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Homily for Palm Sunday in the Orthodox Church

Fr. Philip LeMasters

So it’s time to lay aside our usual distractions, excuses, and obsessions, and enter into the passion of our Lord by worshiping Him in the services of the church, as well as in every thought, word, and deed this week.

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Sensitivity

Priest Dimitry Shishkin

I was walking and praying for that Tatar, imploring God to bring him to the true faith. And, amazed by his spiritual generosity and sensitivity, I was upset and distressed about many of my fellow-Russians’ indifference towards their own faith.

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On the Virtue of Patience

Fourth Homily on the prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian

Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov)

Dear brothers and sisters, there is nothing we more often encounter in life than misfortunes and sorrows! What should we do amidst all these misfortunes in order to keep ourselves from harm, to not be conquered but to become conquerors?

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The Joy of Podvig

Abbot Ilarion (Lupulovic)

Man must step forward outside of himself in order to be joyful, to feel the fullness of life. Man must live in ecstasy, which is a word that denotes this stepping outside of oneself.

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On the Virtue of Humility

Third homily on the Prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian

Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov)

However, despite the high dignity and significance of this virtue, there is very little Christian humility in us. The spirit of open or concealed pride and vainglory possesses us, so that nearly every one of us thinks very much and highly of himself and very little and lowly of others.

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If you keep pushing on a spring, it will eventually recoil

Do Christians need to suppress their emotions?

Igumen Nektary (Morozov)

How can Christians avoid feeling like pressure cookers with so much internal steam pressure that their lids are about to blow off? How to find harmony between expressing your feelings and being reserved?

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From Lazarus to Lazarus

Nun Cornelia (Rees)

Profound is this bridge in our Lenten services from the parabolic Lazarus to the real Lazarus who was four days dead, who became an apostle to the Gentiles after the glorious resurrection of his Teacher, Christ.

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Not a Single Individual Will Be Saved

Fr. Stephen Freeman

How is it that our lives exist only in such a shared manner and yet many want to image that our salvation is entirely individual?

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Faith is a Journey Towards God

A Homily for the Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt

Archimandrite Gregorios (Estephan)

Christians know the mystery of Christ by the power of true faith and not by logical proofs. For this reason, the living Church, which is faithful in keeping the commandments of its Christ, plants in the hearts of its children the ardent love of Christ through love of the true Orthodox faith.

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Chastity, Humble-mindedness, Patience, and Love

Second homily on the prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian

Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov)

In our previous discussion, dear brothers and sisters, we dwelt upon the prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian and said that it is a profound prayer, filled with feelings of repentance and humility, and that every word of it finds a response in our souls and helps us to recognize our passions and vices and desire the virtues, without which no one can come closer to God.

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Wondrously Near to Those Who Call Upon Her

A Homily for the Laudation of the Mother of God

Igumen Nektary (Morozov)

Let us have hope that the Queen will not despise our humble praise, but that she will be merciful to us and vouchsafe us that joy that is never taken away from those who have found it, which she desires for every one of us from her loving, mother’s heart.

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The Danger of the Passion of Lust

Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine

On the eve of the Thursday of the Great Canon, the “Standing of St. Mary of Egypt”, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry talked about the main danger that comes from the passion of lust.

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Having Once Tasted of a Life Without Sin…

A Homily for Thursday of the Fifth Week of Great Lent

Archpriest Alexander Shargunov

The Lord gave St. Mary of Egypt to know what grace is when she lived in terrible sins, and granted her to see what an obstacle sin is for communion with God. Her answer to this gift from God should ever be before our eyes and should be our constant contemplation.

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How the Departed Interceded for a Drunkard Priest

A Modern True Story

The bishop who told this story is still alive. It is genuine and has profound significance, because it speaks of the prayers of the living for the departed. God always hears these prayers, especially during the Divine Liturgy.

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Life With Christ

A Homily on the Day of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

Archpriest Alexander Shargunov

From the very beginning, the Church saw in this image that which determines the life of every Christian and the life of the whole Church at all times. In one way or another, we find ourselves before this choice.

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Help Thou My Unbelief!

Hieromonk Paul (Shcherbachev)

Faith based upon rational experience has little value; it is closer to our customary knowledge. True faith is born from an inner urge; like a bird soaring in the heavenly heights it leads us ever higher upon the wings of fasting and prayer.

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On Christian Poetry

Fr. Dumitru Staniloae

Fr. Dumitru Staniloae, the greatest Romanian Orthodox theologian of the twentieth century, talks about Christian poetry and how it uses words that go beyond simple dry definitions in order to express a great mystery.

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Fighting on Ladders

Fr. James Guirguis

St. John’s Ladder tells us that all our life is a struggle to climb towards Christ. It is so very easy to fall, but always a struggle to climb.

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The Spiritual Ladder is Not Just For Monks

Homily on the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent

Holy Hieromartyr Seraphim (Chichagov)

Perhaps, beloved ones, some of you might suppose that St. John composed his Ladder exclusively for monks, and not for laypeople, inasmuch as there is nothing in common between your own lives—that is, of fathers and mothers of families and secular young people—and the lives of monks, recluses, desert dwellers and hesychasts?

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Songs of Light and Revelation

Fr. Lawrence Farley

But these hymns do more than simply summarize the content of the Gospel readings and offer a kind of musical precis. They also reveal that Christianity is a mystery religion, in which the risen Christ reveals Himself to the initiated.

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