Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

12/25/2015

The Holy Spirit Was Upon Simeon

Sermon on the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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The Holy Spirit Was Upon Simeon

Sermon on the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

We read that the Holy Spirit was on him, meaning he could recognize with the help of the Holy Spirit Who was on him the Virgin, who had given birth. A very interesting detail: the Holy Spirit was on him, since he was an Old Testament man.

Our True State

Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost. The Gospel of the rich young man

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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Our True State

Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost. The Gospel of the rich young man

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

God’s Law is like a mirror that shows us our true state. And that young man who claimed to have fulfilled everything was living in a fantasy, a kind of proud and arrogant delusion.

Dehumanization or Deification?

A World Demonically Possessed with Militarism Is In Need of Healing

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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Dehumanization or Deification?

A World Demonically Possessed with Militarism Is In Need of Healing

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

We see that God is against dehumanizing our opponent. We must remember that any person whom we can potentially kill is God’s creation.

Quarantine: A Scriptural View

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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Quarantine: A Scriptural View

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

We should react to everything that is happening from the point of view of Holy Scripture. The Bible is the Lord’s instruction guide. What do we see in Holy Scripture having to do with such situations?

Adventures During the Chechen War

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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Adventures During the Chechen War

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Then I remembered the text from the Bible where it says that the bread cast upon the waters always returns. In other words, a good deed done selflessly always returns to you…

Christ, the Firstborn from the Dead

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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Christ, the Firstborn from the Dead

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

The devil inspires you with the thought: “You’re a sinner! No one will ever forgive you your sins!” You have to say: “Yes, I have sinned, but Christ died for my sins. Christ also rose again for my justification!” This is the meaning of the Christian Passover! It’s the miracle of God’s forgiveness!

The Mysteries of Christ’s Geneology

The meaning of names in the Bible

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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The Mysteries of Christ’s Geneology

The meaning of names in the Bible

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

All biblical names speak, and were most often given to people from a certain prophetic inspiration. No translation is capable of fully revealing the beauty of the whole spectrum of biblical names and images.

The Baptism of the Lord As a Call to Renew Our Baptismal Vows

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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Rating: 10|Votes: 2

The Baptism of the Lord As a Call to Renew Our Baptismal Vows

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

What event reminds us of the Baptism of Christ? Why does the Nicea-Constantinople Creed mention only one sacrament—that of Baptism? Why is the feast of Baptism also called the Theophany? And how should fulfil our baptismal promises?

The Most Childlike Feast

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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Rating: 9.8|Votes: 10

The Most Childlike Feast

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

The feast of the Entrance of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple is known as the most childlike feast. Archpriest Oleg Stenyaev speaks on why this is so, and of what it reminds us adults.

Pontius Pilate’s Wife

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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Rating: 6|Votes: 28

Pontius Pilate’s Wife

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

November 9 is the feast-day of Claudia Procula, Pontius Pilate’s wife. She was recognized as a holy martyr by the Greek Orthodox, the Coptic and the Ethiopian Churches. The episode connected with her is perhaps among the most mysterious.

The Aerial Tollhouses. The First: Idle Talk

The Way of All Flesh. Conversation 3

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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Rating: 3.9|Votes: 21

The Aerial Tollhouses. The First: Idle Talk

The Way of All Flesh. Conversation 3

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Archpriest Oleg Stenyaev talks about the first of the tollhouses that the soul goes through after death; about how the words and speech of the Orthodox Christian should be, and; what sins bound up with words should we avoid.

Why did some holy fathers believe in apocatastasis and other false ideas about life after death?

The Way of All Flesh: Conversation 2, Part 6

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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Rating: 5.4|Votes: 9

Why did some holy fathers believe in apocatastasis and other false ideas about life after death?

The Way of All Flesh: Conversation 2, Part 6

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Let’s try to understand why certain fathers of the Church, such as St. Gregory of Nyssa, preached this heresy and why they were not pronounced heretics themselves.

How angels help us pass through the tollhouses. Examples from the Lives of the Saints

The Way of All Flesh: Conversation 2, Part 5

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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Rating: 6.5|Votes: 8

How angels help us pass through the tollhouses. Examples from the Lives of the Saints

The Way of All Flesh: Conversation 2, Part 5

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Without a doubt, the angels watch after the paths of each of us, are not removed from our problems, and experience great joy if we step upon the path of repentance and correction.

Patristic Testimony on the Tollhouses: the Western Fathers

The Way of All Flesh: Conversation 2, Part 3

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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Rating: 5.6|Votes: 15

Patristic Testimony on the Tollhouses: the Western Fathers

The Way of All Flesh: Conversation 2, Part 3

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

So that we would not form the impression that the teaching on the aerial tollhouses was only known to the Eastern Fathers of the Church, we will turn to testimony from the book by Fr. Seraphim (Rose), where he show that he was familiar with themany different Orthodox Western sources, which were never translated into Greek or Russian and which abound with descriptions of the tollhouses.

Patristic Testimony on the Tollhouses: the Eastern Fathers

Conversation 2, Part 2

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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Rating: 4.3|Votes: 8

Patristic Testimony on the Tollhouses: the Eastern Fathers

Conversation 2, Part 2

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Those who have parted their bodies do not rise so easily to the heavens as the neo-Protestants and our own renovationists would have it. There is a good deal of testimony in the holy fathers about the aerial tollhouses.

The Way of All Flesh: The Bible on the Aerial Tollhouses

Conversation 2, Part 1

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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Rating: 3.9|Votes: 38

The Way of All Flesh: The Bible on the Aerial Tollhouses

Conversation 2, Part 1

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Where in the Bible do they talk about aerial tollhouses—those obstacles that the forces of darkness put in the way of souls rising after death to heaven through the space under heaven? Why do the demons wait for a soul in the under-heavens? How should we view the fact that there are differences between patristic works and the lives of the saints in explanations of the tollhouses? How can we answer critics of the teaching on the tollhouses?

The Way of All Flesh—What happens to the soul after death

Part 1

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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Rating: 6.6|Votes: 33

The Way of All Flesh—What happens to the soul after death

Part 1

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Why is earthly life is so valuable to us? What does a soul experience as it separates from the body? What are the aerial tollhouses? What is life, and what is death in the Orthodox understanding? These are the topics of a series of talks with Archpriest Oleg Stenyaev, which we will be translating for our English language readers.

On the Cult of Health, and Bodily Illness

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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Rating: 10|Votes: 11

On the Cult of Health, and Bodily Illness

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

How are the soul and body connected? Do we need to be concerned about physical health? Why is care for physical health senseless without care for the soul? What danger is there in the cult of health? Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev answers these questions.

Of What Spirit Are We?

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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Rating: 4|Votes: 2

Of What Spirit Are We?

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Of what spirit are we? What does the Savior call us to do? And how should a government act in this world? Is force justified? Archpriest Oleg Stenyaev talks about this subject.

On Fasting Again

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

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Rating: 9.5|Votes: 17

On Fasting Again

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

To those on the new style calendar who are celebrating the Nativity of Christ, we wish all a joyous feast. Please keep this delightful article on fasting in mind for Wednesdays and Fridays, and the other three extended fast periods. But for those who are still observing the Nativity fast, may these instructions encourage you during this final stretch.

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