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Elder Porphyrios: Peace of Heart is Established Little by Little

10/20/2020

Your constant care should be not to let your heart become agitated or troubled, but to use every effort to keep it peaceful and calm. Seeing your efforts and endeavours, God will send you His grace and will make your soul a city of peace. Then your heart will become the house of comfort as is allegorically expressed in the following Psalm: ‘Jerusalem is builded as a city’ (Ps. cxxii. 3). God has required only

Remembering the End

08/17/2020

By Fr. Stephen Freeman, August 4, 2016 Orthodox Christianity often seems inherently conservative. The unyielding place that tradition holds within its life seems ready-made for a conservative bulwark against a world all-too-ready to forget everything that is good or beautiful. There are subtle but important distinctions that make this treatment of Orthodoxy misleading and can lead to the distortion of the faith and an almost reverse image of our true salvation. Orthodox Christianity does not

Grace and the Frog

06/21/2019

By Stephen Freeman, April 24, 2015 When David completed the Book of Psalms he was uplifted with satisfaction. He said to God, “Does there exist any creature which You created anywhere in the entire universe which sings songs and praises which surpass mine?” At that moment a frog passed and said, “David, do not be uplifted with pride, for I sing songs and praises which surpass yours! … Not only that, but I also perform

The Twelfth Day of Christmas Advent. Saint Stylianos, The Protector of Children

11/26/2018

Saint Stylianos was born in Paphlagonia, Asia Minor, between 400 and 500. He was blessed even from his mother’s womb. As he grew up, by the grace of God he increasingly became a dwelling-place of the Holy Spirit. From childhood he displayed the rare qualities of his blessed life. When he was young and still an adolescent, although, of course, he was of the flesh, he never allowed desires to pollute his spirit and soul.

The Feast of the Annunciation of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary

03/25/2018

Commemorated on March 25 The Feast of the Annunciation is one of the earliest Christian feasts, and was already being celebrated in the fourth century. There is a painting of the Annunciation in the catacombs of Priscilla in Rome dating from the second century. The Council of Toledo in 656 mentions the Feast. In 692 the Council in Trullo celebrated the Annunciation during Great Lent. The Greek and Slavonic names for the Feast may be

Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Great Lent: Hypocrisy and Lies, Mother and Daughter. Are You Demanding Justice?

03/21/2018

Hypocrisy and Lies, Mother and Daughter Fire is produced from stone and steel; lying comes from loquacity and gossip. And the lie destroys love. No one who has any sense would say that telling lies is not an important sin. The Holy Spirit has severely condemned it. ‘You destroy those that speak lies,’ says David to God. [Ps 5:7] The mother of lying is hypocrisy, mother and also, often, its substance as well. Hypocrisy in

The Eleventh Day of Christmas. The Theophany and Healing (Part I)

01/04/2018

By Fr. George Morelli [1] “And the Spirit, in the form of a dove, confirmed the truthfulness of His word. O Christ our God, who hast revealed Thyself and hast enlightened the world, glory to Thee!” “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. (Mt 9:12) The Feast of the Theophany of Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ brings greater understanding of God’s encounter with His Chosen

The Thirty-Sixth Day of Christmas Advent. The Genealogy of Jesus

12/20/2017

By Fr. Antony Hughes on Sunday, December 21, 2014 We read today the genealogy of Jesus from St. Matthew’s Gospel. It is different from St. Luke’s genealogy and there are reasons for this which we do not time to talk about this morning. I would rather spend time on the point of this Gospel and that is, God became man to save everyone and everything. It is as Thomas Merton speaks of this using the

The Fifteenth Day of Christmas Advent. We All Come from Somewhere

11/29/2016

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be enrolled, each to his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be enrolled

The Ninth Day of Christmas Advent. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Faith

11/23/2016

And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. But as he considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying ‘Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit; she will bear a son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for

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Elder Porphyrios: Peace of Heart is Established Little by Little

Remembering the End

Grace and the Frog

The Twelfth Day of Christmas Advent. Saint Stylianos, The Protector of Children

The Feast of the Annunciation of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary

Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Great Lent: Hypocrisy and Lies, Mother and Daughter. Are You Demanding Justice?

The Eleventh Day of Christmas. The Theophany and Healing (Part I)

The Thirty-Sixth Day of Christmas Advent. The Genealogy of Jesus

The Fifteenth Day of Christmas Advent. We All Come from Somewhere

The Ninth Day of Christmas Advent. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Faith

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