en King David Repents By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-13T03:10:30+00:00 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. Full Article
en 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
en The Repentance of the Righteous Job By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-13T03:14:59+00:00 The story of righteous Job is an amazingly insightful account of repentance offered by a man who, ostensibly, had no need of repentance. Full Article
en 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
en 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
en Radical Repentance By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-13T03:26:47+00:00 Fr. Christopher takes a lesson from the life of St. Mary of Egypt on what it means to repent. Full Article
en Open Questions By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-13T04:54:37+00:00 Find Christ where creation sings, where love reigns and where death is no more. Full Article
en Augustine and Friends By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-13T04:58:04+00:00 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. Full Article
en 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
en 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
en 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
en When Faces Light Up By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-15T17:29:19+00:00 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. Full Article
en Christmas Nonsense and Christmas Truth By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-16T02:44:56+00:00 Fr. Christopher sets the record straight on the celebration of Christmas. Full Article
en Massacre of the Innocents By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-16T02:48:38+00:00 Fr. Gregory Hallam gives the sermon on the Holy Innocents and God's ultimate purpose. Full Article
en 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
en The Judgement of Love By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-16T03:14:42+00:00 Fr Gregory preaches on Meatfare Sunday at their new mission in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland on Sunday the 23rd of February. Full Article
en 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
en When the Dragon Slew St. George By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-16T04:53:16+00:00 Fr. Gregory Hallam gives the sermon on the feast day of St. George. Full Article
en Sermon on the Ascension by St. Augustine of Hippo By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-21T15:35:18+00:00 Fr. Gregory Hallam draws on St. Augustine for his sermon on the Ascension. Full Article
en The Marriage of Heaven and Earth By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-22T15:36:19+00:00 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. Full Article
en Wisdom Let Us Attend By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-22T16:07:14+00:00 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. Full Article
en 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
en 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
en 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
en 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
en 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
en Is He Risen Indeed? By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-23T04:04:08+00:00 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. Full Article
en Wooden Chalices, Golden Bishops By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-10-23T05:28:11+00:00 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. Full Article
en 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
en When We Open Our Christmas Presents By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2015-11-13T21:14:21+00:00 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. Full Article
en 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
en Enrolled in Christ By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2016-01-31T02:06:07+00:00 On this eve of Nativity 2015, Fr. Emmanuel Kahn gives the sermon. Full Article
en 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
en Ascension Dialog By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2016-08-26T01:26:37+00:00 Fr. Gregory and Fr. Emmanuel team up today to discuss the significance of the Ascension. Full Article
en 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
en The Golden Example By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2017-12-21T17:18:15+00:00 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. Full Article
en Energising Grace By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2017-12-21T18:08:02+00:00 Fr. Emmanuel Kahn gives the homily for the Feast of St. Nicholas. Full Article
en Gifted and Talented By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-13T19:56:37+00:00 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. Full Article
en Grace and Peace in the Risen Lord By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-13T20:03:14+00:00 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. Full Article
en Veneration of the Cross By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-13T20:03:28+00:00 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. Full Article
en Forgiven, Now Forgiving By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-13T20:36:18+00:00 Fr. Emmanuel Kahn and Fr. Gregory Hallam speak to both the adults and children about the importance of forgiveness. Full Article
en Encountering an Angel By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-13T20:36:27+00:00 Fr. Emmanuel Kahn gives the sermon on the Feast of the Annunciation Full Article
en Ascension Day By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-14T22:25:53+00:00 Fr. Emmanuel Kahn gives the sermon on the Feast of Ascension. Full Article
en Crowded in Heaven By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-15T05:04:26+00:00 Fr. Gregory speaks about the Dormition of the Theotokos and calls it the most important feast of the Mother of God in our calendar. Full Article
en Repent! By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-24T05:22:28+00:00 Christianity without repentance is hypocritical, a mockery, even dangerous. Full Article
en From Earth to Heaven By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-29T20:39:53+00:00 Fr. Emmanuel Kahn gives the sermon for the Feast of the Ascension. Full Article
en To Be Ascended By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-29T21:49:05+00:00 What does it mean to be “ascended”? We need to know because as surely as Christ ascended, so shall we in Him also ascend. Full Article
en Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-29T21:49:21+00:00 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. Full Article
en Patient Until the Harvest By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-30T03:52:58+00:00 How can I be more of a part of the work of Christ and His Church here on earth? Full Article
en Loosening the Bonds of Pride By www.ancientfaith.com Published On :: 2019-03-31T02:09:34+00:00 We love and respect God first. Then we love and respect ourselves because we are each made in the image of God. Full Article