Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost: the Miraculous Catch of Fish.

Archbishop Andrei (Rymarenko)

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

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Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost: the Miraculous Catch of Fish.

Archbishop Andrei (Rymarenko)

And here, today’s Gospel about the miraculous catch of fish shows us how that same talent (according to the Gospel’s expression, used in "trade" (Mt. 25:16), which means applied to life) is manifested in absolute obedience and trust in the word of the Lord and produces the fruit of faith. But what is faith? What does the process of faith consist of? We are given the answer to this in today’s Gospel (Lk. 5:1-11).

The Carrying of our Cross Means Acquiring the Holy Spirit

Leave-taking of the Exaltation of the Cross—September 21/October 4

Archbishop Meletiy of Chernovitsy

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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The Carrying of our Cross Means Acquiring the Holy Spirit

Leave-taking of the Exaltation of the Cross—September 21/October 4

Archbishop Meletiy of Chernovitsy

In 2009, His Grace Bishop Meletiy of Khotin, Ukraine, now Archbishop of Chernovitsy, visited the St. George Church (ROCOR) in Howell, NJ. At the Divine Liturgy for the Leave-taking of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, His Grace gave a sermon.

How Simple Peasants Became God-Seers

Priest Andrew Ludovic

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How Simple Peasants Became God-Seers

Priest Andrew Ludovic

I was sitting amidst simple folk who had experiences similar to those of St. Gregory Palamas and St. Simeon New Theologian! And of course, they had been blessed by the priest who served the Liturgy, and who was sitting there with us.

Sermon by His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill, on the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord in Moscow’s Church of Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Sermon by His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill, on the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord in Moscow’s Church of Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill

On September 27, 2014, on the feast of the Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Creating Cross of the Lord, His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow & All Russia, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in Moscow’s Church of the Holy Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome. Upon completion of the service, the Primate of the Russian Church addressed the faithful with a sermon.

We beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain

16th Sunday after Pentecost—2 Corinthians 6:1-10

Fr. Seraphim Holland

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We beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain

16th Sunday after Pentecost—2 Corinthians 6:1-10

Fr. Seraphim Holland

Brothers and sisters, I beg you to cultivate this feeling of sorrow in your heart, sorrow for your own sins, sorrow for the situation of those in the world. Not out of judgment on them, but out of deep sorrow that there is so much pain, that there is so much aimlessness and uselessness in the world, that people you love are having troubles and you don't know how to help them.