to How to be Fully Human By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2022-12-14T19:57:00+00:00 Fr. Tom discusses the uncleanliness of humanity, the image God made us in, and maintaining our true selves. Full Article
to An Invitation to Transformation (Dn John Skowron) By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2022-12-22T16:52:58+00:00 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? Full Article
to Grief Gives Way To Joy By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-06T05:03:51+00:00 The Holy Myrrh Bearing Women were the first to proclaim the risen Christ to their incredulous male counterparts. Full Article
to From Paralysis to Action By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-06T05:05:36+00:00 Dn. Christopher is the guest homilist for the Sunday of the Paralytic. Full Article
to Give to Receive By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-06T05:26:53+00:00 Deacon Christopher is the speaker today and talks about God doing great things with scarce resources. Full Article
to The Icon of the Theotokos of the Sign By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-07T02:26:56+00:00 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. Full Article
to Attending to the Samaritan By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-07T03:24:27+00:00 Fr. Gregory gives a sermon on the parable of the Good Samaritan. Full Article
to One to Come By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-07T03:31:44+00:00 Fr. Dn. Christopher gives the sermon on the eve of Nativity. Full Article
to The Great Restoration By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-07T03:33:11+00:00 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. Full Article
to Responding to the Light By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-07T05:11:16+00:00 A sermon on the Feast of the Entry of Christ into the Temple. Full Article
to O, To Be a Publican By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-07T05:12:34+00:00 Fr. Gregory gives a sermon on the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee. Full Article
to Drawing Close to Christ By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-07T05:29:24+00:00 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. Full Article
to Total Recall By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-12T01:59:09+00:00 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. Full Article
to What To Do With Power By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-12T02:23:59+00:00 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. Full Article
to The Dormition of the Theotokos By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-12T04:43:57+00:00 Fr. Gregory's homily on the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos. Full Article
to The Birth of the Theotokos By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-12T04:57:17+00:00 Fr. Dn. Christopher preaches on the Nativity of the Theotokos. Full Article
to Giving to Live By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-12T04:59:34+00:00 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. Full Article
to Come into the Light By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-13T02:24:53+00:00 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. Full Article
to Being Invited to the Kingdom Banquet By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-13T02:29:43+00:00 Father Deacon Emmanuel gives the homily on the banquet story in Luke 14. Full Article
to Salvation is Nearer to Us Now than when We First Believed By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-13T03:00:35+00:00 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. Full Article
to To Be Enlightened By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-13T03:13:04+00:00 Fr. Gregory's sermon on the 2nd Sunday of Great Lent. Full Article
to Stairway to Heaven By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-13T03:22:20+00:00 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. Full Article
to Welcoming Christ into Jerusalem By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-13T04:40:30+00:00 Dr. Dn. Emmanuel Kahn gives the Palm Sunday homily. Full Article
to To Be Ascended By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-13T05:07:35+00:00 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. Full Article
to Listening to the Holy Spirit By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-13T05:09:46+00:00 Fr. Dn. Emmanuel is the homilist on the feast of Pentecost. Full Article
to Seeking a Relationship to Christ By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-13T05:18:51+00:00 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. Full Article
to Glory to God in the Highest By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-16T02:46:41+00:00 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. Full Article
to Heart to Heart By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-16T03:10:55+00:00 Fr. Gregory preaches about the Publican and the Pharisee as we prepare for the season of Great Lent. Full Article
to On Fasting - St. John Chrysostom By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-16T03:16:41+00:00 Fr. Gregory gives the sermon on Cheesefare Sunday as we enter into Great Lent. Full Article
to How to Endure Lent and Beyond By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-16T03:22:26+00:00 Fr. Deacon Emmanuel Kahn gives the sermon at the first Pre-Sanctified Liturgy of Great Lent. Full Article
to Time To Study By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-16T04:34:01+00:00 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. Full Article
to Dying to Live By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-16T04:48:03+00:00 Fr. Dn. Emmanuel gives the Holy Thursday sermon from the 6th Chapter of Romans. Full Article
to From Sleep To Glory By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-22T15:40:31+00:00 Fr. Christopher gives the sermon on the Dormition of the Theotokos. Full Article
to The Theotokos - The Ever Virgin Mary By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-22T16:02:52+00:00 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. Full Article
to The Theotokos and Us: Finding the Presence of Christ Together By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-22T16:17:24+00:00 Deacon Emmanuel gives the sermon on the Feast of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple. Full Article
to Honouring the Image, Restoring the Likeness By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-22T16:34:17+00:00 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. Full Article
to Get Ready to Grow Up By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-23T03:11:10+00:00 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." Full Article
to Victory and New Life By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-23T04:00:50+00:00 Fr. Christopher delivers the Paschal homily. Full Article
to Getting to the Point By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-23T04:11:03+00:00 Fr. Christopher gives the homily about the Samaritan Woman and the example of Christ in relating to people according to their needs and situations. Full Article
to Too Many Worries By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-23T05:03:23+00:00 Fr. Gregory shares a word from Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain and his explanation of Matthew 6:22-23. Full Article
to Into the Light By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-23T05:09:16+00:00 St Seraphim of Sarov, the translation of whose relics we celebrate today, remains one of the outstanding examples of Christian holiness Full Article
to Listening to Our Ancestors By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2016-01-31T02:01:18+00:00 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. Full Article
to Entombed, Enlivened, Embedded By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2016-02-01T01:18:23+00:00 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. Full Article
to From One to the Three to the Many By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2016-08-24T19:54:49+00:00 Fr. Gregory Hallam says the Feast of the Transfiguration is without doubt a turning point in the gospels. Full Article
to Coming to God with Empty Hands By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2017-03-02T04:13:45+00:00 Fr. Gregory Hallam gives the homily on Sunday, February 5, 2017. Full Article
to By, For, and To: The Prepositions of Salvation By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2017-03-02T04:17:19+00:00 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." Full Article
to From Crumbs to Bread By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-13T19:44:19+00:00 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. Full Article
to Down to Earth By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-13T20:04:19+00:00 Fr. Gregory talks about humility as a lesson in the parable of the Publican and the Pharisee. Full Article
to Topsy Turvy By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-13T20:50:16+00:00 Fr. Gregory reminds us that the kingdom of God is not something to be built by human design and human powers. Full Article
to Let Us Draw God Toward Us By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-13T20:50:25+00:00 Fr. Emmanuel gives the Palm Sunday sermon reminding us that the Lord is at hand. Full Article