Christ, the Light of the World
Sunday Zoom Talk The Otherness of Love: The Response to the Supreme Calling of Christ Buy Now
The Last Days and the Repose of Saint Sophrony
Question: Could you tell us something about his last days of Father Sophrony? Answer: I do not know what to say. He was ‘a man of God’, all his being was rapt in God until the end. As he was very noble and kind, when he was speaking with me in Russian or in Greek, …
Word for Saint Sophrony
Sunday Zoom Talk A Presentation of the Theology of Saint Sophrony “Christ, Our Way and our Life” Buy Now
All Saints – An Image of the Holy Spirit
Zoom Talk on the Sunday of All Saints God formed man with His hands from the dust of the ground. Ιn a priestly manner, He performed the mystery of Pentecost by breathing into Adam’s nostrils ‘the breath of life’, His Holy Spirit, ‘and man became a living soul’. However, man foolishly disobeyed the divine precept …
Talk of Father Zacharias to the public at St. Tikhon’s theological seminary on Hesychasm
In my paper about hesychasm I wanted to express that all Orthodox people form one Body. Many of the things I said about hesychasm are surely familiar to you because we all live them in the Divine Liturgy, the greatest school and treasure that God has given us upon earth. Unless we leave aside all …
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The Source of Inspiration for the Life to Come
Sunday of the Myrrhbearers One might ask why this long preparation for the gift of both the Resurrection and Pentecost is needed, since God never ceases to bestow His benefits on us. It is because being defiled by sin, man is not able to receive even a little grace from God. He must cultivate within …
The Godly Competition of the Saints
Fifth Sunday of Great Lent: Sunday of Saint Mary of Egypt In the person of St Mary of Egypt, whom we feast today, we can clearly discern the fact that whosoever embraces the Cross of Christ, finds healing and is led into a supernatural transformation of his existence, in which the indestructible power of the …
The Otherness of Love – extracts
Monasticism is indeed paradoxical in the eyes of the world, whose natural tendency is to throw off the yoke of humility and avoid pain and suffering. Whereas the monk, in his endeavour to remain continuously in the ‘earthquake’ of God’s presence, takes upon himself the yoke of humility and is granted experience of its hidden …
Vespers of Forgiveness Sunday
God longs to receive us as His children into His eternal Kingdom, and for this reason the Church is filled during this period with great grace, which is offered to all people who thirst for a taste of the Resurrection by following her programme. Lent is a journey. In the Gospel of St Matthew, God …
The Fulness of Time
The New Testament is not merely different from the Old but brings to the world the incomparable uniqueness of new life in Christ. The Lord came that we may have life and have it in abundance. He is the fulness of time, for He made time our very precious friend. The fulness of time is …