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[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

On the Fear of God

Repentance is the ship, and fear is its rudder, while love is its divine harbor

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The New Covenant

Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis

The Old Covenant called the people to moral living. This was done through obedience to commandments. The New Covenant calls us to eternal life. We honor this covenant through partaking of Christ in the Eucharist.

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

On Knowing God as Whole Persons: Homily for the Second Sunday of Lent in the Orthodox Church

Fr. Philip LeMasters

We need the practices of Lent because, in contrast with the glory to which He calls us, we all remain too much like the paralyzed man before his healing. Our weakness before our habitual sins and passions often seems more real to us than do the gracious divine energies that alone bring healing. Perhaps that is because we have far more experience of our own brokenness than of deep personal union with God.

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

In Step With Saints Patrick and Gregory of Tours

Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose)

A homily given by Fr Seraphim Rose on St Patrick’s feast day in 1977. An avid venerator of the Western Saints pre-schism, Fr. Seraphim reveals his down to earth approach to the spiritual life and offers a breath of fresh are for so many of us to today who are struggling toward the Heavenly Realm.

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

Can we actually experience God?

Fr. James Guirguis

This Second Sunday of Great Lent teaches us so much. We learn that the work of the body is important work. We learn that we are saved together as an integral whole, body, mind and soul. We learn that when we harness our hearts, minds and souls to agree on working together towards knowledge of our Creator, we are then able to truly share in the benefits of the title “Child of God.”

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Defending the Synodikon

Fr. Lawrence Farley

The point of the Synodikonis to draw very thick lines in the doctrinal sand and say that if anybody in the Church crosses those lines and strays into heresy, they must either recant or get out, and it is precisely this approach to truth that is necessary and saving.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Why Do We Use Communion Spoons?

Fr. John Whiteford

In the Orthodox Church, Holy Communion is administered to communicants using a special spoon. Some have asked, doesn’t the 101st canon of the Council of Trullo forbid the use of Communion spoons? And why are the laity not allowed to receive Communion in the hand and from the chalice, as they did at the time of the Ecumenical Councils? Fr. John Whiteford answers these questions about the use of Communion spoons in our Orthodox Liturgy.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

God’s Light or Dark Apostasy

Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry

Let us consider the gift that we ourselves have received in Christ our God. We know the One whom Isaiah foresaw, the true Light of the world. Like Simeon, “we have seen that true light . . . we have found the true faith . . . for He hath saved us!”

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

The Sunday of St Gregory Palamas

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

Why do we fast? Why do we make sacrifices? Why do we stand at long services? Why do we pray? To those of us who are beginning to doubt and waver after only two weeks of the Fast, the Church brings us an answer today.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

‘Hail, passage through the gates of Paradise…’

Sotirios Sarvanis

From all of this, we may understand that it is no accident that the Salutations have been placed within Great Lent. What we will experience shortly is the most tremendous experience, and our soul must be pure if we are to live through the Holy Passion and the splendid Resurrection of Our Lord. This is why we ask Our Lady to support us at this time with her maternal affection and love, to pray for us to Our Father and for us to complete both this struggle which we are undertaking this Lent, peacefully and sinlessly, and also every other struggle for our salvation, so that we may enjoy the Kingdom of God.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Fasting, Ritualism and Repentance

Fr. Ted Bobosh

One aspect of Jewish religious life that our Lord Jesus criticized was hypocrisy, which can mean that people diligently adhere to keeping Torah in strict and minute detail, according to a particular interpretation of the Law, but their hearts are not united to the Lord.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

When You Need Comfort, Go Read a Psalm

Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis

Many of the Psalms are beautiful prayers. And they are used extensively in the hymns and prayers of our services, not only the Psalm Readings. In fact, the only book of the Bible that finds its way into ALL of our services is the book of Psalms.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Discoursing on the Passions

Prayer of the Heart in an Age of Technology and Distraction, Part 1

Fr. Maximos (Constas)

It’s a human impulse to want the best and greatest when we see it, but we forget that there are other things we need to do before we’re ready to achieve that level. We think we’re ready for great achievements before we’ve even attended to little things which somehow seem beneath us. We can’t stoop to them because we’ve been called by God—we have to be seen doing great big things. But this of course is to forget the words of the Lord Who says in the Gospel that he who is faithful in a little is faithful in much.

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

Homily: The Tradition of Witness, the Witness of Desire

Rev. Gregory Jensen

But what we profess is not a philosophy, even if (in the hands of some) it has become an ideology. What we profess is not mere history. What we profess is human history transformed and transfigured to become Holy Tradition, the Voice of the Holy Spirit leading the Church from generation to generation.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

All You Need to Remember are These Two Things

Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis

Christianity is not a contest to memorize laws. Rather it is supposed to be a life centered around loving God and loving others. For we don’t worship rules. We worship the Lord. And we do that by loving Him and one another.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

“Let us Purify Our Senses”: A Sermon for the Sunday of Orthodoxy

Hierodeacon Herman (Majkrzak)

Lent is a time for us to become much more conscientious about what impressions we allow to be made on our souls. What do we watch? What do we listen to? Do these things befit our dignity as human beings? Are we cleansing and adorning the image of God within us, or are we obscuring and damaging it?

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts

Among the church services held during Lent, the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, performed on Wednesdays and Fridays, holds an important place.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Strict/Too Strict

Igumen Gregory (Zaiens)

So we can err by missing the point of our prayers and church services, which is to enter within. As we have seen above in St. Theophan, he who, “has abandoned sin and is zealous for virtue, but has not yet entered within himself, works for the Lord only outwardly”; however, “he who has entered within carries the Lord in himself”.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Don't Cause Offense Over What Does not Harm You

Deacon Charles Joiner

Learning to love one another requires that we learn to be very careful about what we object to in what others ask of or say to us. If we are careful we can make this world one that is more peaceful with less stress. Remember how Jesus did not insist on His right not to be taxed, but chose instead to pay the tax so He would not create an issue. Respond always with kindness and love with Christ ever in your mind.

[English Edition / Theology]

The True Science of God

Fr. Stephen Freeman

To recognize that the world is wonderful and larger than you know, is to begin to understand your place within it. You do not control it, nor can you ever. It is too frequently the case that people speak of God as though they knew very well what (who) they were talking about.

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