Homily: The Tradition of Witness, the Witness of Desire

Rev. Gregory Jensen

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Homily: The Tradition of Witness, the Witness of Desire

Rev. Gregory Jensen

But what we profess is not a philosophy, even if (in the hands of some) it has become an ideology. What we profess is not mere history. What we profess is human history transformed and transfigured to become Holy Tradition, the Voice of the Holy Spirit leading the Church from generation to generation.

“Let us Purify Our Senses”: A Sermon for the Sunday of Orthodoxy

Hieromonk Herman (Majkrzak)

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“Let us Purify Our Senses”: A Sermon for the Sunday of Orthodoxy

Hieromonk Herman (Majkrzak)

Lent is a time for us to become much more conscientious about what impressions we allow to be made on our souls. What do we watch? What do we listen to? Do these things befit our dignity as human beings? Are we cleansing and adorning the image of God within us, or are we obscuring and damaging it?

Strict/Too Strict

Igumen Gregory (Zaiens)

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Strict/Too Strict

Igumen Gregory (Zaiens)

So we can err by missing the point of our prayers and church services, which is to enter within. As we have seen above in St. Theophan, he who, “has abandoned sin and is zealous for virtue, but has not yet entered within himself, works for the Lord only outwardly”; however, “he who has entered within carries the Lord in himself”.

40 Holy Martyrs of Sebaste

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40 Holy Martyrs of Sebaste

Triumph of Tradition

Fr. Jonathan Tobias

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Triumph of Tradition

Fr. Jonathan Tobias

In every work of Creation, the Father is the Creator, the Son is the Artist, and the Spirit is the Finisher. And in everything — from every blade of grass to every mountain, from every little animal to the ocean and the stars — Christ has designed Creation to prove His love for you, and to draw you, in deep desire, to communion with Him in friendship.