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Venerating the Cross of Christ

Fr. Deacon Emmanuel gives the homily on the third Sunday of Great Lent.




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The Raising of Lazarus

Fr. Christopher speaks about the raising of Lazarus from the dead by Christ.




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Welcoming Christ into Jerusalem

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




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Trampling Down Death By Death

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




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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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Believing, Doing and Telling

Fr. Gregory helps us understand the harmony of faith and works.




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Experiencing the Transfiguration

Fr. Dn. Emmanuel gives the sermon about the Feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord.




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Feeding the 5000

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.




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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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Calling All Stations

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.




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Standing Firm

Fr. Dn. Emmanuel Kahn asks "What does it mean to stand firm in our faith in Christ?"




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Everything Matters

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.




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On Being a Parent

Fr. Dn. Emmanuel reflects on the early childhood of Jesus and the role of his parents.




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Rejoicing in Good

Fr. Gregory delivers the sermon of St. Cyril of Alexandria on the Parable of the Prodigal Son.




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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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Saving Alms

Our Lord Jesus Christ taught that the basic problems arising from money, possessions and wealth had their roots in the heart and its attachments.




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Sayings of Church Fathers On Fasting

Fr. Gregory Hallam presents a small selection of the Holy Fathers on the discipline of fasting.




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Finding Faith In The Living God

Deacon Emmanuel Kahn gives the sermon about how to know what God wants us to do today.




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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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The King of Love

Fr. Gregory Hallam gives the Palm Sunday sermon.




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Hitting the Target

Fr. Gregory Hallam gives the sermon on the Sunday of All Saints.




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Sorting Out the Mess

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.




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Saving Faith

Fr. Gregory Hallam says faith is not a matter of conjecture or idle speculation, but rather a dynamic and lived experience!




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Getting Out of the Boat

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.




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Taking Up Our Crosses

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.




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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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Rediscovering Santa Claus and Much More!

Fr. Gregory Hallam talks about the real St. Nick!




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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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Reach Out . . . for the Angelic Choir

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




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Renewing Our Baptism

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?




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Life-Giving Water

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.




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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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Forgiveness Changes Everything

Fr. Dn. Emmanuel Kahn gives the sermon on Forgiveness.




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Responding in Love

Fr. Christopher says the Feast of the Annunciation marks the entrance of God, physically, into history, when He took upon Himself our human nature.




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Facing the Darkness, Receiving the Light

Fr. Gregory speaks with children and adults about Palm Sunday and the preparation of our hearts to receive the risen Christ.




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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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Confessing the Faith

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?




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The Transformation of Suffering

Fr. Gregory introduces a guest preacher today who talks about the pattern of redemption: the Lord heals the soul and then the body.




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Poisoned Wells and Living Water

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).




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Piscine Bellies and Kingdom Nets

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.




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Feeding on Christ the Living Word

Fr. Emmanuel asks how did Jesus Christ take five loaves of bread and two fish and feed 5,000 people?




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Recognizing the Moment

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.




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Believing Thomas

Fr. Dn. Emmanuel gives the sermon on St. Thomas Sunday.




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Being Glorified

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.




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Living the Angelic Life

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.




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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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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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Ghost Busting

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.




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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.