Sermons, Lectures

Veneration of the Cross

Veneration of the Cross

26 March 2011

Archpriest Thaddaeus Hardenbrook

We are quickly approaching the middle of Lent! Our refrigerators have been depleted of non-fasting foods that happened to be there and are restocked with simple but satisfying foods. Our palette, ...

Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods!

Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods!

26 March 2011

Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitsky)

Ask our contemporaries, how do they live, what do they live for? What is the most important thing in their lives? They will say it is family, work, social activities, business. A few will mention ...

Psalm 50

Psalm 50

22 March 2011

Archimandrite Vassilios Papavassiliou

It is therefore the prayer of a murderer and adulterer that the celebrant of the Liturgy recites (and makes his own in prayer) as he prepares for the Holy Oblation. For sin lies not only in our ...

Physical and Spiritual Illness

Physical and Spiritual Illness

20 March 2011

Priest John McCuen

When everything is going well, it is easy for us to live the Orthodox way of life. Praying is not a burden. It is easy to fast. We are generous with alms.We are not troubled by our sinful desires

House, M.D. and the Spiritual Power of Formula

House, M.D. and the Spiritual Power of Formula

17 March 2011

Worship based on novelty will produce excitement and crowds, but not prayerfulness, simply because people will not be able to settle down enough to focus on prayer. One might assume that if we take ...

Triumph of Orthodoxy Sunday

Triumph of Orthodoxy Sunday

13 March 2011

Archpriest Thaddaeus Hardenbrook

Along with the essential trio of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving, our Lenten effort, as average people, might be summed up in the words of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica, “Our life depends on the kind ...

Overcoming the Vice of Anger

Overcoming the Vice of Anger

09 March 2011

The ability to keep silent is very highly valued in human society. Not without reason is it said that silence is golden, but the word is silver. A silent person is able to control his thoughts, ...

The Joy of Christ’s Resurrection Should Accompany Us All Our Lives

The Joy of Christ’s Resurrection Should Accompany Us All Our Lives

07 March 2011

Time flows irrepressibly, like a runaway river, constantly placing man in new situations. We recognize that we are powerless over time. It seems that we only just celebrated the Nativity of Christ, ...

The Feast and the Eucharist

12 October 2010

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk

The annual cycle of church feasts and the sacraments of the Church helps a person to move gradually from time to eternity, to the gradual dismissal from things earthly and participation in things ...

Make your Glass Clean

02 October 2010

How many times have you picked up a glass at a restaurant and looked at it carefully before you poured in your beverage to drink. You certainly do that because you want to make sure that the glass is ...

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