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[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Fr. John Whiteford

Lent seems like a long time at the beginning, but it can pass you by quickly, if you don't make a point of putting forth the effort to pray more, attend more of the services, and to read more.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Feast of the Meeting: a Celebration of the Elderly

Fr. Lawrence Farley

What does this mean? It means that faithful service is important, and that God honours age. It means that our own goal should be to grow similarly old in the service of God, so that God can confide in us as He did to Simeon and Anna.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

A Fast of Righteousness

Fr. Stephen Freeman

This, I think, points to a proper (and rather simple) meaning of the term. It is not just some form of “social justice.” There is something more cosmic and eschatological about it. Wherever the Kingdom comes, its “righteousness” is made manifest. What does that look like?

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

“Mine Eyes Have Seen…”

Archpriest Andrei Tkachev

If we read the story in the gospel according to St. Luke about the events that we now call the Meeting of the Lord, we notice that the divine promise of the 90th psalm was fulfilled in the elder Simeon.

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Great Lent Encyclical 2018

Patriarch John X of Antioch

Lent is the queen of virtues. This is what we pray in the Orthros of the Meat Fare Sunday; we invite the faithful to receive Lent as queen over our souls, leading them to the shores of salvation.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

How to Strengthen Your Lenten Prayer Life

Fr. Stephen Freeman

If you want to strengthen your prayers, make friends of the poor. This story is a great illustration...

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He Has Given Us the Questions to the Final Exam

Fr. James Guirguis

Why do these things matter to the Lord Jesus? Why are they required of us?

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The Two Resurrections

City of God, Book XX

St. Augustine

The evangelist John has spoken of these two resurrections in the book which is called the Apocalypse, but in such a way that some Christians do not understand the first of the two, and so construe the passage into ridiculous fancies.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Prayer Preserves Chastity

Two Words on Prayer

St. Ephraim the Syrian

Prayer is a preservative for chastity, the training of the soul, the taming of arrogance, purification from remembrance of wrongs, the annihilation of hatred, and the correction of wickedness. Prayer is a fortress to the body, prosperity to a home, beautification to a city, might to a kingdom, a sign of victory in times of battle, and the strength of the world

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

On the Prayerful Remembrance of the Dead

Sermon on Ancestor Saturday, Meat-fare Week

Archimdrite Kirill (Pavlov)

In offering daily prayers for its reposed children, the Holy Church encourages all the faithful do this, so that they would with one voice and one heart offer fervent prayers to the Throne of God, asking that He give rest in blessed places to the souls of our relatives who have fallen asleep.

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St. John Chrysostom and His Liturgy

A sermon on the feast-day of the Holy Hierarch John Chrysostom

Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)

This man left a great many writings after him and indeed very few ascetics can rival him in this. Yet perhaps his principal work is something that all of us participate in and that plays an important role in our salvation—that is, the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

“The Seal of the Antichrist” or “the Seal of God”?

Sergei Komarov

All of us have heard about “the seal of the antichrist” many times, albeit it cannot be found in the Bible. Meanwhile, almost nobody talks about “the seal of the Creator” which is mentioned in the Bible.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Parable of the Prodigal Son

Archpriest Victor Potapov

The parable of the Prodigal Son is inexhaustible. It contains such a multitude of themes, that it is difficult to enumerate them. Each man, who delves into it with reverence, finds the answer for himself to questions about his own spiritual condition.

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“Blessed are ye when men shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.”

Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol

We see here an amazing thing: In the Gospels Christ changes our way of thinking, while logic suggests to us that when they accuse you, slander and persecute you, you are unfortunate. But Christ comes and says to you that, to the contrary, you are not unhappy but blessed and fortunate!

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Publican and Me

Fr. Ted Bobosh

So, now retell the Parable of the Publican and Pharisee. Who is the Publican in your life? Who is the kind of person you really despise? Now tell the parable:Two people went to our church to pray. I was one, and the other was . . . (name the worst sinner you can imagine – whether by name or by sin they commit). . .

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

Video and Audio of St. Paisios the Athonite on the end times

I repeat this: the soul that will have the candle lit like the five virgins, will enter together with Jesus Christ into the Kingdom of Heaven!”

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About the Pharisee, With Love

Igumen Nektary (Morozov)

But I think about the Pharisee in the parable and for some reason I feel sorry for him. Not only because he left the temple “less justified” than the publican, although that’s also why.

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Why is he more successful than me?

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

I think that a much more interesting question is: Why is he happier than me? I find this question interesting because it seems to me that happiness is much more important than success. Why?

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“It Is Not a Job That Makes You into a Human Being”, Or How a Docker Brought a Man Back to Life

St. Paisios the Hagiorite

This man was very simple-hearted. And he also had such humility that the thought that he had brought a dead man back to life never came into his mind.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Prayer the ultimate prescription for the heart

Fr. Barnabas Powell

Then came the epic surprise of my visit. The doctor asked if I ever pray or meditate, particularly in a way that involves being still and centering myself.

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