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A Forgiveness Sermon on Forgiveness Sunday

Fr. Andrew Lemeshonok

Without doing anything we receive limitless love, which allows us to keep our head above the water. This love brings us to the Church and to the chalice. Our God is so great that we can speak about holiness, about Pascha and Resurrection. Our God is so great that we are allowed to attend His Great Supper, where everything is transfigured and becomes God-like. Maybe it lasts for just a second, but this second is so precious…

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Trials and Crucifixion. Part 2a

Dr. Jeannie Constantinou

In this lesson we will get into the actual Biblical texts that we read during Holy Week about the conflicts between Christ and the Jewish leaders.

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Getting to the Point

Fr. Stephen Freeman

The English vocabulary exceeds 200,000 words. Thus, it is interesting when English doesn’t quite have a word for something. This is the case with the language of worship.

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The Aerial Tollhouses. The First: Idle Talk

The Way of All Flesh. Conversation 3

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Archpriest Oleg Stenyaev talks about the first of the tollhouses that the soul goes through after death; about how the words and speech of the Orthodox Christian should be, and; what sins bound up with words should we avoid.

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Holiness is not a Synonym for Weakness: a Word from the Patriarch in the Third Week of Lent

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill

Holiness is the realization of God’s law in our lives. It’s not a failure to overcome unrighteousness, human evil, and aggression; it is not a synonym for weakness. It is an expression of great inner spiritual strength, which helps to achieve success in earthly life, because before a saint not only do people’s hearts open, but also many doors—that to evil people are closed.

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How to Maintain a Prayerful Spirit Throughout Lent?

Pastoral advice

We are now in the fourth week of Great Lent, and many of us feel some cooling compared to the first days due to the hustle and bustle of everyday life. How can we keep a prayerful and focused spirit through the whole of Lent? How can we keep from losing the spiritual fruits acquired in the first days?

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Running From Pain?

Fr. James Guirguis

Let’s stand with Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane and just imagine what would’ve happened if Our Lord said “Crucifixion is tough, I will run away.”

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A Word on the Day of the Centenary of the Russian Turmoil (+ VIDEO)

A sermon at the Presanctified Liturgy at the Church of the Resurrection of Christ and the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church at Sretensky Monastery, March 15, 2017

Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Egorievsk

God’s lessons are at times very heavy. God’s lessons lie in the fact that He endures the carelessness, cowardice, and infidelity of the people for a long time, but then comes the moment when the careless ones themselves and their descendants must settle their account with bitter but saving trials.

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The Week of the Veneration of the Cross

Patriarch Tikhon (Bellavin)

This is an article by St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia that has never been republished. It was written when he was still an archimandrite at the Kholm theological seminary, which is now located in the territory of Poland, and published in the periodical, Beseda (Discussion), printed in Warsaw.

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Akrivia and Ikonomia

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

One of the problems in contemporary Church life is that on the fringes of the Church there are those who wish to absolutize “akrivia” and those who wish to absolutize “ikonomia”.

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At the Feast of the Theotokos

Fr. Andrew Lemeshonok

The Mother of God takes a scepter in her arms, which is exactly what a queen is supposed to do. The earthly kingdoms fall, and She offers us to come to the Kingdom which Her Son has told us about: “My kingdom is not of this world” (John, 18:36). No matter how good and fair are the laws of the earthly kingdoms, they are still imperfect, and this is why these kingdoms are temporary.

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The Healing of the Paralytic: Mark 2:1-12

Fr. Seraphim Holland

There is a man who is paralyzed, and he has asked his friends to help him. He has four that will take him on his bed, and want to bring him to Christ. Because of the press (the crowd of people), he couldn’t get to Jesus.What is this press, brothers and sisters?

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The Last Judgment is Within Us

Sergei Komarov

Just what the Last Judgment is, every person knows to some extent—even if he has not read the Gospels or heard a Christian sermon; even if he has no faith at all. He knows because every person has a conscience.

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Don't shortcut the journey to Easter

Fr. Barnabas Powell

On the way home from services last Sunday, I passed a church whose colorful banner proclaimed their April 16 Easter celebration. This surprised and perturbed me, though not for reasons you might think.

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The Week of the Triumph of Orthodoxy

Patriarch Pavle

You know, there were kings, and bishops, and other people who believed that icons were not befitting of the Orthodox Church. Perhaps these bishops and kings wanted to remove the icons from the Church to easily attract Muslims, who had no icons, and Jews to Christianity. Meanwhile, brothers and sisters, there were icons in the Church from the very beginning.

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We Are Made in God’s Image

Fr. Ted Bobosh

St. Gregory of Nyssa reminds us that as wonderful and spectacular as things of nature are, including stellar events in the universe, it is only humans who are created in God’s image.

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Monastic Tonsure: Second Baptism, or the Marriage of the Soul to Christ

Metropolitan Jeremiah of Gortynos and Megalopolis

Thus, the monastic tonsure is, above all, a repeating of our baptismal vows… but not only that. We can also speak of the monastic tonsure as a marriage. The soul of a monk or nun enters into marriage with Christ, and the angels are present at this moment and bear witness to the sacredness and indissolubility of this union.

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This is the Apostolic faith, this is the faith of the Fathers, this is the Orthodox faith. The Sunday of Orthodoxy

Archbishop Averky (Taushev)

This sermon was delivered by the ever-memorable Archbishop Averky (Taushev) of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in 1971. Many Orthodox were very concerned about the formation of new, ecumenical endeavors, especially the release of mutual excommunications between Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople and the Roman Catholic Pope Paul VI, and the entry of a number of Local Orthodox Churches into the World Council of Churches. Meetings were also being held in preparation for what would finally be called the Council of Crete.

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Do Not Be Ashamed to Seek Pardon

Ninth Homily on the Lenten Season

St. Augustine

These holy days which we are devoting to the observance of Lent remind me to speak to you about fraternal agreement, so that whoever has a complaint against another may bring it to an end lest he himself come to an end. Do not despise these words, my brethren.

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A Time For Humiliating One’s Soul

Sixth Homily on the Lenten Season

St. Augustine

Be on your guard against these tendencies, then, my dearly beloved. Consider what is written: Go not after thy lusts. If this most salutary precept ought to be observed at all times, how much more fully should it be carried out in these days when the relaxation of our desires in unusual pleasures is so discountenanced that even he who has not restrained his usual pleasures is rightly censured.

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