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The Fifth Thursday of Great Lent. The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete

03/26/2026

One of the most sacred and inspiring theological works of the Orthodox Church is the Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete. It is exclusively sung during two periods of Great Lent. The first week of Great Lent, it is divided into four parts, each part chanted at Great Compline in the evenings from Monday to Thursday. It is the longest canon the Church has with 250 verses. Each of the four parts of the

The Fifth Monday of Great Lent. The Ascetic Life (St. John of the Ladder)

03/23/2026

Bishop Agathangelos of Fanari For the secular people of today, focusing on an ascetic saint represents a problem. How can the ascetic figure of Saint John, the author of the Ladder, speak to us, when he acquired and preserved the Grace of God through tears, prayers, and spiritual asceticism? In Orthodox teaching, the ascetic life is nothing other than the transcendence of selfishness, the attempt, in Grace, to apply God’s commandments, to live the life

Sunday of the Holy Cross

03/15/2026

~Sermon preached by Fr. Antony Hughes on Sunday, March 7, 2010 Mark 8:34-9:1 (Third Sunday of Great Lent) In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen. This is the Sunday of the Adoration of the Holy and Life-Giving Cross, the mid-point of the spiritual journey we call Great Lent and a turning point in our Lenten effort. From this point on we begin to look

The First Wednesday of Great Lent. The Nature of Repentance

02/25/2026

~Sermon preached by Dn. James Wilcox on Sunday, January 12, 2025 Matt. 4:12-17; Eph. 4:7-13 [Seven weeks ago] we witnessed the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry which began with Christ’s baptism in the Jordan…. [and] the first declaration of His public ministry, which is the call to “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!” Now when we hear the likes of such a statement — this call to “Repent!” — it often conjures up

The Eighteenth Day of Christmas Advent. The Third Birth of Christ (Part I)

12/02/2025

Stergios Sakkos Rebirth The third birth of Christ is in the life of people who believe in Him and accept Him as their own, personal God. Because even though Christ became incarnate in order to save everyone, not everyone will be saved. Of course, the Lord “wants all people to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth”, (I Tim. 2, 4), and is certainly all-powerful. Nevertheless, He respects people’s freedom as well

The Path of the Good, the True, the Real

11/03/2025

~By Father Stephen Freeman, July 25, 2023 Imagine a character in a story who is wraith-like, barely existing. His every move threatens to draw him deeper into non-existence. As it stands, others around him are only able to see him moments at a time. He often disappears for whole days at a time as he lapses into such ghostly non-being that he cannot be seen at all. Each step he takes either diminishes his existence

Saint Kyriakos the Anachorite

09/29/2025

† Dionysios, Metropolitan of Servia and Kozani Today the Church honours and celebrates the sacred memory of Blessed Kyriakos the Anchorite, who was born in Corinth in 408. His father was called Ioannis and was a priest, while his mother was Evdoxia. The then bishop of Corinth, Petros, who was Kyriakos’ uncle on his father’s side, ordained him reader. But Kyriakos did not find inner peace in Corinth and so, at the age of eighteen,

For God So Loved the World

09/24/2025

~Sermon Preached by Fr. Antony Hughes on Sunday, September 11, 2005 In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen. Glory to Jesus Christ! When we want to express love to a special person we often tack on the little word “so”. I love you soooo much and, of course, the more you want to express it the longer you stretch the word. St. John uses

Hidden Wounds

06/25/2025

Sermon preached by Fr. Antony Hughes on Sunday, November 6, 2022 The woman with the issue of blood suffered with her ailment for 12 years. Jairus’ daughter died at the age of 12. That’s an interesting detail. Was it a deliberate move by the author or authors? Or a coincidence? Who knows? Whether one or the other the number twelve appears often in Holy Scripture signifying wholeness and the power and authority of God. Jesus,

The Fifth Tuesday of Pascha. The Temple of the Heart

05/20/2025

Sermon preached by Fr. Antony Hughes on Sunday, May 17, 2020 One of my teachers in seminary once told us that all preaching should be about the kingdom of God. I suppose it was because that was what Jesus talked about most during his three-year public ministry. In Matthew’s Gospel the Lord mentions “the kingdom of heaven” 32 times. In Luke and Mark, the phrase kingdom of God is preferred. The Gospel of the Samaritan

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The Fifth Thursday of Great Lent. The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete

The Fifth Monday of Great Lent. The Ascetic Life (St. John of the Ladder)

Sunday of the Holy Cross

The First Wednesday of Great Lent. The Nature of Repentance

The Eighteenth Day of Christmas Advent. The Third Birth of Christ (Part I)

The Path of the Good, the True, the Real

Saint Kyriakos the Anachorite

For God So Loved the World

Hidden Wounds

The Fifth Tuesday of Pascha. The Temple of the Heart

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