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[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Fr. James Guirguis

In today’s gospel passage we recognize and celebrate the virtues of the Myrrh bearing women. They are known for their dedication and service and these are truly important attributes that everyone can learn from and imitate. But what is not thought about often is the exceeding strength and courage required of them.

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Unless I see, I will not Believe

Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis

Doubts are normal! Thomas was really a lot like us. We aren’t likely to see Jesus walk into our office today and show us His hands and His side. But we can see Christ in so many things—in nature, in our own gifts, in beautiful things that defy rational explanation, and in the lives of many who are faithful to Him.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Ship of Salvation

Professor A. I. Osipov on what the Church is, and what it means to be a true Christian

Professor Alexei Osipov

Professor A. I. Osipov on what the Church is, and what it means to be a true Christian

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Waiting Upon the Lord

Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry

Let us recognize the vibrant Orthodox Church in the portrait that Zephaniah gave us 600 years before Jesus’ birth! “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Cry aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem” (vs. 14) at the coming of the King of Israel. Fear evil no longer (vs. 15)!

[English Edition / Theology]

The Hidden Gospel: A Study on the Book of Genesis

Introduction

Jesse Dominick

The whole of the Gospel can be found in the book of Genesis in a hidden form. It is important because it shows us how God intended man to be, it shows us why we’re in the condition we’re in now, and therefore it helps us to understand why we need Christ—what is it that we need to be saved from. The prophecies of Christ begin immediately after the Fall. If you study Genesis and read the Fathers’ commentaries you can basically learn the entirety of the Orthodox faith.

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

May the Lord Rule in Your Heart: Selected Sayings of St. Nektary of Optina

St. Nektary of Optina

Take this advice for your whole life: if the superiors or those older than you suggest something, then no matter how difficult or how lofty it might seem, do not refuse. God will help you for your obedience.

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His Bodily Wounds and Ours: Homily for Thomas Sunday in the Orthodox Church

Fr. Philip LeMasters

The good news is that Christ does not ask us to conquer sin and death by our own power, for He has already done that. But He does ask us truly to have faith, which requires a faithful life, even as we constantly ask for His mercy and strength to participate as fully as possible in the joy of His resurrection.

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

Occam’s Razor and the Resurrection

Fr. James Guirguis

We have just celebrated Pascha or Easter as it is otherwise known and the celebration that we partake of for 40 days is the celebration of Life over death, of Good over evil, of Light over darkness, of Holiness over sin. In the midst of our celebration it is easy to lose focus and to forget that this is not just a story that has been passed down to us for 2000 years.

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Mind the Gap

Fr. Lawrence Farley

For me the perplexing thing about the gap is not that it exists—secularists will be secular, after all, and most people are too busy living life to spend much time questioning the underlying presuppositions of their culture. For me the perplexing thing is how Christians could come to deny the existence of the demonic

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

Homily: Do Not Be Faithless, but Believing!

Rev. Gregory Jensen

Sometimes faith is a struggle because we are so unaccustomed to joy. In this life, peace is often foreign to our experience and forgiveness rare. Sometimes, like Thomas, I doubt because of the brightness of the Divine Light.

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The Good Unbelief of Thomas

Monk Moses of the Holy Mountain

Faith, we would say, comes with difficulty, hazard, risk and daring. This is why He blessed those who believe without tangible evidence. The strongest evidence is the confirmation of our hearts. The hard-to-believe Thomas is our brother, he is weak, but definitely sympathetic.

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Sermon for Feast of St. George at the Romanian Orthodox Mission to the Holy Land

His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem

The Holy and Great Martyr Saint George, a son of this Holy Land, has given us his blessing to be here together on this feast in the light that shines from the empty Tomb, so that we may proclaim in our generation the Good News of Christ’s Resurrection and His philanthropy to all humankind. Christ’s righteousness is the light of truth, and our spiritual mission is to be a beacon of that truth.

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

Have You Seen the Lord? Does it Make You Glad to See Him?

Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis

How, then, do we see Christ? We see Him through the eyes of faith, which are sharpened through the eyes of vulnerability. Make yourself in some way vulnerable to the Lord, whether it is in the spiritual intimacy of prayer, or the difficult task of forgiveness, the humility needed in the sacrament of confession, or in the selfless act of service to others. Make yourself vulnerable to the Lord and you will “see” Him and have the joy that the Disciples had when they saw the Lord.

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Dispersing the dark cloud of the Passions

A discourse on the Mystery of Chrismation

Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

By virtue of Chrismation the Holy Spirit guides us into all truth. He recalls for us the commandments, making our conscience very sensitive and vigilant. The grace of the Holy Spirit gives to man strength to contend with sin and not capitulate to the mercy of the conqueror, and not to yield to the evil that dominates in the world. The Mystery of Chrismation makes man a winged creature, born in Baptism not to crawl, but to fly.

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Homily on the Day of Pascha

St. Philaret of Moscow

Following the Angels, we have entered into the feast of the Resurrection of Christ; we have gathered together along with the Patriarchs, the Prophets, and the Righteous, led into the Church for the feast like into Paradise and Heaven. Think then, what kind of celebration this must be! It must closely resemble the angelic; it must be worthy of communion with the Heavenly Church of Patriarchs, Prophets, and Saints; it must be worthy of Paradise and Heaven.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Pascha: The Blast of a Trumpet

Fr. Lawrence Farley

Why a trumpet? Why not (for example) a signal fire, or the waving of a standard? Why a trumpet blast, and what did the blast of a trumpet mean to Israel?

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If confession’s a court, it hands down only innocent verdicts!

Archimandrite Theodosios Martzoukhos

We imagine Christ and the Church to be ideas and spiritual issues, whereas our actual life is a daily routine that goes at our own pace and, if you like, kidnaps us and confuses us. Christ didn’t come into the world to make a spiritual life for people!

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I am the Resurrection and the Life

Metropolitan Ephrem (Kyriakos)

Christian spirituality is a paschal spirituality. Christ's passion is not a site of grief, but a site of joy. The Lord Jesus told His disciples before His passion, "Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy" (John 16:20).

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed

Priest Damian Dantinne

"Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed" our resurrected Lord Jesus Christ said to Saint Thomas and his fellow Apostles. These words should be of great comfort to us as to all generations who have come afterwards and are still to come.

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

Syrians and the Joy of the Resurrection

Fr. Georges Massouh

No one will snatch this joy away from us. Whether we are in this world or the next, our mark is joy. And by their sign you will know them. Christ is risen, my joy.

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