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Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol

Thus, we are commemorating our Lord’s incarnation in order to experience on the one hand His great love for us and on the other to feel great gratitude for all the wonderful things He has granted us. In addition, this benefits us in a practical way, because we are offered the opportunity to pass judgement on our life.

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Homily On The Birth Of Christ

by St. Philaret of Moscow (Given by Archimandrite Philaret in the St. Alexander Nevsky Lavra)

St. Philaret of Moscow

Whoever desires to be a dwelling place of the Son of God, must have his homeland only in God, and with all his ties to his earthly homeland, however natural and proper they may be, he must not compare it to the heavenly.

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Charity at Christmas

Fr. Ted Bobosh

You won’t need security or guards to protect your goods – you put them in God’s hands and God will protect them.

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Reading Beneath the Words

Fr. Stephen Freeman

The relationship between Old and New Testaments is much less straightforward than most people realize.

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Let Us Begin!

Rev. Gregory Jensen

Without a doubt, the hardest part of the journey through inner silence to love is beginning. This doesn’t mean that there aren’t challenges and struggles along the way—there are—but that first step is still the hardest.

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Christ And Zeal

Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon

When John says the disciples “remembered”—emnesthesan—the Scripture and what Jesus said, surely more is intended than a simple human recollection. This anamnesis, in which the Word of God takes possession of the memory, comes from the activity of the Holy Spirit, of whom Jesus promised,“But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring into your memory (hypomnesei) all things I said to you” (14:26).

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Preparing to Appear with Christ in Glory: Homily for the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers in the Orthodox Church

Fr. Philip LeMasters

"Christmas will be here soon, and how we respond to the Lord as His birth will make clear the state of our souls. Will we be ready to welcome Christ into our lives at His birth? Will we be ready to accept the invitation to the feast? I certainly hope so, for the good news of Christmas is that in our Lord the fulfillment of all God’s promises is extended to people like us, those poor, blind, and lame with sin, who suffer from the pain, weakness, and corruption of life in the world as we know it, and who are nowhere near perfect."

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The Table is Laden: A Homily on the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers

Jesse Dominick

"The table is laden. All passions, all wealth, all pleasure, all of our excuses, find their true fulfillment in the Incarnate Christ. Let us lay aside all these excuses and accept the festal invitation, for truly, the table is laden, and all are invited."

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On Fasting Again

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

To those on the new style calendar who are celebrating the Nativity of Christ, we wish all a joyous feast. Please keep this delightful article on fasting in mind for Wednesdays and Fridays, and the other three extended fast periods. But for those who are still observing the Nativity fast, may these instructions encourage you during this final stretch.

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Are We Ready for Christmas?

Metropolitan Augoustinos Kantiotes

"It is my hope that I speak to the faithful who know but one kind of drunkenness, that holy drunkenness described by the Psalmist who exhorts us to taste and see that the Lord is good (Psalm 33:8). I hope that you have you ears open for blessed is he that speaketh in the ears of them that will hear (Sirach 25:9)."

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Looking like Christmas

Fr. Stephen Freeman

One of the most striking features of the Gospels is the frequent response of the Disciples after the resurrection of Christ: doubt.

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Who has a need for Christmas?

Father John Parker

"We all have so much to give—but we forget that it is not actually ours. Everything we have is given to us by God to be used by us to show the love of God to those who truly need it."

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Privacy, Silence and Prayer

Rev. Gregory Jensen

Fr. Gregory Jensen continues on prayer and thoughts.

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The Light and the Peace of Bethlehem

Patriarch Daniel of Romania

"The theological and spiritual treasure of Christmas carols comes from the teaching of the Orthodox Church, inspired by the Gospel and the writings of the Holy Fathers, which profoundly meditate on the mystery of God’s love of mankind, shown to us by the Incarnation and the birth of His Son, Who became a Man out of His love of man and for the sake of man’s salvation."

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I’ve Got a Thinking Problem

Rev. Gregory Jensen

We often hear that love isn’t a feeling but a decision. True enough but it begs the question. What is it we decide when we decide to love?

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The Nativity: An Icon of the Christian Family

Fr. Vasile Tudora

This infinite love should make us all want to change something within our hearts, to make our heart a place fit for Christ. To give him there a proper place to be born, to grow and to save each of us from the inside out. Then, and only then, the Christians will truly become a cloud of witnesses for the Incarnation. Then, and only then, the world will be able to understand the meaning of the miracle from the manger of Bethlehem.

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The Healing of the Ten Lepers

29th Sunday after Pentecost

Fr. Seraphim Holland

What can we learn from this short, little story, just a few lines? We can certainly see that one should give thanks to God, but more fundamentally, the inner meaning is that this leper had eyes to see, and ears to hear, and saw the God-man, and acted upon what he learned and what he knew.

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What to Give to the One who Made Everything?

Father John Parker

Royalty, divinity, and death. These were the gifts offered as signs of the essence of Jesus Christ. As we celebrate the feast, adoring him, let us also enflesh the call of this ancient hymn and prayer:

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Modern Illusions

Fr. Stephen Freeman

There are two thoughts I want to offer in this article. The first addresses the illusion of the better world and making a difference, while the second addresses what it is that we can do.

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Homily on Sabbath Rest and Service

Bishop Daniel

"The Sabbath is the day of completion, when creation had been finished and pronounced good, but it is also the day of potential . The Sabbath is therefore a day of blessing, but also a day of promise. It’s a day for remembering that we didn’t make this world, Someone Else did. This world was already here before we entered the picture, and it was already blessed even without our presence. It is a blessed and good thing."

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