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[English Edition / Theology]

Biblical Exegesis and Confessionalism

Fr. Lawrence Farley

How should one interpret the Bible? What rules should govern our exegesis?

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Laying Aside our Ideological Weapons

Fr. Ted Bobosh

The political polarity and party spirit which so divides America is becoming so deeply ingrained in the minds of some as to cause them even to judge the Scriptures as being too liberal or too conservative.

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How to know God

Archbishop John (Shahovskoy)

All of the teachings of the Gospels are directed toward understanding of that very exalted, higher, meaning of life, love toward God and service to the Kingdom of love among men.

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Prophet Elisha and the Cursed Children

St. Ephraim the Syrian

Many people simply can’t get their heads around what happened with Prophet Elisha and the children. The bears tore the children for what would seem to be total baloney: So they call him “bald-head”, so what?

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Let the Dead Bury Their Dead

Fr. John Whiteford

The Lord who commands us to honor our fathers and mothers does not forbid us to provide proper care or burial for our parents, but the Lord’s claim on our time, treasure, labor, and devotion, must always take the first priority.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Paradise Is the Exile’s Longing

Priest Valery Dukhanin

A paradise without God is hell full of earthly comforts, a decorated coffin with decaying dead flesh inside. Man without God is an orphan with eternal melancholy in his soul, with a vacuous mind and despair in his eyes.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Faith of the Centurion

Fourth Sunday after Pentecost—Matthew 8:5-13

Fr. Seraphim Holland

Confidence in our prayers comes from the way we live, brothers and sisters. If we don’t live a righteous life, if we’re not obedient, then when we pray to God, we will not have confidence.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Truth Relies on Us All

Fr. Ted Bobosh

St Gregory of Nyssa offers an answer to the Apostle Judas‘ question as to how it is that God’s manifestation may be seen only by some when “objectively” the event should be visible to everyone.

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On Pews

Fr. John Whiteford

Pews do tend to make the congregation feel like spectators in the services, rather than participants.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Forgotten Axiom: Life Has Become Incarnational!

Fr. Touma Bitar

The sacrament is God's invisible presence in visible and tangible things. Creation has become an extension of the body of Christ the Lord. It was enough for the woman with an issue of blood to touch the edge of the Lord's garment in order to be healed. Christ has put on all creation as a garment!

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Problem of Profanity

Fr. Ted Bobosh

And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is an unrighteous world among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the cycle of nature, and set on fire by hell.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Prison Epistles: Phil. 1:1-2

Part 1

Fr. Lawrence Farley

So the question for us as we begin to read a letter that was written from the slammer, as it were, is, “Are we prepared to forfeit our respectability for Jesus Christ?” That’s the challenge.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Idolatry Leads to Anxiety

Homily for the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost and the 3rd Sunday of Matthew in the Orthodox Church

Fr. Philip LeMasters

Regardless of the form that darkness takes in our lives, we must not despair. Instead, we must use our weakness and pain as reminders to open ourselves to the light of Christ as best we can.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Light of the Body is the Eye

Holy Fathers on Matthew 6:22-23

And you, wise reader, in hearing about the evil eye understand it to be not the eye in the head, but the evil thoughts in the unenlightened heart.

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Lying On a Hospital Bed

Denis Akhalashvili

Suddenly you begin to think that, in actuality, nothing in the world belongs to you. Because the moment can come when you’re gone, and all this is left to others. At first this frightens you, but then you just start to pray.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Be A Follower!

Fr. James Guirguis

In every person’s life there are moments where making a certain choice or decision will forever change the course of their life.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Never Hurt One Another

A Word on Communication in Marriage and Life. Part 2

Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol

And I bring you a gift to express my great love for you. What great significance this has—to tell someone else with all your heart: “May you have many years of good health, and may God bless you!”

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Spiritual Strength

Fr. John Whiteford

In the wake of another cold-blooded school shooting, this time by a teenager who had been baptized in the Orthodox faith, rector of the Church of St. Jonah in Spring, Texas (ROCOR) Fr. John Whiteford talks about a sore them—how to keep ourselves going in the spiritual life and how to impart this to our children, against the growing tide of anti-Christian cultural norms.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Christian Zionism

Fr. Lawrence Farley

There is a lot wrong with the Biblical interpretations of the Christian Zionists. Since this is a blog and not a book, I will mention only three of them.

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Worshipping Father, Son and Holy Spirit

Fr. Barnabas Powell

I've been thinking thus about one of the most amazing people I've met: an Indonesian who was called to become an Orthodox priest and missionary to his land.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

What Is the Meeting with God and How Does It Happen?

Fr. Andrew Lemeshonok

When the Lord's grace touches a person and he understands that it is his personal meeting with God, it is just impossible to express with words what is going on in his soul at this moment. This event outperforms any human feeling.

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How to Properly Prepare for the Apostles Fast, and Whether a Modern Person Needs to Fast

Metropolitan Onuphry (Berezovsky)

In this brief interview, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine speaks on fasting, modern man, and role models.

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

She Who Possesses the Fullness of Gifts

Homily on the commemoration of the Vladimir icon of the Mother of God

Hieromonk Nikon (Parimanchuk)

A multitude of testimonies to her help have been preserved to our present day.

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

The Orthodox reverence of Saints

Bishop Alexander (Mileant)

What is the meaning of the Orthodox reverence of the holy servants of God? Indeed should we turn to saints for help, or is it enough to pray only to the Lord God?

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Children in Church

Denis Akhalashvili

When some people say that they don’t want to take their children to church, let alone Sunday school, because they are allegedly forced there to complete difficult tasks, to keep fasts and stand through long services, I tell them this story.

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“Its better to let teenagers be, pray for them and surround them with love”

Archimandrite Andrei (Konanos)

Many ask us priests, “What is your opinion on teenagers?” Around 20 years ago I used to teach high school classes, and I was also asked that question.

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

Renewal by the Holy Spirit

A Homily on the Day of Pentecost

Hieromonk Irenei (Pikovsky)

We call the Holy Spirit “upon us and upon these gifts set forth” in order to accomplish the transfiguration of life, that life would acquire incorruptibility, that the gifts themselves and every man partaking of them would be transformed into a new creation, not subject to death—transformed into the Body of Christ.

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What a Treasure We Have

Spiritual Instructions and Teachings on Pentecost, the Day of the Holy Trinity

Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov)

Everything that we have now in the Holy Church—all of its spiritual riches, all the grace coming from its prayers and Sacraments—all of it originates from the holy day of Pentecost.

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Is Being Good Enough?

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Jesus never taught us “Be good.” He never said those words.

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Learning from the Council of Nicea

Fr. Lawrence Farley

The Council of Nicea ended a long time ago (in 325) and Arius is very, very dead. Why do we still make such a big deal about the Council and commemorate it at such an important time—i.e. right after Pascha and before Pentecost?

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