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Confession and Communion: A False Problem

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

Is it that Confession is obligatory before every Communion or is that you take Communion whenever you want and have Confession whenever you want?

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

St. Anthony the Great and God’s Help in the Struggle with Evil

Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Surozh

I would like to direct your attention to only one event in his life.

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How Zacchaeus Reclaimed Paradise

Fr. James Guirguis

Zacchaeus demonstrates his willingness to struggle to know God. He may look foolish as a grown man who is climbing into a tree. He probably got sweaty and dirty. It took effort. But it was all worth it wasn’t it?

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My Tongue—Friend or Foe?

Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

The identity of every one of us is unique and, moreover, can never be reproduced. It would seem that all have a soul and body, with much in common with one another to be found, but all the same, appearance, poise, and manner of dress are always individual, and especially our language, speech, words. Tell me a few words and I will tell you much about your soul.

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The Despised God

Fr. Stephen Freeman

That Christ is the precise image of the Father is put forth in the book of Hebrews (1:3). This is refined in Nicaea’s language of “homoousios” (“same substance”). But while that language speaks of “being” or “substance,” we easily lose sight of what is being put forward.

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Some Words about Obedience

If a person lives according to his own will, he deprives himself of true joy. He can be near it, he can “see” it, but he is always outside it. Just as if you looked through the window and saw people celebrating something inside, while you were standing outside and felt cold and sad…

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On the Virtue of Goodness

Fr. Lawrence Farley

Goodness, as we see from the words and works of God in the Scriptures, is binary and discriminating. That is, it discriminates virtue from vice, and righteousness from evil.

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Go to Christ!

Discourse on the Sunday after Theophany

Metropolitan Meletios of Nikopolis

The Kingdom of Heaven is close to us. It should be spiritually close to us! But we have to understand: Are we spiritually close to Christ, or far away from Him?

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How Should We Build Our Prayer Rule?

It is impossible to imagine a meaningful Christian life without a daily prayer rule. But what should this prayer rule be? How long or short, and consisting of which prayers? How can we prevent our daily prayer rule from becoming purely a formality? What should we pay particular attention to, and what mistakes should we avoid? And what is the most important thing in a prayer rule?

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Excerpts from Sermons: "We came into this world to become similar to God"

The modern world is based on advertising. To make people pay attention to something, to thrill them, you need to find a sensation and something bright. But in the Christian life everything is quiet and peaceful. The more quiet a person is, the less attention a person demands, the humbler a person behaves, then the more grateful to God he is, the stronger the Holy Spirit supports him. The Holy Spirit is a Quiet Light. The Quiet Light of God’s love.

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The kingdom of the humble: a word on the day of Theophany

St. Alexei Mechev

A wondrous sight! The King of the universe is baptized by a servant, the Creator of the seas and waters is in want of the waters of Baptism, He Who holds all creation in His hand submits below the hand of the Forerunner. And all for the sake of mankind! God humbled Himself below all the sons of men. Such is the love of Christ. In this is the law; in this is the righteousness of this love.

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The Sunday after Theophany

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

After Christ was baptised, the first words that He said were: 'Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand'. But what exactly do these words mean? What is repentance? What is the Kingdom of Heaven?

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Love: The Power of Christian Leadership

Fr. Ted Bobosh

In Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Legend of the Grand Inquisitor” from his book, The Brothers Karamazov, we encounter contrasting and conflicting images of religious power.

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A Deadly Communion

Fr. Stephen Freeman

In our voluntary union with Christ and His Cross, we bear a little shame, and bring the cycle of shame and violence into the silence and healing of paradise.

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

A word on the feast of the Baptism of the Lord; on internal baptismal grace

St. Seraphim (Sobolev)

We must not only rejoice that we are children of the Orthodox Church, receiving from it this great grace; but we must unveil this grace in our lives, unto its wondrous manifestations. And this will come to pass only when we will steadily fulfill all the Divine commandments. Therefore let the words of Apostle Paul, heard by us in the Liturgy today, awaken in us not only a feeling of joy, but also the desire to realize this in our lives. Then the grace of the Holy Spirit will teach us the salvific, chaste, and holy life.

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A Word on the Feast Day of the Holy Theophany

Fr. George Glinskiy

The name of this feast reflects its essence, because God ceased to be a Faceless Apostle for people, Who existed somewhere far from our real being, and Whose will people had to obey.

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

A word on the eve of the Lord’s Baptism

Hieromartyr Thaddeus (Uspensky)

The holy Church wants to prick our souls with the spectacle at which the angelic powers marvel with trepidation: as the Master Who “rules the ungovernable waters of the heavens… is embraced by the flowing waters,” as He Who adorns the heavens with clouds is adorned Himself with the waters of Jordan, as the Creator of man Himself is stripped bare to cover the nakedness of Adam, to vest him anew in the light garments of spiritual rebirth, and to warm by these garments the fallen human soul cooled from the winter of passions.

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A handwritten letter of St. Seraphim to Archimandrite Anthony

In 2006, a photographic copy of a manuscript was published containing spiritual counsels written by the hand of St. Seraphim of Sarov to the then young Hieromonk Anthony, who regularly visited and sought advice from the Saint.

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Simple Images of the Kingdom of Heaven

Deacon Pavel Serzhantov

How can ordinary people like us feel what this Kingdom of Heaven is?

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Why Gratitude Matters

Fr. James Guirguis

Here we are confronted with the ten lepers and we see their reverence. Why did they have such reverence?

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