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[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Wedding Garment

An excerpt from Parables of the Gospel by Pope Saint Gregory the Dialogist

St. Gregory the Dialogist

What is meant, brethren, by this wedding garment? It cannot signify either Baptism or faith, because who can enter this marriage feast without Baptism or without faith? Because undoubtedly the mere fact of not believing excludes one from the Church.

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The Holy Fathers on Illness

Fr. Alexey Young

Everyone, whether or not he is a Christian, must expect a certain amount of sickness and discomfort to enter his life. Physical pain is universal; no one escapes it. Therefore, how much we suffer from illness, or how intensely, does not matter so much as how we understand these infirmities. The understanding is all.

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Mutual Trust

The most important element for bringing the souls of the sisters close to their abbess

Abbess Theoxeni

With God’s help, the abbess finds ways to overcome difficulties and to heal spiritual illnesses. In order to achieve this the abbess is called to love each sister with a spiritual love, to instruct with love, and to endure the infirmities of her spiritual children, just as the Lord endures our sins.

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“Should We Just Sit and Do Nothing?”

Priest Vasily Kutsenko

A text message comes from his favorite clothing store informing that huge discounts are at hand and he feels he needs to renew his wardrobe. In a word, he has a whole lot of problems to solve promptly, preferably without headache and complications. And there is no getting away from it: he has to worry about his future, not least about tomorrow, all the time.

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“Pray For Me, Mama”

Vassa Bogdanov

The Lord gives life everlasting! And to all those who have gone through this, I say: All the pain in your life is from unrepentant sin. Make haste to God and repent, and He will heal your soul. Everything can change, as long as we’re alive.”

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“Descent” as a Way of Meeting God

Archimandrite Zacharias (Zacharou)

Archimandrite Zacharias from the Monastery of St. John the Baptist in Essex, England, founded by the saintly Elder Sophrony (Sakharov) explains how “descent” is a perfect way to meet God.

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Marching Orders

The Reading from the First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians. (16:13-24)

Fr. James Guirguis

We are also watchful when we take care that we don’t neglect our own spiritual lives and lose our focus. The Lord Jesus says that if we are not ready for His coming, it will be “like a thief in the night.” We can meet our king at any moment. The apostle asks us to be watchful so that the moment does not catch us off guard.

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

The American Acquisition of the Patristic Mind

The Significance of Fr. Seraphim Rose for the Christian of Today

Vincent Rossi

Fr. Seraphim’s soul was transformed by Tradition (the life of the Holy Spirit in the Church) into a flaming sword, capable of rending the veil of delusions of the modern world and revealing the Holy Place: the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic and Orthodox Church.

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The Salvation of the World

Fr. Ted Bobosh

St. Paul uses several different images of the Church—the Body of Christ. In them it is always clear that to be a Christian is to be integrated into something greater than oneself—a body, a temple. We cannot be Christians without being part of this greater whole, which is the Church. As the early Christians noted, “One Christian is no Christian.”

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“Forgive Me, Son!”

About how the Lord enlightened a wayward husband who had abandoned his family

Monk Barsanuphius (Kuznetsov)

Fr. Paramon said that when his mom was pregnant with him, she was afraid to give birth, and tearfully prayed to the Mother of God to help relieve the painful pangs and sufferings, and she saw the majestic Lady in a dream, who blessed her and told her she would give birth on the feast of the Transfiguration, as subsequently happened.

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The Patriarch’s Word. Podvig

The 13th Week After Pentecost

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill

When Christian martyrs—not only those of the first centuries but also of recent times, like those who languished in the Solovki prison camp—died for the faith, and this was not extremism, it was podvig. Not for themselves but for Christ did they die.

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On Constancy in Prayer and the Fowls of the Air

Priest Dimitry Shishkin

On the ledge over our balcony by the kitchen, a pair of pigeons has been living for a year now. That is, they appear there periodically, feeding from our household, and for them this has become a just as natural and inalienable part of their lives as flying, warbling, and making nests in the spring.

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Homily on the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God

Archimdrite Kirill (Pavlov)

Why should we rejoice on this day of the Dormition of the Mother of God? Because the word “dormition” alone shows that the death of the Mother of God was unusual. It was sleep, which was soon followed by joyful wakening.

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For a Rainy Day

St. Theophan the Recluse, St. Basil the Great, St. Dimitry of Rostov

I labored much but never saved money; whatever was left I distributed to the needy. But one day the thought came to me, “What if I get old and fall sick? Who will help me then, and take me in? How will I live?” That is what I thought, and began putting away money for “a rainy day”.

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Sermon on the 12th Sunday after Pentecost: The Rich Young Ruler

Matthew 19:16-26

Fr. Seraphim Holland

It is a very serious question by a very serious young man, and it demands a very serious answer. Our Lord does not disappoint him in this regard. He actually gave an answer in three steps, because our Christian life is gradually acquired; we struggle for virtue, but we do not obtain it from the very moment we leave the baptismal font.

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

St. Tikhon of Zadonsk: Victor Over Melancholy

“There’s nothing I can do about it; I’m in despair,” can often be heard even from those parishioners whose experience in the Church has already enabled them to cope with many other internal problems. Melancholy, defeatism, mood swings, chronic fatigue from self and circumstances—it seems this is characteristic of believers of modern times moreso than of any other. But it’s worth it to remember that the saints experienced the same feelings—several—for example, St. Tikhon of Zadonsk.

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Strategic Delay vs. Procrastination

Hieromonk Alexis (Trader)

I chose to handle procrastination in reverse order since many people don’t consider procrastination to be a serious problem. They fail to recognize the long-term physical, social, emotional, and spiritual toll habitual procrastination can have on themselves, and in so doing they resemble people who, though sick, are unaware of the sickness, only to have to deal with the consequences of the sickness when it is too late.

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(VIDEO) Abbot Damascene: Social media and spiritual life

Hieromonk Damascene (Christensen)

In this part of his interview with Pemptousia, Abbot Damascene talks about the value of social media in the lives of modern Christians, highlighting at the same time its spiritual dangers.

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Before the Judgment Seat of Christ

Fr. Stephen Freeman

From my childhood, I have memories of the phrase, “Great White Throne of Judgment.” It comes complete with an abundance of frightening images and threats. It is the last possible moment before all hell breaks loose and the preachers at long last get one right.

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Husbands, Love Your Wives

Archpriest Andrei Ovchinnikov

We could talk about family life for a very long time, and such talks are necessary. Family should enter our consciousness as the greatest value, which we must preserve and protect with all our might; and our children and grandchildren should constantly hear about it. We should begin serious conversations on adult life with our children from the earliest years.

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