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

Wake Up and Come Home: Homily on the Prodigal Son, the Elder Brother, and the Forgiving Father

Fr. Philip LeMasters

Both the prodigal and the elder brother needed to be reconciled with their father. The same is true of each and every one of us this Lent. We will gain the spiritual strength to do so through prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and other spiritual disciplines. No matter whether we identify more with the older or the younger son, our Lord’s calling to us is essentially the same: Come home and join in the great celebration of the Heavenly Kingdom.

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How do we treat the gifts of God? The Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

Now, we turn away, carrying with us the gifts of God; and we live in a country that is also alien; we live in a world that is man-made, but not God-made, or rather made by God and distorted by man. What kind of hunger comes to us?

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Fasting and Orthodoxy: Longevity in Life

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Sometimes we Orthodox need a little extra push to get into the Lenten Spirit.

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The Only Thing That Can Save Us

Sermon for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son 2016

So during the Lenten season ahead—and throughout all our remaining life in this present world—when we see our sinfulness, our brokenness, when we begin to know by bitter experience the tragedy of how drastically we have lost our way, let us not despair. Let us not wonder at it. Let us not ask: “where is the Lord?” He is walking this path of exile beside us. He has been this way before, even down to the lowest depths of Hades. He did not send us here to perish, but to walk with Him the only path that exists to His Father’s House.

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How to Transform Anger

Killdozer Part 3

Archpriest Pavel Gumerov

Well, and now the most important thing. It is not enough to simply learn to bottle up anger and hold it back. This is important, but not enough.

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Order of Prayer and Worship for Orthodox Faithful

Fr. John Townsend

Somehow we have been infected with the idea that there is a minimal amount of work, of faith, of commitment, of striving, of love, etc., etc., that is necessary for us to be considered, for lack of a better phrase, "Christians in good standing."

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"I Never Left!" Not true.

Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis

If God our Father is ready and happy to restore us, we should be happy to restore one another. After all, no one has sinned against me MORE than I have sinned against God. So, if I expect God to forgive ALL of my sins, then I should be willing to forgive the sins of others. And I should rejoice, rather than resent, when someone “comes back” and “makes it right.”

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Worship

Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry

The prayers and hymns of the liturgy speak of that which “the Lord swore to our fathers to give us” (vs. 3). His promises include salvation and a kingdom that exceeds any expanse of land on earth. God the Father gives His Only-begotten Son to all nations, “that whoever believe in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (Jn 3:16). Through the Cross, the Resurrection, the ascension into heaven, and second and glorious advent of Christ, the Life-giving Trinity raises us up again, brings us back to heaven, “endowed ... with [His] Kingdom which is to come.”

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Forgiving Others

Abbot Tryphon

We must put aside all resentment.

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A Test of the Reasonableness of Our Faith

A homily given on the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee

Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Egorievsk

Today we have also run across two kinds of righteousness that people bring to church with respect to one and the same recent matter. Ten days ago an event occurred that has stunned and troubled millions of people: His Holiness Patriarch Kirill met with the Pope of Rome. However, this event also caused a large number of Orthodox people serious confusion—let’s call a spade a spade.

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One Happy Father

Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis

And this image, of the kind and forgiving father is the image we should all have of our Lord. He waits for us to make our way back. He waits to embrace us and welcome us home. Our burden is to make the journey. We don’t have to wonder what His reaction will be. It will be one of great joy.

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He Came to Himself—the Critical Moment

Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis

Repentance is our way of “correcting course” in our spiritual lives, to get back on target. And this is done in the same way the Prodigal Son made his correction. First you must “come to yourself” and realize you are off the mark. And then you must make the journey back.

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Your Body Belongs to the Lord

Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis

The gap between what is and what should be is called sin. For sin is not only “missing the mark,” and doing the wrong thing, sin is failure to do the right thing. Indifference, for example, is a sin. The way for closing that gap is called repentance. And this is the theme on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son—closing that gap through repentance. The theme of Lent is the cleaning of our bodies, our temples, so that they shine with the radiance of the most beautiful Cathedral.

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A Comparison: Francis of Assisi and St. Seraphim of Sarov

Mitrophan Lodyzhensky

In contrast to Francis, St Seraphim did not seek to “feel himself transformed into Jesus” through his prayers and labors. He prayed simply and deeply, repenting of his sins.

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Seeking Vision of God

A Homily on the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee

Joseph Magnus Frangipani

Too often, we mostly identify with the airport on top of our head. This airport welcomes compulsive thoughts taking off, landing, circling around us. We're constantly debating with ourselves, assessing everything. Whether good or bad, the fact our will is independent says we're not in harmony with God. Most of us don't hear God speaking in our midst because we're tuned in to this airport.

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The World Loves its Own

St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

Concerning the truth and harmony between the teachings of the Fathers of the Eastern Church and Holy Scripture, and about the false direction of the ascetics of the Western Church and their writings.

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Parched Lands

If we seek God through prayer and worship, we have His promise that we will come forth with “a voice of gladness” (vs. 20), even in the face of the impossible. Like the prodigal son, let us realize “how many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!” (Lk 15:17). Christ is always available to our heart and soul if we will return home. “Proclaim it to the end of the earth, and say, ‘The Lord delivered His servant Jacob’” (Is 48:20), even in the desert!

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When Death Visits Us

Abbot Tryphon

We will participate in the ongoing Heavenly Banquet

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VIDEOS: The 9th Annual Saint Herman’s West Youth Conference

This is an official, annual youth conference of the Western American Diocese; it is sponsored for the purposes of educating our youth in the tenants of the Orthodox Faith and engendering acquaintances and friendships for the young people that for them reaches beyond the usual pool of acquaintances limited within respective parishes. Every year the conference has been efficaciously hosted in a different parish of the Diocese. This variation in venue provides the youth with exposure to other parishes in the area.

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Self-control in Difficult Straits and the Transformational Power of Prayer

Hieromonk Alexis (Trader)

When we are tired, we become less aware of ourselves and what we are doing. When we are anxious, we are too worried about the future to be concerned with controlling ourselves in the present. When we are depressed, we are often so wrapped up in our past failures that present goals, such as self-control, seem pointless.

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