Sermon on the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus
Delivered in Christ the Savior Church on 11/4/2012
Homily on the Sunday of All Saints of Russia
In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Congratulations, Brothers and Sisters, on the feast of All Saints of Russia, on which we commemorate all those saints who have shone forth in the Russian land. We know from sacred history that Russia was not always a land united in its love for God and for the Holy Orthodox Church. Ancient Russia was a pagan land, devoid of the light of the Gospel. It…
Sermon on Holy Pentecost by St John of San Francisco
Source: fatheralexander.org God is a holy Trinity. A Trinity consubstantial and indivisible. Consubstantial, that is, one essence, one nature. A Trinity indivisible: the Son has never been divided from the Father, nor the Holy Spirit from the Father or the Son, and never will be divided. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are not three gods, but one God, since They have one nature. But not only because of this. People also have one nature, one essence. But with people…
A sermon on Holy Ascension by Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov)
“It is audacious and sinful before God to be depressed in this beautiful and wondrous world, which the Lord created for us and through which He leads us to an even more beautiful and wondrous world—the Kingdom of Heaven.” In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit! “I am with you, and no one can be against you,” says the Lord to everyone who believes in Him. No sorrows, no temptation, not even the most terrifying catastrophes should…
Sermon on the Sunday of the Blind Man
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Christ is Risen! Today is the final Sunday before Ascension, the Sunday of the Blind Man. In the Gospel today, the disciples inquire of the Saviour asking on whose account this man was born blind… was it because the man himself sinned or because his parents sinned? The Saviour responds saying: “Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God…