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Enmity, Discernment

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Christ’s Gospel commandments are hard. Sometimes they seem obscure, for how can we do them? Is it humanly possible?

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

To See Him Face to Face

Fr. Stephen Freeman

In both Latin and Greek, the word translated as “person,” actually refers to the face, or a mask (as a depiction of the face). The face is not only our primary presentation to the world, and our primary means of relationship, it is also, somehow, that which is most definitively identified with our existence as persons.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Trying to Resemble a Genuine Community in Christ

Igumen Nektary (Morozov)

Christian ministry… Despite its apparent simplicity, today this expression remains obscure for many parishioners. Or, more often, it is clear only “in general” but is somewhat inapplicable to one’s own life.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Lord Hath Sent Redemption unto His People

On Psalm 110

Fr. John Whiteford

If Christ thought it was important for His Apostles to learn all this at that crucial moment in His earthly ministry, then I think it is important for us to go with some regularity to the Old Testament and have a look, to see those very same things that Christ showed His disciples.

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The Mystery of Liturgy

Archimandrite Sergius (Bowyer)

In this new video, Schema-Archimandrite Sergius (Bowyer), abbot of St. Tikhon's Monastery in Waymart, PA, America's oldest Orthodox monastery, speaks about the great mysteries of the Liturgy in which we meet the Incarnate and Risen Lord. "The eternal and living God became flesh and through this same flesh we know God, we touch God, we handle God, we experience God, and the Liturgy is actually the place that this incarnatioanal view of the Church plays out in a magnificent symphony of sound, sight, smell, taste, of encountering the Incarnate God."

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

Christmas: Becoming Truly Human

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Certainly if one studies the layout of Herod’s Jerusalem temple, we get the visible, physical sense that there was a wall (several!) separating the Gentiles from God. St. Paul says, and the hymn certainly picks up this theme, that any “wall” which had separated us from God is abolished.

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Beginning the Way of the Cross

Here we say that Christ has brought a person there, and there we need to live with Christ. If there are our personal opinions, habits, proclivities, characters and other attributes of life, then we have to forget about them. And we can spend our whole life battling them. We have to spend our life on becoming a novice, on our obedience. We do not obey a human, we obey God!

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

Christmastide: What is the Season and How are We Supposed to Spend it?

Fr. Andrei Chizhenko

In the Church liturgical cycle the Nativity of Christ is the second most important festival after Easter and that is why it is celebrated for whole twelve days. As always, the all-merciful Lord abundantly pours out His grace and light upon us. Hence the Russian name of this season: “Svyatki”, that is, “Holy Days”.

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

God Entered into the Depths of Human Life

St. Justin Popovic

In truth God as a man was born on earth! Why? That we might live through him (1 John 4:9). For without the God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ, human life is wholly and completely a suicidal absurdity, and death is truly the most outright and horrible absurdity on earth.

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

Nativity Encyclicals of Orthodox Hierarchs

2016 / 2017

In honor of the great feast of the Nativity in the flesh of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ, we present here a collection of Nativity encyclicals from some of our Orthodox primates from around the world, which help to expound upon the depth of meaning of the feast and to draw our hearts and minds to greater attention and devotion to the Lord and His saving will for us.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Holy Name

Fr. Stephen Freeman

It is easy to say, without fear of contradiction, that no group within Christianity holds greater reverence for the name of Jesus, in word and in practice than Orthodox Christianity.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The “Impossible” Commandment

Natalia Goroshkova, Archimandrite Markell (Pavuk)

“Of course, it is easier to say, ‘That is impossible nowadays. I will live my life however I please.’” Archimandrite Markell (Pavuk), confessor of the Kiev Theological Seminary and Academy, advises us not to seek the easy way but always to strive for perfection.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Christ and History

From a series of sermons by Fr. John Whiteford, the rector of St. Jonah Orthodox Church, Spring, Texas

Fr. John Whiteford

If you read the Book of Genesis especially, you find this phrase repeated whenever is introduced a new figure, or basically a new chapter in the history of God’s people.

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

The Incarnation

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

Probably none of you has experience of being in the street; I had it when I was a child and a youth, and it’s a very unpleasant feeling to know that you have nowhere to go and that you are totally unwanted in any of the places that shine with light, which obviously speak of warmth to you.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Rest For Your Soul

Fr. Stephen Freeman

Among the greatest difficulties faced by Orthodoxy in the New World has been the relative prosperity of an immigrant Church. Prosperity makes for a Church that is nicely comparable to denominational America, but it does not produce saints.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Simple Thoughts for the New Year

Metropolitan Sotirios of Canada

Listen to me. In the New Year that begins, the first thing you need is faith in Christ. Why?

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The New Year

Metropolitan Vladimir (Sabodan)

We should think of God, time, and ourselves. Within this triangle lies our life with its essence and purpose.

[English Edition / Theology]

What kind of a God would allow such things to happen?

Fr. James Guirguis

The evangelist St. Matthew has left a wonderful present under the tree and he teases us to contemplate it and think about it and perhaps even to peek into it and discover something of the mystery of this joyous feast.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The New Year: The Mystery of Time

Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann

On New Year’s Eve we feel the mystery of time more powerfully than at any other time.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Salvation Army walks the walk and talks the talk

Fr. Barnabas Powell

So thank you, Salvation Army, for allowing other Christians to better practice their faith — and for allowing me to put on a red apron and wish a gentle “Merry Christmas” to hundreds of strangers, without feeling I’m doing anything wrong.

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