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The Myrrh-Bearing Women: Sacrificial Love
If you look deep in a woman's inner world, you will see the words "bashfulness and modesty" inscribed by the Creator in her heart. The very happiness and honour of a woman lie in this modest and...
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On the Necessity of Vigilance: A Sermon For Holy Tuesday
Spiritual sleep is not like physical sleep, which strengthens the organism; to the contrary, this is an unhealthy sleep, a sick lethargy, in which people pursue vanity while thinking they are living a...
View ArticleConcerning Patience
Sometimes we wish for our prayers and requests to be immediately fulfilled, not thinking about the fact that God knows better than we do what is good for us, and when to give us consolation. We weep...
View ArticleOn Prayer for the Reposed: Sermon on the Saturday of the Second Week of Great...
Look closely at man: for what does his heart seek, to what does it aspire? Why does nothing in this world fill or satisfy his soul? One person has every imaginable pleasure on earth, but nonetheless...
View ArticleThe Righteous Shall Shine Forth as the Sun: On the Uncovering of the Relics...
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit! Beloved brothers and sisters in the Lord! Today the Orthodox Church – the entire Orthodox world, and especially the Russian Church –...
View ArticleThe Martyrs as Models of Love of Neighbor
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit! Today, dear brothers and sisters, we are celebrating the memory of the Holy Great-Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica and asking his...
View ArticleThe Importance of Faith in the Afterlife: On Radonitsa
There is no man that liveth and sineth not. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit! Christ is Risen! Beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, one of the main questions of...
View ArticleWith the Saints Give Rest
Commemorating our departed ancestors in Christ today, it is timely for us to speak for our edification about a question of importance for each and every one of us: the future life beyond the grave. The...
View ArticleThe Faith of the Centurion
And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto Him a centurion, beseeching Him, and saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. And Jesus saith unto him,...
View ArticleStaying Afloat on the Sea of Life
But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me (Matthew 14:30). In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit! Dear...
View ArticleThe Generous Giver: On St. Nicholas
The Holy Church glorifies him in its hymns as a feeder of the hungry, a guide to those lost at sea, and the quick helper of all who are in trouble and afflictions. And, indeed, his entire life is a...
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