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[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The First Year of Marriage

Grammar of Family Life, Part 3

Archpriest Pavel Gumerov

What helps to overcome difficulties in the first year of marriage? What habits should become the norm? Is it worth it to fear conflicts? How should we build relationships with our parents? And why should we study psychology? Archpriest Paul Gumerov speaks on all of this in this installment of our conversation.

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3 reasons it’s good to contemplate your sins

Joel J. Miller

But we’re not meant to look at our failings without also looking to the cross. I heard a presentation by Fr. Tom Hopko on the Lord’s Prayer in which he mentioned three reasons why it’s good for us to remember our sins. The first goes right to this point: We remember our sins to more fully appreciate the grace of God.

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Man’s Spiritual Nature. Orthodox Spirituality, Part 2

Fr. Alexey Young

"St. Theophan the Recluse teaches that a highly active imagination can bring psychological abnormalities, but the spiritually alert have almost no imagination because they are experiencing the reality of God. Thus the saints appear emotionless in icons. They can look at us directly because they can look at sin without judging."

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Spiced with Divine Grace: A Discourse on the Apostles' Fast

Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov speaks about the purpose, meaning and essence of the Apostles’ Fast; about how we can relate the apostolic ministry in our life—the apostolic gift of word—to our abilities; and about the need to humble ourselves verbally and to spiritualize all of our pronunciations.

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

Learning from Martyrs and Confessors: Homily for the Sunday of All Saints in the Orthodox Church

Fr. Philip LeMasters

It is tempting to think that what we read about in the Scriptures and the history of the Church occurred in a world so different from ours that it has become irrelevant. This Sunday of All Saints reminds us that our Lord’s fundamental calling to every generation does not change, but challenges the assumptions of every culture and the preferences of every human being.

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The Greatness of a Lesser World

Fr. Stephen Freeman

Tolkien and Solzhenitsyn (and others) gave great attention to the “littleness” of our lives. Our spiritual lives are surely no less specific. Our salvation is found in the little things, as is the truth of our existence.

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“Knowing the benefit of the fast, don’t lose it by negligence…”

Hieromonk Innokenty (Pidtoptany)

We must always remember that fasting is given to us for the spiritual joy of knowing we are called to repentance, to remind ourselves again in this time about our sinfulness, and after the Paschal period to at least for a while remind ourselves of the true meaning of fasting, which we experienced in the hymns and services of the holy forty days.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Holy and Great Council: The Importance of Fasting and Its Observance Today

Fasting is a divine commandment (Gen 2:16-17). According to Basil the Great, fasting is as old as humanity itself; it was prescribed in paradise. It is a great spiritual endeavor and the foremost expression of the Orthodox ascetic ideal. The Orthodox Church, in strict conformity with the apostolic precepts, the synodal canons, and the patristic tradition as a whole, has always proclaimed the great significance of fasting for our spiritual life and salvation.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Steps to Sainthood according to Jesus

Fr. James Guirguis

Let’s be faithful to acknowledge Jesus Christ in word, in deed and in thought. Let us love nothing more than we love Christ. Let us each carry the cross with faith that God sees our personal sacrifices and numbers each of them and will never forget them, but will truly reward us by pouring out His Holy Spirit upon us and transforming us into people who are filled with the love of Christ, into people who are illumined, into people who are glorified as real saints.

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Homily on the Day of All Saints

Pskov Caves Monastery, 1990

Archimandrite John (Krestiankin)

Fr. John talks about our apocalyptic times, and our calling to submit to God’s will as it is expressed in divine Providence.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

What is Holiness? Orthodox Spirituality, Part 1

Fr. Alexey Young

Fr. Alexey was a spiritual child of Fr. Seraphim Rose, and, as these videos attest, acquired his talent for synthesizing the Patristic Tradition and communicating deep subjects in easy-to-understand language. As the videos are in a format that cannot be posted we will be posting articles, with Fr. Ambrose’s blessing, based on notes on the videos, beginning with lesson one on the holiness acquired by the saints in their earthly life, appropriate for the feast of All Saints.

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Epistle of Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York on the Day of Orthodox Youth of the Russian Church Abroad, Celebrated on the Sunday of All Saints

Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral)

How are we to emulate the saints on earth? We should hold the Living God in our hearts, not abandon our interpersonal relationships, share heartfelt warmth and attention with our neighbors, help those who are in need, strengthen your parish families, and not distinguish between those born here and those who came from afar.

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Orthodox pastors on what should we do if the Lord does not grant us children

After getting married, newlyweds always dream and hope that the Lord will bless their family with children. But a year, five, ten years pass and the long-awaited pregnancy does not occur. What should a couple do in this situation? Beyond all doubt, they should keep praying. But do they need to do anything else and should they have recourse to modern medicine? And are all popular contemporary assisted reproductive technologies, such as extracorporal (in vitro) fertilization, acceptable for Orthodox Christians?

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A Truly Rational Faith

Fr. Stephen Freeman

St. Paul notes that “faith works through love”. This describes the very heart of the ascetic life.

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Three Thousand Souls in One Day!

Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis

That oration of St. Peter must have been pretty incredible, if it converted three thousand souls in one day! I often think about church growth—it is part of my “ministry” as a priest and part of my “job” as an administrator of a parish. Why is it that some churches are growing and others are in decline? And why is it that overall in America, at this time, churches in general are in decline? At the outset, on the day of Pentecost, three thousand people, who woke up that morning, not knowing what Christianity was about, were converted and gave their lives to Christ. How did that happen?

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Ritualism or reverence

On praying and keeping holy things at home

Alexei Lysenko, Oleg Starodubtsev

In Orthodox circles, some want to venerate wonderworking icons without fail, to visit “the holiest places”, to bring earth from the grave of one or another saint, to dry up and keep prosphora given them by a priest at home and so on. Do these practices bring us closer to paganism or are they indicative of our reverence for divine things?

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Thirsting for the Dew of the Holy Spirit

A Discourse on the Feast of Pentecost

Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov speaks on the spiritual and earthly aspects of the feast of Pentecost and on what each of must do and remember on this day.

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The Holy Spirit Comes Down as Fire on All People

Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis

None of us are likely to see tongues of fire on our heads, the way that the Holy Spirit came on the Apostles. But all of us have tongues of fire in our hearts, the light of the Holy Spirit burning in us. It is up to us to stoke the fire and spread the message. Come back tomorrow to learn the various languages of the Gospel and how to speak them.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Pentecost Homily of His All-Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew on Crete

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

A joyful day has now dawned, in which we celebrate the historic manifestation of the institution of the Church, which is constituted by the Holy Spirit, and we Orthodox brothers, who represent all the local Orthodox Autocephalous Churches, have gathered together in a liturgical assembly, so that we may carry out the duty and responsibility of the one Orthodox Church to the people and to the world today, by convening our Holy and Great Council.

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Why We Don't Sense the Holy Spirit

Fr. James Guirguis

The Holy Spirit is not some magical gift, but a personal encounter with the person of the Holy Spirit through His energies. The energies of God are given to us by His grace and not because we deserve them. Although this is the case, there are certain dispositions and attitudes that will allow God to magnify His grace within us.

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