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How to be Fully Human

Fr. Tom discusses the uncleanliness of humanity, the image God made us in, and maintaining our true selves.




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An Invitation to Transformation (Dn John Skowron)

Join Deacon John Skowron in today's discussion. What are we withholding from God's will? Are we making time for Christ in our lives?




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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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Give to Receive

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




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The Icon of the Theotokos of the Sign

Subdeacon Immanuel speaks about the new fresco Icon of the Theotokos of the Sign written by Efrem Carrasco on the wall behind the altar at St Aidan’s Antiochian Orthodox Church in Levenshulme, Manchester.




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Attending to the Samaritan

Fr. Gregory gives a sermon on the parable of the Good Samaritan.




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One to Come

Fr. Dn. Christopher gives the sermon on the eve of Nativity.




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The Great Restoration

The Nativity is a present reality for us Orthodox Christians. It’s not just that we celebrate a past event now; there’s more to it than that. Christ is eternally born for all generations in the same way that he is both referred to in the Scriptures as “slain from the foundation of the world” (Revelation 13:8] and also eternally risen and alive in the Cosmos.




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Responding to the Light

A sermon on the Feast of the Entry of Christ into the Temple.




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O, To Be a Publican

Fr. Gregory gives a sermon on the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee.




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Drawing Close to Christ

We each would like to be close to Our Lord Jesus Christ, but when we see many others gathered around Him we are not sure how to place ourselves in a situation in which we, just like the sick man, can be close to Jesus Christ.




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Total Recall

The entry to Jerusalem was a liturgical act; it was the entry into the great holy city of Israel by her rightful King and welcomed by the people as the fulfilling of national hope. Yet it is also proved to be a great disappointment.




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What To Do With Power

In his sermon on Pentecost, Fr. Gregory says we have the promise of Christ that if we pray and wait on the power of God, the Holy Spirit will descend upon us.




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The Dormition of the Theotokos

Fr. Gregory's homily on the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos.




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The Birth of the Theotokos

Fr. Dn. Christopher preaches on the Nativity of the Theotokos.




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Giving to Live

Church teaching is that every human being is loved by God, is unique and a special person. We are called to love each other as Christ loves us.




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Come into the Light

Anything that separates us from God is bad no matter how big or small it is in our eyes. The most difficult sins to uproot are those we keep covered up in darkness because we are reluctant, for whatever reason, to expose them to the Light, which is Christ.




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Being Invited to the Kingdom Banquet

Father Deacon Emmanuel gives the homily on the banquet story in Luke 14.




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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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To Be Enlightened

Fr. Gregory's sermon on the 2nd Sunday of Great Lent.




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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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Welcoming Christ into Jerusalem

Dr. Dn. Emmanuel Kahn gives the Palm Sunday homily.




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To Be Ascended

Fr. Gregory reminds us that Ascension is no less than the life of the Kingdom of God, breaking through into this corrupt world order and remaking it from within.




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Listening to the Holy Spirit

Fr. Dn. Emmanuel is the homilist on the feast of Pentecost.




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Seeking a Relationship to Christ

Fr. Dn. Emmanuel says we can ask Christ to intervene in our lives because of our faults and because of problems that we are not able to solve with our own wills and our own resources.




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Glory to God in the Highest

Fr. Deacon Emmanuel says we are not celebrating the birth of baby Jesus. We are celebrating the birth of Christ—the birth of “the Anointed One,” the Messiah.




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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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On Fasting - St. John Chrysostom

Fr. Gregory gives the sermon on Cheesefare Sunday as we enter into Great Lent.




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How to Endure Lent and Beyond

Fr. Deacon Emmanuel Kahn gives the sermon at the first Pre-Sanctified Liturgy of Great Lent.




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Time To Study

Fr. Deacon Emmanuel Kahn says that throughout the world today, in the midst of the contemporary emphasis upon being entertained, to seek the presence of God is an unusual goal but one, nevertheless, that we must pursue.




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Dying to Live

Fr. Dn. Emmanuel gives the Holy Thursday sermon from the 6th Chapter of Romans.




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From Sleep To Glory

Fr. Christopher gives the sermon on the Dormition of the Theotokos.




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The Theotokos - The Ever Virgin Mary

People who are not Orthodox are surprised when they are told that we only have two doctrines concerning the Blessed Mary in spite of the prominence she is given in our worship.




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The Theotokos and Us: Finding the Presence of Christ Together

Deacon Emmanuel gives the sermon on the Feast of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple.




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Honouring the Image, Restoring the Likeness

Fr. Gregory gives extracts from St Gregory of Nyssa's orations on the feast of the Nativity of Christ. He intersperses these reflections from contemporary life as the context in which both the promises and the challenges of the gospel are to be worked out by each one of us.




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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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Victory and New Life

Fr. Christopher delivers the Paschal homily.




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Getting to the Point

Fr. Christopher gives the homily about the Samaritan Woman and the example of Christ in relating to people according to their needs and situations.




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Too Many Worries

Fr. Gregory shares a word from Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain and his explanation of Matthew 6:22-23.




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Into the Light

St Seraphim of Sarov, the translation of whose relics we celebrate today, remains one of the outstanding examples of Christian holiness




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Listening to Our Ancestors

This Sunday, December 13, is the Sunday of the Forefathers. This is the day on which in all Orthodox churches throughout the world that we honour those men and women in the Old Testament who prepared the way for Christ and for us, because of their search for God. The preacher is Fr. Emmanuel Kahn.




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Entombed, Enlivened, Embedded

Fr. Gregory Hallam says that Theophany is a good time to look afresh at our own baptism and what this means for all Orthodox Christians.




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From One to the Three to the Many

Fr. Gregory Hallam says the Feast of the Transfiguration is without doubt a turning point in the gospels.




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Coming to God with Empty Hands

Fr. Gregory Hallam gives the homily on Sunday, February 5, 2017.




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By, For, and To: The Prepositions of Salvation

We are not saved by good works. We are saved by grace for good works. We do good works not only for Christ but also to Christ. Such are the prepositions of salvation: "by", "for" and "to."




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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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Down to Earth

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




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Topsy Turvy

Fr. Gregory reminds us that the kingdom of God is not something to be built by human design and human powers.




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Let Us Draw God Toward Us

Fr. Emmanuel gives the Palm Sunday sermon reminding us that the Lord is at hand.