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Zeal for the Lord

Fr. Gregory preaches on the healthy and unhealthy forms of zeal.




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Salvation is Nearer to Us Now than when We First Believed

The nature of Christ’s return will be within me and within you. We are now ready to put on Christ within ourselves in how we live as baptised Orthodox Christians.




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Stairway to Heaven

In his sermon on the 4th Sunday of Great Lent, Fr. Gregory says there are two chief enemies of the spiritual life, self-righteousness, or vainglory, and despair.




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Trampling Down Death By Death

Fr. Christopher delivers the homily on Great and Holy Pascha.




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Subduing Our Fears

It is the recognition of Jesus in the midst of the storm that calms the fears of the disciples. With Jesus around there is no need to fear.




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Heart to Heart

Fr. Gregory preaches about the Publican and the Pharisee as we prepare for the season of Great Lent.




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The Marriage of Heaven and Earth

The glory of Jesus Christ is known in all its fullness in the resurrection of his complete person; body, mind and spirit. The Transfiguration is a disclosure of both a deified humanity and a glorified Cosmos in advance of the resurrection itself.




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Increase Our Faith

Fr. Deacon Emmanuel speaks to the adults and Fr. Gregory to the children about faith.




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Reach Out . . . for the Angelic Choir

Dn. Emmanuel speaks about St. Basil and the first of the year.




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How Can We Find the Kingdom of Heaven in Our Lives?

When we repent, when we seek to change our lives and our relationship to Christ, what is “at hand”? What is near? What is about to happen? The kingdom of heaven!




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Get Ready to Grow Up

Deacon Emmanuel Kahn is the preacher today and says "Great Lent doesn’t begin for another three weeks until Sunday evening, February 22nd. However, I think the tax collector in the Gospel we have just heard from Chapter 18 of St. Luke has some important advice for each of us, whatever our ages, about how we can prepare for Great Lent."




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A Crossed Heart

Fr. Gregory is in Ireland for the commemoration of the Holy Cross.




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No Half Measures

Fr. Christopher gives the sermon on St. Mary of Egypt who was prepared to follow Christ, in the company of the saints, wherever that took her. May we have the grace to do the same.




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Plant the Cross in Your Heart

In the human heart we must carve out a Cross-shaped impression so that the Holy Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ may be planted there; for only if it is planted there will it grow and bear fruit.




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Fear Not Your Resurrection

Fr. Dn. Emmanuel Kahn gives the sermon on Great and Holy Saturday.




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Creation and Us

Fr. Gregory Hallam begins with a message for the children followed by Dn. Emmanuel who tells us that what we are seeking to understand is both life and the world from God’s viewpoint, not from our own.




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Is Christ Our Peace?

Fr. Emmanuel Kahn says "the work is not ours" therefore, anxiety is removed.




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Maintaining the Peace

Fr. Gregory preaches on how to “maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."




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God's Wheat

Fr. Gregory speaks about the life and martyrdom of St. Ignatius of Antioch.




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Seek Now the Peace of God

Fr. Emmanuel Kahn says whatever illness or problem you may be experiencing, give thanks to God. He has not brought that illness or problem upon you, even if He has permitted it to happen




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Heavenly King

Fr. Gregory welcomes visiting priest Fr. Raphael Barberg of St James the Apostle Antiochian Church, Westminster, Maryland to speak on Pentecost Sunday.




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The Healing Cross

Fr. Gregory speaks on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.




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Angels of God's Healing and Light

Fr. Gregory gives a tour through two of the lesser well known Archangels revealing some gems of insight concerning the brilliance of God in both healing power and enlightenment of mind.




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Legions in Retreat

Fr. Gregory tackles the difficult subject of depression and other mental health issues.




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From Crumbs to Bread

Fr. Emmanuel Hahn speaks about a woman in Matthew 15 who is not Jewish and asks Jesus Christ for mercy for herself and for her daughter who is seriously ill. Those few crumbs that the Greek woman begged from Christ became the loaves of commitment to Christianity for millions of people throughout the world.




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Grace and Peace in the Risen Lord

Fr. Emmanuel gives the 2nd sermon on Pascha. The first one of course, was read by Fr. Gregory and it was the Paschal Homily of St. John Chrysostom.




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Down to Earth

Fr. Gregory talks about humility as a lesson in the parable of the Publican and the Pharisee.




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Be Healed Inside and Out

Fr. Emmanuel Kahn looks at the healing of the man who was paralyzed. What does it mean for this paralytic and for us to be healed? From what do we need to be healed?




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Do You Want To Be Healed?

There are people who want to be healed, sometimes desperately, but there are others who, while they claim that they want to be healed, deep down do not.




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Peace on the Rock

We can know when Christ is present in our lives because He brings us a deep sense of inner peace.




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Crowded in Heaven

Fr. Gregory speaks about the Dormition of the Theotokos and calls it the most important feast of the Mother of God in our calendar.




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Through Death To Life

Christianity is really quite simple. There is a gift, Jesus Christ and we are called to receive Him.




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The High Pastures of the Heart

Fr. Gregory Hallam begins with the children and then Fr. Emmanuel Kahn speaks to the adults about the widow in Luke 7.




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A Great Gulf Fixed

Salvation for a Christian is God making good that deficit from perfection that we discover when we attempt to serve God, a falling short.




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Basil the Truly Great

On January 1 in the Holy Orthodox Church, we commemorate our Father among the Saints Basil the Great, archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia.




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From Earth to Heaven

Fr. Emmanuel Kahn gives the sermon for the Feast of the Ascension.




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Seeing Clearly

What is the Kingdom of God and how can we seek it?




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Rise and Have No Fear

Let’s consider why these three disciples—Saints Peter, James and John—were chosen by Jesus Christ to come up with Him to this “high mountain apart” from all His followers. Let’s consider also the response of St Peter as the spokesperson for the three disciples.




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Following For Real

Fr. Gregory Hallam gives the sermon on the first Sunday of Great Lent




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The Dream of the Rood

Fr. Gregory Hallam reads The Dream of the Rood, an old English poem for the Sunday of the Cross in Great Lent.




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Doing a Beautiful Thing for Christ

Fr. Gregory Hallam begins with the children and then Fr. Emmanuel Kahn speaks to the adults about Joseph of Arimathea.




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The Great Race

Today we celebrate all the saints, both those who have been declared saints by the Church and those whose holy lives are known to God alone. Fr. Emmanuel Kahn gives the sermon.




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Voices Unleashed

Fr. Gregory Hallam gives the sermon for Sunday June 24, 2018.




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The Word Is Very Near

We are each challenged to confess with words that “Christ is Lord” of our lives and believe in our hearts “that God has raised [Jesus Christ] from the dead.” How can we do that?




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The Banquet is Ready

Fr. Gregory Hallam - Sunday, December 16, 2018.




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Great Humility

Fr. Gregory Hallam gives the sermon for Theophany 2019.




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Please and Thank You

Fr. Gregory Hallam gives the sermon on Sunday, January 20, 2019.




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The Great Filter

Fr. Emmanuel Kahn talks about two people who came into the Temple. Only one of them is to be admired.




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The Great Exchange

Fr. Gregory Hallam preaches on Pascha Sunday 2019.




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The Peace of God Unconstrained

How could Jesus enter a room through a locked door and then show the disciples the wounds of the Crucifixion in His hands and His sides? Fr. Emmanuel Kahn explains how the Church Fathers interpret this Biblical passage.