruction from St. Paisius on fasting in the monastic, Orthodox tradition, from his work, “Field Flowers”.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Stopping of sins

Priest Leonid Kudryachov

The train wheels are squealing, like the drowning Gadarene pigs, and the horned and tailed engine driver is uttering dirty curses. All are poking their fingers at the disturber of the “peace”—condemning, ridiculing and threatening him. But he has already left.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Living in the Real World

Fr. Stephen Freeman

We cannot live in the abstract and suddenly attend to the real. We cannot “care” and then turn to love. “To live” is an active verb. The passions of mass experience are something else.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Thank You, O Lord!

Archpriest Alexander Schmemann

By way of introduction, Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann celebrated the Divine Liturgy for the last time on Thanksgiving Day.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Dangerous Vision of Paradise

Fr. Stephen Freeman

Modern people do not live – they dream. And their dreams sometimes become nightmares.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

On Terrorism

Metropolitan Ephrem (Kyriakos)

A person brings forth good or evil after practicing devotion and sacrifice. God is the wellspring of Good and the Devil is the source of evil. Both of them seek sacrifice and devotion. The holy fathers, physicians of the soul, work hard to treat and cure man's illnesses. They guide people in order to transform man's negative powers into positive, constructive powers.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Good Samaritans and Syrians

Fr. Ted Bobosh

I want to revisit the Gospel lesson of Luke 10:25-37, the Good Samaritan, one more time to reflect on the current refugee crisis and what a Christian response might look like.

[English Edition / Theology]

Apocalyptic Spirituality

Fr. Lawrence Farley

We know how it will really unfold—with the last trumpet, and the voice of the archangel, and the resurrection of the dead, and the final triumph of Jesus, and the new Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God like a bride adorned for her husband. We know what others don’t. We know the word “maranatha”.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Crowded Church

Fr. Ted Bobosh

The Gospel lesson of Luke 8:41-56 has been a favorite of mine for the simple reason that I see it as presenting a “type” of the Church.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Subhumanity – The Philosophy of the Absurd

Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose)

We must again be Christians. It is futile, in fact it is precisely absurd, to speak of reforming society, of changing the path of history, of emerging into an age beyond absurdity, if we have not Christ in our hearts; and if we do have Christ in our hearts, nothing else matters.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Unavoidable Suffering and Salvation – The Way of Shame

Fr. Stephen Freeman

Shame is the unbearable emotion, according to psychologists. It is also the first recorded human emotion in Scripture.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Thoughts on a Refugee Crisis But No Solution

Fr. Ted Bobosh

The mass migration has put many European countries to the test, and have challenged the moral values of Christians throughout the world. How should Christians respond to these aliens and strangers who come knocking at our borders? How do we treat migrants who themselves are related to people who have inflicted oppression and suffering on Christians?

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Let Us Not be Firewood!

Fr. Georges Massouh

"Christian unity is either based on faithfulness to Jesus Christ or you should call it something else."

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Bob, His Doctor, and Your Moral Life

Fr. Stephen Freeman

Of course this is fiction – but it is fiction based on how many Christians think of their spiritual lives. Christ is the physician of our souls. The Church, the Fathers say, is a hospital for sinners. So why do we think like Bob and his doctor? Why do we think that who we are and how we are doing can be described by how well we adhere to rules?

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