Fr. Ted delivers a lecture in Calgary at St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Orthodox Church Lenten Retreat.

Fr. Ted compares ascending St. John's ladder to traveling from earth up into space.

Fr. Ted explains that when we fail to take part in fasting or the sacraments, we create an identity crisis within.

Keith Thomas Sandberg speaks at a lecture sponsored by the Winnipeg Orthodox Clergy Association after the Vespers of St. Mary of Egypt.

Which Messiah are you waiting for—the real one or the one you have created in your mind?

Christ does indeed have a wife. She's the Church.

The most important part of the Paschal service is not the Holy Light, but rather the Divine Liturgy in which we receive Holy Communion.

Fr. Ted explores the hierarchy of deacon, priest, and bishop.

Fr. Ted discusses what you will see in Divine Liturgy that includes an ordination.

St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church has a new deacon. Listen here to the ordination speech by the newly ordained Dn. John Karvelas.

Fr. Ted discusses the importance of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council and St. Justin, the Philosopher and Martyr.

Fr. Ted points out that the Spirit of God always brings people together, brings understanding, brings Truth, and brings love.

Fr. Ted addresses misconceptions about saints and the role of saints in the Church.

Always remember that God went through everything that we are asked to go through and more.

Fr. Ted explains why St. Peter and St. Paul are commemorated together.

If the window of our soul is clean, then light comes in and illumines all things.

Christians should be more interested in healing the soul than in healing the body.

The whole point of the Christian life is to stay on course. Sin is deviating from that course.

What we mean by humility and witnessing for Christ here in the Western world is a far different thing from what Christians are experiencing in the Middle East.

The priest is simply the vehicle by which Christ moves us from one place to another.

The world's time is different than God's time, and we need to be able to strike a balance between the two.

The cross is a symbol of how we should live our lives.

Parents should be the first teachers of the Faith to their children.

The deep symbolism in the Church is there to involve us, but it takes time, effort, and education for this to occur.

God calls us from the rest of humanity to become something different than what we are.

Thanksgiving should be the core of our being as Orthodox Christians.

Sunday school should just be about reinforcing what is taught in the Divine Litrgy and not a replacement of it.

When your soul is not filled with the Holy Spirit, there is room for other things to enter.

Everything we do that has spiritual meaning should happen within the Church.

The reason the Nativity fast exists is to remind us of who we are in Christ and what we cannot take with us to the world to come.

Fr. Ted reminds us that our first call is to be truly Christian.

It is very, very dangerous to commune without the proper preparation.

Confession has three parts that are absolutely necessary for the Christian life and for developing a healthy psyche.

Christmas is important because God became man.

Fr. Ted explains why we bless the waters during Theophany.

There is a great difference between the word "Christian" and the actual reality of living like a Christian.

There is a parallel between what happens to Zacchaeus to what happens to us every Sunday.

Fr. Ted encourages us to fully experience the lenten struggle and all that it entails.

There are two paths—a path of life and a path of death—and we need to make sure that we are on the right one when it is time to meet our Lord.

If we try to take the Lenten journey alone, we will fail because none of us are strong enough to defeat the army which is against us.

The way we approach suffering as Christians can become a witness to how one should suffer properly.

We fast to free ourselves from the slavery of the passions.

Fr. Ted speaks at an adult lenten retreat at All Saints Greek Orthodox Church in Toronto, Ontario.

Too often we seek to bend the Church to our own will instead of bending our will to meet that of God.

Fr. Ted shares his Paschal homily.

The more secular society gets, the more we begin to forget those things that used to come naturally to us.

The Resurrection is the lens through which we should read the Bible.

In contrast to both Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, the Orthodox Church has always worked within council.

Sometimes even our families can become idols—especially when we place worldly cares ahead of Christ.