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King David Repents

Fr. Deacon Emmanuel is the preacher at the Liturgy of the Pre-Sanctified Gifts - Repentance Series for Great Lent. March 27 also marks the celebration of Deacon Emmanuel's 75th birthday - May God grant him many years.




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To Be Enlightened

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




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The Repentance of the Righteous Job

The story of righteous Job is an amazingly insightful account of repentance offered by a man who, ostensibly, had no need of repentance.




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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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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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Radical Repentance

Fr. Christopher takes a lesson from the life of St. Mary of Egypt on what it means to repent.




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Open Questions

Find Christ where creation sings, where love reigns and where death is no more.




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Augustine and Friends

Over the next two Sundays Fr. Gregory speaks about the acts of two particular Apostles or Enlighteners of England, so that we may have a clearer and deeper appreciation of the enduring characteristics of Orthodox Christian mission for our own day. Two Orthodox saints have been chosen: this week, St. Augustine of Canterbury; and next week, St. Theodore of Canterbury. Both have much to teach us.




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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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Experiencing the Transfiguration

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




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When Faces Light Up

When we look upon the face of Jesus, Light responds to Light. We are enlightened, therefore we see and what we see is the same glorious Light which is Christ.




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Christmas Nonsense and Christmas Truth

Fr. Christopher sets the record straight on the celebration of Christmas.




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Massacre of the Innocents

Fr. Gregory Hallam gives the sermon on the Holy Innocents and God's ultimate purpose.




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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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The Judgement of Love

Fr Gregory preaches on Meatfare Sunday at their new mission in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland on Sunday the 23rd of February.




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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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When the Dragon Slew St. George

Fr. Gregory Hallam gives the sermon on the feast day of St. George.




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Sermon on the Ascension by St. Augustine of Hippo

Fr. Gregory Hallam draws on St. Augustine for his sermon on the Ascension.




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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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Wisdom Let Us Attend

The parable of the sower shows us how; we must yield to the Sower, which is the Father. No one ever grew spiritually for salvation without such yielding to the Father’s hand.




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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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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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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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Is He Risen Indeed?

Fr. Christopher asks, when it comes to the resurrection of Jesus, is Church Tradition honest? Could the whole story have been made up? Surely anything less than honesty in the Church is not acceptable.




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Wooden Chalices, Golden Bishops

A Bishop is called not to be a successful manager, a smooth operator, a charming person, an efficient administrator, nor even an amazing preacher. Some of these things are good and necessary but without humility they can never be enlisted in the service of love and the God who is love.




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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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When We Open Our Christmas Presents

Dn. Emmanuel tells us whether you are at school or at home, working or unemployed, whether you have responsibilities at home or outside home, whatever your age, there is a special Christmas present waiting for each of us, wrapped up, ready to open, but each present can only be opened by the person to whom that present has been addressed.




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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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Enrolled in Christ

On this eve of Nativity 2015, Fr. Emmanuel Kahn gives the sermon.




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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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Ascension Dialog

Fr. Gregory and Fr. Emmanuel team up today to discuss the significance of the Ascension.




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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 Golden Example

Fr. Gregory Hallam begins with the children then Fr. Emmanuel Kahn gives the sermon and says St. John Chrysostom reminds us that if we wish to sit with Christ in heaven after we die, we need to prepare ourselves by first walking with Him on earth.




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Energising Grace

Fr. Emmanuel Kahn gives the homily for the Feast of St. Nicholas.




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Gifted and Talented

Fr. Gregory says that each one of us has a gift and talent from God no matter how modest we might think it may be.




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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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Veneration of the Cross

Today on this third Sunday in Lent, we venerate the cross of Christ—that is, we show profound respect and awe for what Jesus Christ achieved in the Crucifixion, as well as how the Crucifixion led to the Resurrection.




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Forgiven, Now Forgiving

Fr. Emmanuel Kahn and Fr. Gregory Hallam speak to both the adults and children about the importance of forgiveness.




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Encountering an Angel

Fr. Emmanuel Kahn gives the sermon on the Feast of the Annunciation




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Ascension Day

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




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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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Repent!

Christianity without repentance is hypocritical, a mockery, even dangerous.




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From Earth to Heaven

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




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To Be Ascended

What does it mean to be “ascended”? We need to know because as surely as Christ ascended, so shall we in Him also ascend.




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Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?

Today in our cycle of veneration of Orthodox Christian Saints we remember and celebrate those of the Orthodox Church of the British Isles and Ireland in the first millennium.




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Patient Until the Harvest

How can I be more of a part of the work of Christ and His Church here on earth?




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Loosening the Bonds of Pride

We love and respect God first. Then we love and respect ourselves because we are each made in the image of God.