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A Winter's Tale

Fr. Gregory's sermon for October 31 is on neo-paganism and how it is reflected in Halloween.




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Christ Our Peace

Christ gives peace but more importantly He IS our Peace.




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Chariots of Fire

Fr. Gregory speaks about St. Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch.




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Ready for God

Fr. Gregory speaks about the feast of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple.




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Doing Battle

Fr. Gregory speaks about the spiritual warfare we all face as Christians.




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The Big One

What is the most important question of all time? Fr. Gregory addresses that in today's episode.




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God's RSVP

The banquet table is set and the invitation is from God Himself. How will we respond?




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All That is Human, All That is God

God came to earth to undo the ravages of sin and death. He could only do this by taking upon himself our flesh.




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The Flight From Egypt

St Matthew sees the flight into Egypt as the fulfilment of Hosea’s prophecy.




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Preparing the Way (Sunday after Theophany)

We are to point to Christ and not ourselves as we prepare the way for others to receive Him; we decrease that Christ might be glorified in and through us.




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Water Water Everywhere

Father Gregory speaks about the significance of water in his homily for the Feast of Theophany.




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The Gift Beyond All Gifts

The greatest gift, the Gift beyond all gifts, is the Gift of God Himself in our Lord Jesus Christ. In the Divine Liturgy, that gift of Himself becomes something as basic as food and drink.




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Calling on the Lord

Great need calls out great faith.




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The Other Three Wise Men

We all know about the Three Wise Men who came to worship Christ in the cave, but today we celebrate other Three Wise Men: St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory the Theologian and St. John Chrysostom.




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Waiting for God

The aged Simeon and the prophetess Hannah were so incredibly blessed to behold the infant Christ, 40 days after his birth, and receive him into the Temple in Jerusalem.




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Crumbs are Enough

How do we react, what do we do when we pray and God doesn't answer?




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The New Martyrs of Russia

Fr. Gregory welcomes Fr. Yves Dubois as the guest preacher today.




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Merciful Father

Although commonly known as the parable of the prodigal son this story in the gospel today is misnamed. It should rather be called: “the parable of the merciful Father” for the story concentrates all its attention on the compassion of the father.




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The Last Judgement and the Love of God

In our lives, crucial choices have to be made and upon these choices our eternal destiny depends.




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Why Do We Fast?

When did fasting begin? Did Jesus start the whole thing off? The righteous and the repentant fasted in the Old Testament. Well, what about Abraham then? The fact is, humankind was taught to fast right from the very beginning, in the Garden of Eden.




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Overcoming the World

The faith that overcomes the world is the true faith, Orthodoxy, not heterodoxy or otherwise believing.




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When We Suffer

According to St. Bede, God uses our suffering to stimulate our fortitude, faith, humility, repentance and vigilance.




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Venerate the Cross

We need the perspective of the Cross in the midst of Great Lent in order to remind ourselves of the goal of that journey that we undertake through fasting, repentance, almsgiving and prayer. It is that we might come to the beginning of Great and Holy Week with a Godly intention to know nothing else but "Christ and him crucified."




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Hope in the Desert

Today's sermon is given by Dn. Christopher speaking about Saint Mary of Egypt, one of the greatest examples of personal repentance that we have.




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Cursed No More

Why did our Lord have to suffer and die? We cannot conclude with the benefit of hindsight that this was simply what He had to endure to make the resurrection possible. Orthodox Christianity insists that there is necessary meaning in both the death and resurrection of our Lord.




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A Personal and Social Resurrection

Fr. Gregory encourages us to live the joy of the resurrection all year round.




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Free At Last

Deacon Christopher is the homilist on Great and Holy Saturday.




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Grief Gives Way To Joy

The Holy Myrrh Bearing Women were the first to proclaim the risen Christ to their incredulous male counterparts.




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From Paralysis to Action

Dn. Christopher is the guest homilist for the Sunday of the Paralytic.




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Keeping Watch With Christ

Subdeacon Emmanuel is the homilist for the Great and Holy Thursday service.




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Looking Intently

Subdeacon Emmanuel gives the homily on the Sunday of the Blind Man.




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Going Up

Perhaps nothing in the Christian Church has been more misunderstood in the modern age than the Ascension.




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Not Quite God

There is one key issue that we now face in the post-Christian West. In so far as many people believe that there is a God they take the divine to be a simple, abstract, impersonal force




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Power and Fruit

How does the Orthodox Church understand the Person and Work of the Holy Spirit?




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Loving Christ As He Is

Deacon Christopher is the homilist today. He says we must be careful to respond to people as they are and in particular we must be aware that Christ is not to be fitted into some expectations of ours. We need to know Him as He is.




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Saints Alive

Subdeacon Emmanuel is the homilist and speaks about the celebration of the saints of Britain and Ireland as well as all saints abroad.




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Be Light

St. Symeon teaches that when we pray, the indwelling Light of Christ can lift us up to the very Paradise itself of which St. Paul himself haltingly spoke.




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The Light of the World

We are called to be lights in the world. We are the representatives of Christ in the world today, so of course we take on the role of being light to the world.




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Grow Up!

Subdeacon Emmanuel is the homilist today. There is a light that wants to shine on us. However, it can only shine brightly if we move with Jesus from our childhood homes where we grew up to our present homes where we can now grow into being disciples of Jesus Christ.




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Keeping it Personal

Christianity is a personal affair. It is not abstract, theoretical, a speculative philosophy. It is a personal encounter with the living God who is himself three persons sharing one divine nature.




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Give to Receive

Deacon Christopher is the speaker today and talks about God doing great things with scarce resources.




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Walking Without Fear

It is fear that hinders our walk with God.




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Hope in Our Lady

Fr. Dn. Christopher speaks about the Dormition of the Theotokos.




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Increase Our Faith

What does it mean to have faith and how can we increase it?




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Happy New Year!

Fr. Gregory Hallam reflects on the new liturgical year and three mighty manifestations of the Divine Glory.




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The Healing Cross

Dn. Christopher gives the homily and says that Christ has destroyed death and the power of evil; he dealt with it in His passion. We have to repent to allow this salvation to work within us.




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Losing It

What did Jesus mean when He said to take up our cross and follow Him? Fr. Gregory teaches about the principle of losing ourselves to gain Christ.




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On Being Called

What happens after we have worked hard, done our best and achieved nothing?




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Kingdom Living

If we are to live effectively in the power of God, if we are to know his power to save even in adverse circumstances; then we must listen to him now and do His will, not put it off, not make excuses.




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On God's Terms

Perhaps it seems capricious and arbitrary of God to deal one way with one situation and remain distant in another; but to demand to know why God does certain things and not others is to demand that He should be answerable to us.