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[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

How to Avoid Sinking: Homily for the 9th Sunday After Pentecost and the 9th Sunday of Matthew in the Orthodox Church

Fr. Philip LeMasters

Let us use our freedom to become God’s fellow workers in making ourselves holy temples. Let us embrace the divine power that enables us to walk across the stormy seas of our lives, even to share in the Savior’s victory over sin and death. We will be able to do so only when we embrace personally the glorious truth that our nature and purpose is to grow in holiness and union with the Lord.

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The Joy of Remembering God: Selected Sayings of St. Anthony of Optina

St. Anthony of Optina

"Do not be confused because dark thoughts often trouble you, for dark thoughts, like autumn clouds, come one after another and darken everything. But then they pass and the sky remains clear and pleasant. And so our thoughts wander, they wander around the wide world, but the mind remains planted in its place, and then it is quiet, and the soul becomes joyful. But our mind, from wandering here and there, becomes accustomed to the brief but often repeated prayer of Jesus, which may God grant you the habit of saying, and then your days will be bright."

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

A Light So Shining Before Men

A Discourse on the Great Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord

Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

Elijah the zealot who, as you remember, was able even with fire to meet brazen blasphemers attempting on the life of the fiery prophet, and, communing with Christ, to thereby bear witness to the apostles (and they were people, after all, literate and understanding) that before them—the apostles, Elijah, and Moses—was the long-awaited Messiah, the hope of tongues, He Who came to free Israel not so much from the foreign Roman domination as from the tyranny of the devil, from the domination of the passions, to shatter death itself, paving a path new and living to Resurrection.

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Doubt

Abbot Tryphon

Doubt does not contradict faith, for it is not the same as unbelief. Doubt can, and should, serve as the catalyst to our moving deeper into the spiritual aspects of what it means to be human, and being part of a family of believers who are on a journey into the Heart of God. Faith, if it be true, challenges the status quo, and catapults us forward out of our complacency.

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Anointing His Lambs with Oil and Wine

A Discourse on the Sacrament of Holy Unction

Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

The priests, one after the other read prayers that the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, invisibly serving this Mystery by the hands of the clerics, according to our faith might touch His healing finger to the soul and body of those afflicted, deliver from all sorts of ailments spiritual and bodily, raise up in us a spirit of peace, vigor, joy, and strength, make our bodies into instruments of the creative will of God, sanctify our consciences and make peaceful our hearts.

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Our Lady in White

Monk Kosmas Simonopetritis

In the dependency of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras, in Propouli on the island of Limnos, there’s a very beautiful and rare icon of Our Lady of the Harvest (1707). It’s the patronal icon and its main feature is that the Mother of God is dressed in white, rather than the customary purple. It has also worked a number of miracles and is venerated by all the people of Limnos.

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The Mystery of Marriage—the Spiritual Foundation of the Family

The Grammar of Family Life, Part 4

Archpriest Pavel Gumerov

Why is it necessary to get crowned in the Church? What is the symbolism of the rings and crowns? Why do the bride and groom stand facing east during the crowning? What does the phrase “to love as you love yourself” mean? What is the proper understanding of the words: “A wife should fear her husband?”

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Has the End of Time Drawn Near?

Fr. Georges Massouh

When Jesus' disciples asked their Teacher about the signs of His coming and the end of the world, He did not specify a date, but rather talked to them about signs whose purpose was nothing other than indicating that "the coming of the Lord is near."

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The Seat of Mercy and the End of the Legal View

Fr. Stephen Freeman

Among the more problematic words in the New Testament is the Greek hilasterion. It is translated as “propitiation” in some of the older English Bibles, and “expiation,” in newer ones. It’s actual meaning is neither.

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Patriarch of Romania: the Two Blind Men of Capernaum Become Teachers of Gratitude for Us

God in heaven will reward those who do good deeds out of merciful and humble love. These two blind men healed by Jesus Christ, our Saviour, become spontaneous teachers of repentance for us. They have become missionaries of faith, namely heralds of the merciful love of God and we learn from them how to thank God, show gratitude, confess Him as the benefactor and doctor of our bodies and souls.

[English Edition / Theology]

Dogma and New Life

Fr Touma (Bitar) on the Council of Chalcedon

Archimandrite Touma (Bitar)

For us, the ecumenical councils are, generally speaking, occasions for defining the faith, clarifying it, refuting every strange teaching and thus every strange way of life. For us, we receive the faith from those who preceded us and we pass it on to those who follow us.

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

Sermon for the Feast of St. Panteleimon

I wish I had the courage and zeal to tell you about this saint who rescued me from suffering and uncertainty.

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The Heart a Throne

A Discourse on the Mystery of Holy Communion

Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

As part of the special project “Mysteries of the Church” Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov speaks on the essence and meaning of each of the seven Mysteries: Baptism, Chrismation, Repentance, Communion, the Mystery of Marriage, the Mystery of the Priesthood, and Unction. Today we will talk about the Mystery of Communion, its meaning, how to prepare ourselves for this Mystery and how to maintain those gifts that a Christian receives in Communion.

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Fellowship with Heretics and the Grossly Immoral

Fr. John Whiteford

It is said of the Old Testament Prophets that they afflicted the comfortable, and comforted the afflicted—and that saying, while pithy, actually has a great deal of merit to it. If you have someone who is a heretic or schismatic, seeking to divide the Church, or a careless sinner whose behavior is causing scandal to the Church, such a person would be in need of some measure of affliction, to wake them up.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

What is Orthodox Asceticism?

Deacon Charles Joiner

Asceticism is a key part of Orthodox Spirituality. It is not a negative activity but a most positive one. It is the primary means by which we come closer to God.

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How We build the Church, Part 2

The Reading from the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans 15:1-7

Fr. James Guirguis

Last week we spent some time speaking of what it takes the build up the Church and specifically this church in this particular place. We were reminded by the Holy Apostle Paul that each and every individual within the Church receives divine gifts by the grace of the Holy Spirit.

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A Few Brief Comments on The Funeral Rites for Orthodox Christians

Rev. Fr. Dustin M. Lyon

Though I’ve not been a priest for very long, I have noticed that there’s been a lot of confusion concerning death and the customs of the Orthodox Church regarding the funeral rites. Because of this, I want to take this time to educate you on the customs of the Church and their meanings.

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

St. Seraphim of Sarov

“Year of the Lord”

Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

I greet you, dear friends, on the day of St. Seraphim of Sarov, wonderworker of all Russia and luminary of Russian history, the Russian land, and the Russian Church!Allow me to ask you a question: What is the main difference between our contemporaries and the venerable Sarov ascetic?

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How We Build the Church

The Reading from the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans 12:6-14

Fr. James Guirguis

In today’s epistle we hear some of the words of encouragement from the great Apostle St. Paul to the Christians of Rome. These words are a beautiful reminder to all of us who are here together to build this mission and spread the Orthodox faith.

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The Source of Byzantine Theology

Archpriest George Florovsky

It is not at all easy to distinguish the borders between periods in the fluid and unbroken element of human life. Moreover, the incommensurability of successive historical cycles is quite manifestly revealed. New life themes come to light, new forces start to make themselves felt, new spiritual centers form. Someone’s very first impression is that the late fourth century signifies some indisputable boundary in the history of the Church, in the history of Christian culture. Someone may conditionally define this boundary as the beginning of Byzantinism.

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