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10 Dec 2022

 

A certain man once appealed to Jesus Christ with a request to order his brother to divide an inheritance with him. Christ declined this request, for He came not in order to hear lawsuits within the competence of...

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03 Dec 2022

Troparion

 

Today is the prelude of God's goodwill and the heralding of the salvation of mankind. In the temple of God, the...

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26 Nov 2022

The parable of the Good Samaritan is well known to many of us from childhood. It is customary to think that we know it well. But do we? On the face of it, we sort of know it. But really, it is only possible to spiritually know some parable, some...

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24 Nov 2022

In the 13th century, during the dreadful period of the Tartar invasion of Russia, the devastated province of Kursk was emptied of people and its principal city, Kursk, became a wilderness. Now, the residents of the city of Rylsk, which had been preserved from...

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19 Nov 2022

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

 

We meet with a very different scene in today’s Gospel than the one with which we ended last Sunday. In the verse just before today’s...

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05 Nov 2022

Sermon preached by Fr. Antony Hughes on Sunday, November 1, 2009

The Reading of the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke 16:19-31

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29 Oct 2022

The parable of the Sower and the other parables, set forth in the 13th chapter of the Gospel according to Matthew and in the parallel places in the Gospels according to Mark and Luke, were spoken by Christ during such a large concourse of people...

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22 Oct 2022


Elder Makary's face was scarred by smallpox, he stuttered and was always poorly dressed, but he was distinguished by a very refined personality. He was born to a landed gentry family, loved music and was a talented violinist. (...

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15 Oct 2022

31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

32 For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for...

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01 Oct 2022

In the times of the Gospel, a talent denoted a very large sum of money. A talent corresponded to sixty minas. A mina equaled a hundred dinarii. During the earthly life of the Saviour, an ordinary worker earned one dinarius a day.

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