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“Church Music Opens Up Gradually”: an Interview with Eugene Prokofiev, the Precentor of the Brothers’ Choir of St. Elisabeth Convent

A person who does not go to church cannot learn to be a precentor. It seems to me that church music is discovered little by little as long as your heart becomes pure and meek…

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Elder Kirill on the Prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian

Homily 1

Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov)

Every word of it finds a response in our souls, and helps us in our prayer to God for help in the struggle with the passions.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Time to give thanks for Christ's sacrifice

Fr. Barnabas Powell

To any outside observer, especially one coming from a more intellectualized and less incarnational form of modern Christianity, this physical ritual probably seems odd and uncomfortable. Bowing. Kneeling. Kissing things. It all sounds so primitive.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

An Explanation of the Prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian: the whole text

St. Luke, Archbishop of Crimea

In reading this explanation of this prayer, repeated many times at every service during Great Lent, may we discover new meaning and inspiration for our Lenten struggle.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Look Into Your Own Heart

An explanation of the prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian, Part 9

St. Luke, Archbishop of Crimea

We are all like flies, which settle in clusters onto festering wounds, focusing all our attention on our neighbor’s sinful wounds while forgetting about our own.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Behind Suffering is Concealed the Love of God

The Week of the Veneration of the Cross

Fr. Daniel Sysoev

Today the Church, in the heart of Great Lent, when we are already exhausted from fasting, offers us all a wondrous remedy—the veneration of the tree of the crucified Savior Christ. It’s a wondrous work of the Church that shows its true spiritual wisdom. What is the Cross of the Lord?

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

VIDEO: 8 questions of Saint Paisios the Athonite

Everyone desires joy and many people look for it in places where there is no joy… Some people look for joy in lust, some in eating and drinking, some others in revelries, others in money, some others in splurge… They seek to find joy, but is there joy in those things? Is there joy in the wallet, as much as full it is? How many people have many wallets full of money but still they don’t have joy?

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Women’s Gifts

Fr. Lawrence Farley

There is much talk among Christian feminists of the necessity of utilizing “women’s gifts” in the Church and of the subsequent necessary ordination of women in order to allow for this utilization.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Two Roads

Fr. James Guirguis

Now is the time to choose a path and there are only these two paths available to us.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Falling Asleep on the Cross

Fr. Ted Bobosh

The image of Christ falling asleep on the cross is deeply rooted in the theology that God is passionless.

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

On the Holy Cross and Human Suffering

A Homily for the Third Sunday of Great Lent

Archimandrite Ioanichie (Balan)

Suffering is the most daring apostle of all time. It silently preaches Christ, for wherever the word of the Gospel does not enter, there is the cry of suffering. Wherever the apostolic voice is not heard, the groan of suffering is heard. Wherever a priest cannot enter, there is sorrow, and whatever a priest cannot do, suffering does.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

God is Love

An explanation of the prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian, Part 8

St. Luke, Archbishop of Crimea

But now has come the terrible time about which the Lord spoke, indicating the signs of His Second Coming: And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another (Matt. 24:10). This is what torments and rends our hearts.

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

A Word of Consolation

Archpriest Pavel Gumerov

But we, Orthodox Christians, must dissolve our sorrow with Christian hope, that if we ourselves will be saved, and if we will save our loved ones by our prayers, then we dare to believe that we will meet them there, in the other life. And if they reach the Heavenly Kingdom, then they will certainly pray for us there.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Salvation is in Patience

An explanation of the prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian, Part 7

St. Luke, Archbishop of Crimea

Do you hear? Patience makes us perfect, without any inadequacies.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Looking at the Lenten Prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian

Fr. Lawrence Farley

The questions usually arise regarding the first petition, and what is meant by “sloth, despair, lust of power, and idle talk”. Avoiding these sins is difficult enough, but first we have to understand what sins we are striving against.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Humility is the Root of Everything

An explanation of the prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian, Part 6

St. Luke, Archbishop of Crimea

Don’t you want God to live with you? He Himself says that He lives in the hearts of the humble and revives them; and we so badly need out hearts to be revived! God looks down on the humble of heart.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

What is life without the forgiveness of sins?

Fr. James Guirguis

One of the beautiful things that we learn from the lives of the saints is that there is not one right way to live the life of a saint or become a saint.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Forbidden Fruit

An explanation of the prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian, Part 5

St. Luke, Archbishop of Crimea

This great ascetic and desert dweller, St. Ephraim the Syrian, prayed that the Lord give him the spirit of chastity. Could it really be that he had need of that prayer? He considered that he needed to pray for this, and all the saints prayed for this. Why?

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

“Great Lent is a Time of Intensified Work On Yourself”

A Conversation with Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine

Sergei Geruk, Metropolitan Onuphry (Berezovsky)

Our conversation is about how to properly spend Great Lent, and how to avoid mistakes and extremes, in order to find “your measure” in your Lenten labors.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The power of fasting (Fr. Nikon of New Skete) (VIDEO)

In this video, Fr. Nikon of New Skete, Mount Athos, talks about the power of fasting and the common misconception that ‘it is not a sin what goes into the mouth, but what comes out of it’.

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