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THE FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Today's Gospel concerns the casting out of demons from two possessed men, their entry into a herd of swine and the suicide of those swine. There are several things that we can learn from this Gospel.
Jul 20, 2008, 10:00

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Sermon on Sunday between Ascension and Pentecost
During the Last Supper our Lord Jesus Christ told His disciples that separation was near, that He was to ascend to His God and to His Father as He would repeat again to the women who came to the grave. And when their hearts were filled with sorrow at the thought that they will not see Him again, He said, “Your hearts are full with sorrow and yet, you should rejoice for Me that I am returning to My Father. But I will not,” he added, “leave you orphan, I will send you the Holy Spirit, who proceeds from the Father, whom I will send to you and who will teach you all things.” And so do we here now while we are still in the light of the Ascension.
Jun 8, 2008, 09:05

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Easter, the feast of feasts
If any be pious and a lover of God, let him partake of this fair and radiant festival. If any be a faithful servant, let him come in rejoicing in the joy of his Lord. If any have wearied himself with fasting, let him now enjoy his reward. If any have laboured from the first hour, let him today receive his rightful due. If any have come at the third, let him feast with thankfulness. If any have arrived at the sixth, let him in no wise be in doubt, for in nothing shall he suffer loss.
Apr 27, 2008, 10:48

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Easter message
When Christ first rose from the tomb and appeared to His disciples and the myrrh-bearing women, He greeted them with the word "Rejoice!". And then later when He appeared to the Apostles His first words were "Peace be unto you!"; peace, because their confusion was very great - the Lord had died. It seemed as though all hope had perished for the victory of God over human wickedness, for the victory of good over evil. It would seem that life itself had been slain and light had faded. All that remained for the disciples who had believed in Christ, in life, in love, was to go on existing, for they could no longer live.
Apr 27, 2008, 10:03

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Forgiveness Sunday
Let us therefore go into fasting with this understanding, not measuring our fasting by what we eat and how much, but of the effect it has on us, whether our fasting makes us free or whether we become slaves of fasting itself.
Mar 11, 2008, 09:45

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Sermon on Easter Retreat: Anthony of Sourozh
Our reality can really be summed up in saying that God is prepares us to receive salvation. Salvation is an act of God that can only be achieved through cooperation, through the synergy between God and man. So we are confronted, each and every one of us, with this problem. Are we willing to cooperate? What cost are we prepared to pay to enter into this synergy between God and man?
Jul 6, 2007, 00:07

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Peace from Above...
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake…fro so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.
May 10, 2007, 19:04

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Metropolitan Anthony: "The Way of the Cross"
This knowledge is a knowledge of communion. I have said more than once that the word 'god' originates in a root that means the one before whom one falls down, one prostrates in adoration. It is the one whose presence, once it is perceived, brings us to our knees. And this is all that we can know about God in His mystery: God as impenetrable darkness.
Apr 28, 2007, 10:06

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Christ the Conqueror of Hell
The Byzantine and old Russian icons of the Resurrection of Christ never depict the resurrection itself, i.e., Christ coming out of the grave. They rather depict ‘the descent of Christ into Hades’, or to be more precise, the rising of Christ out of hell. Christ, sometimes with a cross in his hand, is represented as raising Adam, Eve and other personages of the biblical history from hell.
Apr 10, 2007, 14:51

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Holy Fire
The Holy Fire (Greek , "Holy Light") is believed by Orthodox Christians to be a miracle that occurs every year at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Holy Saturday, the day preceding Orthodox Easter. It is considered by many to be the longest attested annual miracle in the Christian world. It has only been consecutively documented, however, since 1106, previous mentions being sporadic. The ceremony is broadcast live in Greece, Russia and other Orthodox countries.

Apr 22, 2006, 19:41

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At the Gate of the Year
Year after year I have spoken of the New Year that was coming, in
terms of a plain covered with snow, unspoiled, pure, and called our
attention to the fact that we must tread responsibly on this expanse
of whiteness still unspoiled...
Jan 1, 2006, 13:40

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Christ is risen!
The Feast of the Resurrection of Christ is the beginning of newness, of a life that no longer fears death, a life that is stronger than death, a life which can face death in the way in which Saint Paul spoke of it when he said that for him to die is not do divest himself
of temporary life, but to clothe himself with eternity!
May 2, 2005, 02:55

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Instructions of the Holy Fathers on Spiritual Life
Who are these venerable men — ascetics and how are they unlike other Christians? While the majority of people were content to lead ordinary lives, these were people since ancient times, in Christ’s Church, whom He called "not of the world" (John 17:14). These righteous individuals dedicated their lives totally to God by isolating themselves away from worldly cares and falsehood, in wastelands, in deep forests, or in some other way shielded themselves from earthly temptations and the presence of outsiders. These were people thirsting for the truth, pining for higher spiritual values and ablaze with love for God, seeing the Kingdom of Heaven as their only motherland. Some of these righteous individuals attained spiritual heights and experienced blessed enlightenment that a majority of people could never see or imagine.
Mar 10, 2005, 20:36

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Sunday of Zaccheus
Last week we have entered into the several weeks on our way to the day of the Resurrection, when we are told to examine ourselves; then a time will come to think of nothing but the ways of God preparing us for salvation; and when we reach Holy Week, then we should have no thought, anything but the Lord Whose passion we will be contemplating before we enter together with Him into the glory and the joy of His Resurrection.
Feb 13, 2005, 19:37