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St. John Chrysostom

St. John Chrysostom. Mosaic, Monastery Hosios Loukas, Greece

Christ’s Church has not forgotten the spiritual ascetic labors of St. John Chrysostom. Almost every day in churches is celebrated the Liturgy that he composed; we hear his words every Paschal night—the call to enter into the joy of Christ’s resurrection. Over a thousand of his pastoral teachings and letters, his exegesis of the Holy Scripture, and his ascetic life have served for many centuries for the spiritual growth and salvation of the Church’s sons and daughters.

2/8/2023

Sermon of the Feast Day of St. John Chrysostom

Archbishop Pitirim of Volokolamsk

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Rating: 3.8|Votes: 4

Sermon of the Feast Day of St. John Chrysostom

Archbishop Pitirim of Volokolamsk

Before his death, the saint thanked God for everything he had to experience. Why didn’t sickness and depravations break him, cast him into despondency, or incite him to complain?

The Life of Saint John Chrysostom

Commemorated November 13/26

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Rating: 4.9|Votes: 45

The Life of Saint John Chrysostom

Commemorated November 13/26

The treasure of treatises and letters which St. John left behind, included the moving sermon that is heard at Easter Sunday services. The loss of his sermons which were not set down on paper is incalculable. Nevertheless, the immense store of his excellent literature reveals his insight, straightforwardness, and rhetorical splendour, and commands a position of the greatest respect and influence in Christian thought, rivaling that of other Fathers of the Church. His liturgy, which we respectfully chant on Sundays, is a living testimony of his greatness.

Translation of the Relics of St. John Chrysostom

Commemorated January 27/February 9

St. Dimitry of Rostov

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Rating: 6.8|Votes: 13

Translation of the Relics of St. John Chrysostom

Commemorated January 27/February 9

St. Dimitry of Rostov

Many were John Chrysostom's struggles on earth, many are his crowns in heaven. He now cries out with the Apostle Paul, 'I am a sweet savour of Christ, having cleansed the whole world of the stench of error.

Saint John Chrysostom for the 21st Century

Fr. Josiah Trenham

Rating: 5.5|Votes: 11

Saint John Chrysostom for the 21st Century

Fr. Josiah Trenham

The Supreme Importance of Churchmanship in an Age of Radical Individualism. Saint John taught that the κοινωνοία of the Church is a profound miracle. Whence is the origin of the Church? From where did our sacred community arise, brothers and sisters? It has no mere human foundation. The apostles did not simply gather together and come up with the idea of this organization, with certain goals, members, and dues. Not at all. The Church is the continuation of the miracle of the Nativity of Christ.

St. John Chrysostom and the Light of Tabor

Dr. Christopher Veniamin

Rating: 8.4|Votes: 5

St. John Chrysostom and the Light of Tabor

Dr. Christopher Veniamin

A study of his sermon reveals the saint understood the light of Transfiguration as a manifestation of divinity—consistent with Orthodox theology as later more fully elucidated.

On the Knowability of God in the Cappadocians and St. John Chrysostom

Rating: 4|Votes: 7

On the Knowability of God in the Cappadocians and St. John Chrysostom

But the uniqueness of the Orthodox Church is precisely that it alone among the Christian confessions refuses to reduce the perfection of Christ, and what it means to be perfect in Christ. The martyric spirit of the martyrs themselves and the monastics after them is not driven and sustained by a wise teacher, but rather by the God Who is Life and Who offers that Life to us through His salvific economy in His Church.

Some Trends of Modern Childraising

From a talk on St. John Chrysostom

Irina Medvedeva

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Some Trends of Modern Childraising

From a talk on St. John Chrysostom

Irina Medvedeva

Note that the great teacher of the Church was not afraid to give the issue of poor upbringing universal scope.

St. John Chrysostom, the Archbishop of Constantinople

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St. John Chrysostom, the Archbishop of Constantinople

His reflections about the system of human relations based on Christian faith, Christian family, the upbringing of children, prayer at home and in a community of believers, about Christian mutual support and works of mercy have become classics of Christian literature.

“Turn Your Home Into Heaven”

On one of St. John Chrysostom’s maxims

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Rating: 9.6|Votes: 49

“Turn Your Home Into Heaven”

On one of St. John Chrysostom’s maxims

That’s the task. To arrange your family life so that it is just like the life of heaven, to make your apartment be like the paradise.

St. John Chrysostom and His Liturgy

A sermon on the feast-day of the Holy Hierarch John Chrysostom

Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)

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Rating: 9.7|Votes: 7

St. John Chrysostom and His Liturgy

A sermon on the feast-day of the Holy Hierarch John Chrysostom

Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)

This man left a great many writings after him and indeed very few ascetics can rival him in this. Yet perhaps his principal work is something that all of us participate in and that plays an important role in our salvation—that is, the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.

The Testament of St. John Chrysostom's Life

Hieromartyr John Vostorgov

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Rating: 10|Votes: 13

The Testament of St. John Chrysostom's Life

Hieromartyr John Vostorgov

Great was his guilelessness and forgiveness of enemies, great was his patience in exile, where he endured the guards’ coarse treatment, heat and cold, hunger and thirst. His repose was touching.

St. John Chrysostom—a Man Who Heard the Heartbeat of the Church

Priest Vasily Kutsenko

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Rating: 3|Votes: 3

St. John Chrysostom—a Man Who Heard the Heartbeat of the Church

Priest Vasily Kutsenko

“In the Liturgy we hear the heartbeat of the Church.” As man cannot live without his heart, so the Church cannot be imagined without the Liturgy, because it is not without Christ. Believers commune of the Holy Body and Blood precisely during the Divine Liturgy, and the Church manifests itself in them, in the Holy Gifts. The Liturgy is the revelation of the Kingdom of God.