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[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Saint Porphyrios on Obedience

Rev. Gregory Jensen

For Christians as well as those outside the Church, probably no topic is as misunderstood as obedience. And yet, obedience is foundational not only to our relationship with Christ but for the whole of the Church’s life. Obedience to Holy Tradition, to our bishop and our conscience all serve to keep us united to God and our brothers and sisters in Christ.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Last Judgment: Destruction and Redemption at the End of History

Hierodeacon Herman (Majkrzak)

The Lord came to save and to restore, to transfigure and illumine; but inevitably this involves death and judgment and destruction. He Himself submitted to death at the hands of false judges, so that death might become the path to incorruptible life. The resurrection, both of man and of the entire created cosmos, will only occur after death. The “new heaven and the new earth” will be consummated only after “the former things have passed away.” History had a beginning, and it will have an end. And that end is destruction, and that destruction will give way to boundless, unimaginable glory and beauty.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Good Defense Before the Dread Judgment Seat: Hospitality

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Whether we are eating or fasting, it is always the time to be generously charitable and hospitable to others. Without hospitality and charity, our fasting from food is vapid and void.

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How We Treat the Living Icons of Christ: Homily for the Sunday of the Last Judgment in the Orthodox Church

Fr. Philip LeMasters

As we prepare for our Lenten journey, we should remember that fasting is not simply a change in diet, but a tool that can help us fight passions that keep us from serving Christ in our neighbors. When done in secret and with humility, fasting weakens the self-centeredness that keeps us from sharing God’s love with others.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Sunday of the Last Judgment

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

Today, on our preparation journey towards Lent, we have come to the ultimate stage: we are confronted with judgment. If we pay attention to it, next week our spiritual destiny will be in our own hands, because next week is the Sunday of Forgiveness.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

A Sermon Before Confession on the Sunday of the Last Judgment

Archpriest Valerian Krechetov

They asked her, “What did you see? What was revealed to you?” She only answered, “Don’t judge anyone. We are going to be judged very severely. Don’t judge anyone.” Judge not that ye be not judged (Mt. 7:1)—this was written in the Gospels. We should try to fulfill this commandment.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

God Crowns Effort

Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis

You don’t have to have the perfect marriage, the perfect children, the perfect home or the perfect anything else. God expects an effort. And in prioritizing what to do, it doesn’t matter if your laundry sits in a pile on the couch for a few days if you have had to take care of sick children, or have had a difficult week at work. God doesn’t expect perfection—He DOES expect effort.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Monasteries

Abbot Tryphon

Centers for spiritual healing and intercessory prayer

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Treasure in Heaven

Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis

When you put more emphasis on something, it becomes more important to you. When something is important to you, you put more emphasis on it. So whether you lead with your heart and your treasure follows, or you lead with your treasure and your heart follows, make sure that your heart and your treasure are both directed, in some measure, towards the Lord.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Praying for our Children

Elissa Bjeletich

As a modern saint, so near to us in time, I thought we could spend some time with the great wisdom St. Porphyrios offers us in regard to raising up children, which is recorded in the beautiful book, "Wounded by Love: The Life and Wisdom of Elder Porphyrios."

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

What Goes Around Comes Around

Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis

If we are going to live by this commandment of the Lord to forgive one another, we are going to have to bring the word “forgive” into our conversations and the concept of forgiveness into all of our relationships.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Step by Step Koliva Preparation for Memorial Services

Presvytera Vassi Haros

With Great Lent quickly approaching the Church is preparing not only to guide the living to repentance, but also to offer up prayers on behalf of those who have departed, an essential mark of Orthodox piety and worship. Saturday February 21/March 5 marks the first Soul Saturday, followed by the second, third, and fourth Saturdays of the Great Fast.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Avoiding Repentance

Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry

During the Lenten season we implore God to help us stop rationalizing and gilding our sins, claiming we do God’s will when we do not. In God’s eyes, disobedience equals occult divination. Let us never believe that we may disobey God and escape all consequences!

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

His Eminence Nicolae: "We must build for our Children a Parental Home and a Spiritual Home, which is the Church"

"The responsibility to build a home for our children belongs both to the biological and to the spiritual parents. When the time comes they will remember this spiritual and parental home and return. If not, they will keep on wandering in the world."

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Homily on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Fr. Francis Rella

Of the four Sundays preceding Great Lent, none is more full of hope than that of the Sunday of the Prodigal Son. In the parable of the Prodigal Son, the two brothers are poised at the crossroads of their adulthood. It is the realization point for the younger and perhaps the older that there is something more out there besides hearth and home. It is the realization and dream of every young person when attaining maturity to be set free from parental bonds, no matter how loving.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Proof of Love

Abbot Tryphon

The Liturgy reminds us, only those with faith and love may draw near to receive the Holy Mysteries. Our participation in the Body and Blood of the Lord provides each of us with the opportunity to be Christ-bearers in the world in which we live, and others will know we belong to Christ, “by our love.”

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Metropolitan Tikhon, Archbishop Leo concelebrate Liturgy at New Valaam Monastery

Addresses of His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon and of His Eminence Archbishop Leo

Finally, let us return to Mount Tabor. A guarantee of the unity of Local Orthodox Churches is the Divine Liturgy, the one Eucharist. The Orthodox Church in America is in Eucharistic communion with the rest of the Orthodox Churches. Thus we also could be taken to Mount Tabor today to celebrate this heavenly sacrament. And even though it would be good to be there, we need to return to the world. It is our task to return to the world and bring light to darkness—that light which this world cannot give. Only this light may enlighten even the darkness of hell. This is our task: to serve, not to be served.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Walk away from the swine world

Fr. Jonathan Tobias

It’s no use to ask the Prodigal Son just how he ran away. He probably couldn’t tell you how he ended up in the swine world, a sullen existence that stretched as far as he could see.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Speech on the Occasion of the Enthronement of Metropolitan Silouan Ouner in the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of the British Isles and Ireland

Metropolitan Saba (Esber)

"Just as the Church started in Jerusalem and spread to the rest of the world, likewise this beloved Metropolis, which began in London with only a few refugee families, has been strengthened by God to grow in an ancient land, which has gifted Christianity with its own native-born saints throughout history."

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

Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Fr. Milan Katanic

We are all in need of returning to God. But the only way we can do that is through our humility – through our admitting our fault and with repentance to return.

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