The Moral Path of Being

Fr. Stephen Freeman

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

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The Moral Path of Being

Fr. Stephen Freeman

If Christian morality is not a legal or forensic matter, how are we to think about moral behavior? Does the word have no use for Orthodox Christians? What do we think about when we confess our sins?

Spiritual Counsels From Elder Paisius Olaru of Sihla Skete

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

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Spiritual Counsels From Elder Paisius Olaru of Sihla Skete

When someone shames you, say that God commanded him to do it. When someone takes something of yours, God commanded him to take it, in order to make you a monk. When you are removed from a higher place, God changed your place so that you would change from your passions and bad habits.

Sermon on the Day of the Russian New-Martyrs

Fr. Sergei Sveshnikov

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Sermon on the Day of the Russian New-Martyrs

Fr. Sergei Sveshnikov

The next time it seems to us that the cross that we are given is greater than we can bear, when not only the attainment of Christian virtues, but even the usual attendance at services and following the Church-established fasts seems unbearable, let us turn with fervent prayer for help to the Lord and to the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, who did not give only a day or an hour, but their whole lives to Christ.

The Prodigal Son

A Homily on Luke 15:11-32

r. Dimitri Tsakas

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

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The Prodigal Son

A Homily on Luke 15:11-32

r. Dimitri Tsakas

Humility, repentance and then coming face to face with God. This is the journey that the Church takes us on before Lent. But today Jesus teaches us with symbols, People have got a problem with symbols in Christianity.

We Can All be Considered Prodigal Sons

Fr. Vasile Tudora

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

We Can All be Considered Prodigal Sons

Fr. Vasile Tudora

I am sure many of us have felt that moment of change. For some it is the moment of conversion from a different religious background to Orthodoxy. For the Orthodox it is the moment when they actually realize what they were missing and then return to their roots. It is a powerful moment; it is a life changing moment.