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The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew. (18:23-35)

Fr. James Guirguis

All statistics point to a significant change happening in the fabric of our society. Today there are more atheists in the United States than at any time in history, that is a statistical fact. Why does this matter?

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Our Transfiguration Happens Through the Cross

Homily on the Transfiguration of the Lord

Archimdrite Kirill (Pavlov)

Christians are triumphant and joyful as they celebrate this feast, because the glorious Transfiguration of the Lord gives great consolation to the Christian heart.

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On the Transfiguration of Christ

This is the exact moment portrayed in the icon of the Transfiguration - as illustrated in the Sinai icon above with the words of the Father inscribed across the top - portraying not just the divine energies of God's unapproachable glory—but how one may remain within it:

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Humble and Meek and Middle-Class Morality

Fr. Stephen Freeman

Morality (good behavior) has a way of self-justification. The morally competent all-too-frequently see themselves as the products of their own self-discipline and inner character. They fail to see that they are doing little more than conforming to the social morality of their class.

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On the Dormition Fast, and the Cross of Christ

Archpriest Alexander Shargunov

Again, by God’s mercy, we are entering the Dormition fast. This is the shortest and sweetest of the fasts. It begins with the blessing of honey, and then the blessing of the fruits. This fast is also the lightest, because the Mother of God takes care that the yoke of Christ would be light for us. She takes care for our bodies as well as our souls.

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“Lord Have Mercy” As a Way of Life

The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew (17:14-23)

Fr. James Guirguis

Often people who come to the Orthodox Church for the first time are quite amazed at the number of times they will hear us pray “Lord have mercy” at every service and especially at the Divine Liturgy. This is no accident but a purposeful habit that the Church, our mother, is trying to form within us.

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Russian Pastors on How Christians Should Spend their Vacation

It is just the right time to have a rest. But do many people enjoy their vacations without any harm for their bodies and souls?

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“To live the time of our lives in peace, and repose in repentance…”

Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol

The Orthodox Church ascribes enormous significance to time as the instrument of our salvation. Therefore the Church continually prays: “To live the time of our lives in peace, and repose in repentance, let us ask of the Lord.” How important it is that we should live the rest of our days in “peace and repentance”! But in what kind of peace?

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What is the Meaning of Passion-bearing?

Pastors’ Words on the Day of the Holy Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb

Priest Valery Dukhanin, Priest Dimitry Shishkin, Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

The holy, right-believing Prince-Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb were the first saints to be canonized in Rus’. Despite this, many Christians, and especially in our time, do not understand the meaning of their podvig. And really, where is the virtue in being meekly killed? Deacon Valery Dukhanin, Fr. Dimitry Shishkin, and Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov speak about the meaning and importance of the podvig of the holy princes and the last Russian tsar.

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Bringing Everything to Christ

Fr. James Guirguis

Today’s gospel passage about the 5 loaves and the 2 fish is a great reminder that God doesn’t need much in order to accomplish His will. But there is one thing that He requires…that we entrust everything to Him.

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Don’t Trade Christ For “Likes”! Russian Pastors on “Virtual” Life and Innermost Thoughts

What Christians should do in order not to “drown” in this sea of words which have become worthless?

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A Paradoxical Wonder: The Double One

Fr. John Valadez

The question of the human person is an ancient itch that continues to gnaw away at us. No matter how much it is snuffed out, the same spirit that drove the psalmist to question the minuteness of man and his existence moves among us today. Far too often the person is spoken of within the presuppositions of Western philosophy and psychology, stripping man down to a biological monad and ascribing reason, self-knowledge, and consciousness to be the defining characteristics of his person.

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Patience: Being Able to See Clearly

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Patience needs other virtues to bear fruit, otherwise it can just be inaction, passive tolerance. Patience needs to be coupled with the actions of love, kindness and mercy to be Christian virtue.

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Life: The School of Humility

Igumen Nektary (Morozov)

But our conversation will not be about the beauty of humility, but of the lessons that give us the chance to attain humility, the lessons that life offers, or rather, that the Lord offers throughout our lives.

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Why we should not fear the end of the world, or What in actual fact brings us closer to destruction

Priest Roman Savchuk

And so we see the patristic understanding of the prophecy of our Savior on the ultimate fate of the world is essentially opposed to that myth about the Apocalypse which is actively propagandized in the mass consciousness.

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Are We Wax or Fire?

Fr. James Guirguis

Nothing attracts others to God like people who are genuinely faithful to God and to His commandments. In fact, it is sometimes said that people have no problem with Jesus but that they have a problem with the followers of Jesus whom they’ve encountered.

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“If Laymen do not murmur they will receive the same reward from God as ascetic monks.”

Little-known quotes by St. Paisios the Hagiorite

St. Paisios the Hagiorite

If those who are poor, in need and are starving do not grumble or murmur, they will receive the same reward as hermits who struggle in asceticism on the slopes of Mt. Athos.

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Ceaseless Prayer, Through the Apostle Paul’s Personal Letter

Deacon Pavel Serzhantov

Then the service ends. The pilgrim leaves the church and heads to the feast in the refectory. But at the same time, he hears the Vespers hymns in his mind—“Lord I have cried unto Thee, hearken unto me.”

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St. Paul Apostle to the Nations

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Rather than focusing on all the good things we do – even when done for God – godly wisdom has us focus on God’s love for us.

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The Elder Ephraim of Arizona: His contribution to North America

Igumen Gregory (Zaiens)

I will introduce this topic with a question: What has Elder Ephraim done for monasticism in our land?

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