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[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

How can we teach children to pray?

Fr. Andrei Chizhenko

Your sons and daughters will travel their own particular paths in life, but you know that the foundation laid in their souls is true. They will fall and make the same mistakes you did in your youth, but they will be their own. And they will get up to go on. But upon them, in their inner hearts' horizon, will shine the star of Orthodoxy, carrying them through life. Only try from a young age to instill in them, with God’s help, love for prayer. It is a journey, and its boat will undoubtedly guide us to God.

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Q&A with an Orthodox Priest on Prayer

Archpriest Andrew Lemeshonok

Prayer means shedding one's blood. When one prays, he struggles with the entire world. We break up the bonds of this world through prayer and follow Christ, whereas the world distracts, blinds, deafens us, makes everything possible to stop us.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Mercy and Love

Met. Georges Khodr

What is the meaning of the kingdom of God? What does it mean for God to be a king over people?

[English Edition / Theology]

Apocalyptic Angels and Unworthy Servants

A Discourse on the Sacrament of the Priesthood

Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

The priest is the apocalyptic angel of the Lord God Almighty, and, beholding our preceptors, holy and pious pastors, we, modern priests, are summoned in unity with the hierarchy our own hearts to edify, and human souls to heal, not for the sake of filthy lucre, not for the sake of vainglory, but to the glory of the Lord, Who, gazing upon us from Golgotha’s Cross, Divine strength gives us to bear the candle of the priesthood unto our victorious end.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Many atheists believe in God

Fr. James Guirguis

One of the worst ideas that has ever been circulated about Christianity is this idea that God is full of wrath and that He is actively seeking people to punish and throw into a place called hell.

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

Commentary of St. John Chrysostom on the Beheading of the Precious Forerunner

Matthew 14:1-12

St. John Chrysostom

But not without a purpose doth the evangelist signify the time, but to make thee observe also the haughtiness of the tyrant, and his thoughtlessness, in that not at the beginning did he inform himself about Christ, but after a very long time. For such are they that are in places of power, and are encompassed with much pomp, they learn these things late, because they do not make much account of them.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Gratitude We Owe Our Enemies

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Among the most difficult sayings of Christ are His words specifically directed to how we should treat our enemies.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

On the Way to Holiness

It is in the Church of Christ that man is nurtured and learns to live for the sake of the Eternity, learns to live with God and build all his earthly relationships through God.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Rules of Family Life

The Grammar of Family Life, Part 5

Archpriest Pavel Gumerov

Archpriest Paul Gumerov speaks about what is most important in family life, which rules are necessary to obey to live long and happily, and what to follow and what to avoid.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

“Try to live so that people depart from you comforted”

Igumen Nikon (Vorobiev) and his instructions

Igumen Nikon (Vorobiev)

The cure for sadness and grief is prayer or psalmody and thanksgiving to the Lord. If you compel yourself to read the Psalter with attention and intersperse it often with the Jesus Prayer and prayers to the Mother of God and all the saints, then your grief will subside and you will receive great spiritual benefit.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Passionately Drunk

Fr. Stephen Freeman

We live in an age where the passions are carefully studied and used as the objects of marketing. Those things that are sold to us (even those that supposedly appeal to our intellect) are marketed to our passions. Apple computer famously researches the “feel” of its packaging, presenting a sensual experience that is associated with quality, precision and value. It is a successful strategy across the whole of our culture.

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Forgiveness and the Healing of the Soul: Homily for the 11th Sunday of Matthew in the Orthodox Church

Fr. Philip LeMasters

Every human being bears the image of God, including our enemies. In that we have done something harmful to anyone, we have done it to the Lord. Remember the words of St. John: If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar (1 John 4:20). It is only by the power of the Holy Spirit in our hearts and souls that we will be able to live out our love of God in relation to every human being we encounter.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Do We Seek Justice or Mercy?

Fr. James Guirguis

What God demands of us seems like too much. But what God asks of us, He has already done for us. The Lord Jesus Christ demonstrated the ability to forgive even in the midst of His ordeals and great suffering upon the cross! He cries out Father forgive them, for they know not what they do! By demonstrating such an ability, the crucified Lord affirms that it is indeed possible for us to do the same. And by opening up this possibility of forgiveness, God will open to us the doors of His heavenly kingdom and He will allow us to dwell with those who have suffered injustices and triumphed through forgiveness.

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

Nurtured by the Holy Fathers: Lessons from the life and works of Fr. Seraphim Rose

Bp. Daniil (Nikolov), Hieromonk Damascene (Christensen)

Fr. Seraphim’s writings came out of his life. His authentic presentation of Patristic teaching to modern man was borne out of his own ascetic struggle against the passions. He was uncompromising with himself in his own spiritual life and he was uncompromising at the same time in his adherence to the Orthodox Patristic teaching, never watering it down to make it palatable to the modern mentality. Fr. Seraphim never published anything about his own personal spiritual struggle, but his printed words covering a multitude of topics, which touch the lives of people every day, breathe that struggle. Souls searching for the unadulterated truth of Christ in our Church sense in Fr. Seraphim one who did fight the good fight and who finished victorious by Christ’s grace.

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

She Speaks in Beauty

Fr. Jonathan Tobias

We need Wisdom. We need to see the Beauty of God, breathe it in, taste it and drink deeply from its springs. We need to understand Life again as shining with Love. We need to look in wonder at invisible Grace becoming visible in creation. We need to desire God, and to delight in His goodness.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

"You have no faith"

Fr. James Guirguis

In today's gospel we are witnesses to another encounter of Jesus with a family that has suffered. A father has just brought his son to the Lord Jesus because he is an epileptic who “suffers terribly”. This father has to bring his son to Jesus Christ because the Lord's disciples had failed to heal the boy. After the Lord has healed the boy, the disciples are curious as to why He was able to heal when they were unable to do so. Jesus' answer to them is also an answer to many of our problems “because you have no faith.”

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

The Incorruptible Flower of Paradise

A Discourse on the Great Feast of Dormition

Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

Such was the humility more honorable than the seraphim and more glorious beyond compare than the cherubim of her whose purity exceeds that of the angels and astonished the heavenly moral perfections. Such was her humility, her modest self-esteem, that she supplicated the Creator to ban the fallen spirits from access to her all-chaste soul. The Queen of Heaven knew that the ascent from earth to heaven is the final exam and trial which you and I shall invariably undergo—one sooner, another later, but we are all behooved once to die and then to appear at the judgment seat of Christ. This is why the feast of the Dormition is so important for every one of us.

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The Spiritual Struggle

Fr. Andreas Agathokleous

When we accept a situation that’s distressing for us, we immediately feel lighter. We may not get over it entirely, but the pain becomes bearable. We should always say ‘give us faith and grace’.

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

What does the Transfiguration of the Lord teach us?

St. Tikhon of Zadonsk

He who hearkens to the word of God does not hearken to man, but to God Himself; and he who does not hear the word of God and does not live according to the word of God, the same man God, Who speaks through His Word, does not hear. Let us listen to the Son of God, as the Heavenly Father exhorts us, and having laid aside all earthly cares, may every one take up his cross which will be given by Him, and follow after Him that He may guide us to His Heavenly Father.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The cause of our misfortunes, troubles, and sufferings: our sins

Before the fall of our first ancestors, mankind was happy: living in Paradise in close union with God and showing child-like devotion and obedience to Him, they were in need of nothing, suffered from nothing, and were fully satisfied with life. Living in happiness, man openly poured out his soul before God with childlike love, receiving Divine help from Him for his development. Man knew neither sickness nor death. All of man's happiness was because he was close to God and God was with him. As a loving father, God appeared in Paradise and conversed with man, as with good, obedient children. All of the surrounding nature was subject to man, as to its king, as the image of the Creator Himself.

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