Losing It
What did Jesus mean when He said to take up our cross and follow Him? Fr. Gregory teaches about the principle of losing ourselves to gain Christ.
Oct 07, 2015
A Voice from the Isles
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The Healing Cross
Dn. Christopher gives the homily and says that Christ has destroyed death and the power of evil; he dealt with it in His passion. We have to repent to allow this salvation to work within us.
Oct 07, 2015
Happy New Year!
Fr. Gregory Hallam reflects on the new liturgical year and three mighty manifestations of the Divine Glory.
Oct 07, 2015
Increase Our Faith
What does it mean to have faith and how can we increase it?
Oct 06, 2015
Hope in Our Lady
Fr. Dn. Christopher speaks about the Dormition of the Theotokos.
Oct 06, 2015
Walking Without Fear
It is fear that hinders our walk with God.
Oct 06, 2015
Give to Receive
Deacon Christopher is the speaker today and talks about God doing great things with scarce resources.
Oct 06, 2015
Keeping it Personal
Christianity is a personal affair. It is not abstract, theoretical, a speculative philosophy. It is a personal encounter with the living God who is himself three persons sharing one divine nature.
Oct 06, 2015
Grow Up!
Subdeacon Emmanuel is the homilist today. There is a light that wants to shine on us. However, it can only shine brightly if we move with Jesus from our childhood homes where we grew up to our present homes where we can now grow into being disciples of Jesus Christ.
Oct 06, 2015
The Light of the World
We are called to be lights in the world. We are the representatives of Christ in the world today, so of course we take on the role of being light to the world.
Oct 06, 2015
Be Light
St. Symeon teaches that when we pray, the indwelling Light of Christ can lift us up to the very Paradise itself of which St. Paul himself haltingly spoke.
Oct 06, 2015
Saints Alive
Subdeacon Emmanuel is the homilist and speaks about the celebration of the saints of Britain and Ireland as well as all saints abroad.
Oct 06, 2015
Loving Christ As He Is
Deacon Christopher is the homilist today. He says we must be careful to respond to people as they are and in particular we must be aware that Christ is not to be fitted into some expectations of ours. We need to know Him as He is.
Oct 06, 2015
Power and Fruit
How does the Orthodox Church understand the Person and Work of the Holy Spirit?
Oct 06, 2015
Not Quite God
There is one key issue that we now face in the post-Christian West. In so far as many people believe that there is a God they take the divine to be a simple, abstract, impersonal force
Oct 06, 2015
Going Up
Perhaps nothing in the Christian Church has been more misunderstood in the modern age than the Ascension.
Oct 06, 2015
Looking Intently
Subdeacon Emmanuel gives the homily on the Sunday of the Blind Man.
Oct 06, 2015
Keeping Watch With Christ
Subdeacon Emmanuel is the homilist for the Great and Holy Thursday service.
Oct 06, 2015
From Paralysis to Action
Dn. Christopher is the guest homilist for the Sunday of the Paralytic.
Oct 06, 2015
Grief Gives Way To Joy
The Holy Myrrh Bearing Women were the first to proclaim the risen Christ to their incredulous male counterparts.
Oct 06, 2015
Free At Last
Deacon Christopher is the homilist on Great and Holy Saturday.
Oct 06, 2015
A Personal and Social Resurrection
Fr. Gregory encourages us to live the joy of the resurrection all year round.
Oct 06, 2015
Cursed No More
Why did our Lord have to suffer and die? We cannot conclude with the benefit of hindsight that this was simply what He had to endure to make the resurrection possible. Orthodox Christianity insists that there is necessary meaning in both the death and resurrection of our Lord.
Oct 06, 2015
Hope in the Desert
Today's sermon is given by Dn. Christopher speaking about Saint Mary of Egypt, one of the greatest examples of personal repentance that we have.
Oct 06, 2015
Venerate the Cross
We need the perspective of the Cross in the midst of Great Lent in order to remind ourselves of the goal of that journey that we undertake through fasting, repentance, almsgiving and prayer. It is that we might come to the beginning of Great and Holy Week with a Godly intention to know nothing else but "Christ and him crucified."
Oct 06, 2015
When We Suffer
According to St. Bede, God uses our suffering to stimulate our fortitude, faith, humility, repentance and vigilance.
Oct 06, 2015
Overcoming the World
The faith that overcomes the world is the true faith, Orthodoxy, not heterodoxy or otherwise believing.
Oct 06, 2015
Why Do We Fast?
When did fasting begin? Did Jesus start the whole thing off? The righteous and the repentant fasted in the Old Testament. Well, what about Abraham then? The fact is, humankind was taught to fast right from the very beginning, in the Garden of Eden.
Oct 06, 2015
The Last Judgement and the Love of God
In our lives, crucial choices have to be made and upon these choices our eternal destiny depends.
Oct 06, 2015
Merciful Father
Although commonly known as the parable of the prodigal son this story in the gospel today is misnamed. It should rather be called: “the parable of the merciful Father” for the story concentrates all its attention on the compassion of the father.
Oct 06, 2015
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