ng Venerating the Cross of Christ By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-13T03:17:39+00:00 Fr. Deacon Emmanuel gives the homily on the third Sunday of Great Lent. Full Article
ng The Raising of Lazarus By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-13T03:30:52+00:00 Fr. Christopher speaks about the raising of Lazarus from the dead by Christ. Full Article
ng 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
ng Trampling Down Death By Death By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-13T04:52:36+00:00 Fr. Christopher delivers the homily on Great and Holy Pascha. Full Article
ng 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
ng 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
ng Believing, Doing and Telling By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-15T16:59:59+00:00 Fr. Gregory helps us understand the harmony of faith and works. Full Article
ng Experiencing the Transfiguration By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-15T17:04:04+00:00 Fr. Dn. Emmanuel gives the sermon about the Feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord. Full Article
ng Feeding the 5000 By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-15T17:10:15+00:00 This miracle of Christ feeding a large crowd on the shore of the Sea of Galilee occurs in all four gospels. So it is important, but what does it mean for us today? Fr. Dn. Emmanuel gives the sermon. Full Article
ng Subduing Our Fears By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-15T17:11:25+00:00 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. Full Article
ng Calling All Stations By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-15T17:24:26+00:00 For each of us, when we approach the things of God we need to be open to what God wants of us and we need to be taught by God, through His Church, through Holy Tradition and through the Scriptures, as we listen to what He wants us to know. Full Article
ng Standing Firm By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-15T17:27:05+00:00 Fr. Dn. Emmanuel Kahn asks "What does it mean to stand firm in our faith in Christ?" Full Article
ng Everything Matters By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-15T17:36:43+00:00 Fr. Christopher is the homilist and he reminds us that the Incarnation of Christ means that physical things are used by God to bless us. Full Article
ng On Being a Parent By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-16T02:50:49+00:00 Fr. Dn. Emmanuel reflects on the early childhood of Jesus and the role of his parents. Full Article
ng Rejoicing in Good By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-16T03:12:32+00:00 Fr. Gregory delivers the sermon of St. Cyril of Alexandria on the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Full Article
ng 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
ng Saving Alms By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-16T03:25:56+00:00 Our Lord Jesus Christ taught that the basic problems arising from money, possessions and wealth had their roots in the heart and its attachments. Full Article
ng Sayings of Church Fathers On Fasting By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-16T03:27:31+00:00 Fr. Gregory Hallam presents a small selection of the Holy Fathers on the discipline of fasting. Full Article
ng Finding Faith In The Living God By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-16T04:40:28+00:00 Deacon Emmanuel Kahn gives the sermon about how to know what God wants us to do today. Full Article
ng 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
ng The King of Love By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-16T04:48:18+00:00 Fr. Gregory Hallam gives the Palm Sunday sermon. Full Article
ng Hitting the Target By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-21T15:41:45+00:00 Fr. Gregory Hallam gives the sermon on the Sunday of All Saints. Full Article
ng Sorting Out the Mess By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-21T15:46:07+00:00 Fr. Gregory talks about St. Theodore but also goes "off script" to address the canonical anomalies of Orthodoxy related to having one bishop in one city. The attached transcript can be referenced for his thoughts on St. Theodore. Full Article
ng Saving Faith By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-22T15:25:55+00:00 Fr. Gregory Hallam says faith is not a matter of conjecture or idle speculation, but rather a dynamic and lived experience! Full Article
ng Getting Out of the Boat By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-22T15:38:30+00:00 Fr. Gregory Hallam says we need good spiritual counsel on how the sometimes restless, even frightening, waves of our soul in our innermost life might be calmed by Christ and our faith strengthened by His overcoming of our fears. Full Article
ng Taking Up Our Crosses By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-22T16:00:37+00:00 There is a phrase one hears; “It is a cross I have to bear”; which usually means something that causes pain or grief or some sort of problem. Fr. Christopher says that is not quite what Christ meant in today's Gospel. Full Article
ng 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
ng Rediscovering Santa Claus and Much More! By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-22T16:24:34+00:00 Fr. Gregory Hallam talks about the real St. Nick! Full Article
ng 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
ng Reach Out . . . for the Angelic Choir By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-23T02:57:06+00:00 Dn. Emmanuel speaks about St. Basil and the first of the year. Full Article
ng Renewing Our Baptism By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-23T02:59:11+00:00 Theophany is a good time to recall our baptism and to ask ourselves whether or not we are living to the full the life of a baptised Christian. Are we repenting of our sins; are we being filled with the Holy Spirit? Full Article
ng Life-Giving Water By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-23T03:01:00+00:00 We should all take away from the Feast of Theophany a renewed commitment not only to our own personal renewal in the Spirit but also through our own service of God and a share in the blooming of creation and the healing of the nations. Full Article
ng How Can We Find the Kingdom of Heaven in Our Lives? By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-23T03:04:19+00:00 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! Full Article
ng Forgiveness Changes Everything By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-23T03:20:59+00:00 Fr. Dn. Emmanuel Kahn gives the sermon on Forgiveness. Full Article
ng Responding in Love By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-23T03:51:04+00:00 Fr. Christopher says the Feast of the Annunciation marks the entrance of God, physically, into history, when He took upon Himself our human nature. Full Article
ng Facing the Darkness, Receiving the Light By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-23T03:56:32+00:00 Fr. Gregory speaks with children and adults about Palm Sunday and the preparation of our hearts to receive the risen Christ. Full Article
ng 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
ng Confessing the Faith By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-23T04:12:23+00:00 How many Christians in the comfortable West would, like St Paul and St Silas, having been thrown into jail for such an uncompromising witness, proceed to sing hymns of praise to God all night in the midst of such a challenging situation? Full Article
ng The Transformation of Suffering By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-23T05:08:00+00:00 Fr. Gregory introduces a guest preacher today who talks about the pattern of redemption: the Lord heals the soul and then the body. Full Article
ng Poisoned Wells and Living Water By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-23T05:18:44+00:00 Fr. Gregory says that Orthodox Christians, particularly in the West, should reacquaint themselves with what the Orthodox Church teaches about Christ and salvation. In few places is this more clearly and attractively presented than in the writings of early Greek theologian and martyr, St Irenaeus (130 – 202). Full Article
ng Piscine Bellies and Kingdom Nets By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-23T05:38:28+00:00 Are we slouched downcast in the belly of the fish or are we striding away from the shore with God’s net in our backpack? Fr. Gregory says the choice is always ours. Let us choose well. Full Article
ng Feeding on Christ the Living Word By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-11-13T21:11:31+00:00 Fr. Emmanuel asks how did Jesus Christ take five loaves of bread and two fish and feed 5,000 people? Full Article
ng Recognizing the Moment By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-11-13T21:11:48+00:00 Whether as individuals or as couples we too are each called in the words of Zacharias as set out in the Gospel of St. Luke to “prepare His ways”—that is, to prepare the way of Jesus Christ in our own lives and in the lives of others. Full Article
ng Believing Thomas By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-11-13T21:13:18+00:00 Fr. Dn. Emmanuel gives the sermon on St. Thomas Sunday. Full Article
ng Being Glorified By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-11-13T21:14:01+00:00 We can each live in the present moment with Christ in the presence of God the Father; and to the extent that we are able to link our lives to the life of Christ, we too will be glorified by God the Father. Full Article
ng Living the Angelic Life By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-11-16T04:56:16+00:00 Fr. Gregory Hallam reminds us that although angels are immaterial beings and have undoubted brilliance and glory, we humans are to be measured with no less dignity, particularly if we take up our own vocation to praise God, to be His obedient messengers and His valiant fighters. Full Article
ng Maintaining the Peace By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-11-28T18:02:11+00:00 Fr. Gregory preaches on how to “maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." Full Article
ng 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
ng Ghost Busting By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2016-03-20T02:18:40+00:00 St. Thomas must see to believe … he must have evidence. Jesus readily agrees to his request but then comments that there is blessedness in believing without the need for such evidence. Full Article
ng Heavenly King By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2016-08-26T01:27:48+00:00 Fr. Gregory welcomes visiting priest Fr. Raphael Barberg of St James the Apostle Antiochian Church, Westminster, Maryland to speak on Pentecost Sunday. Full Article