Take Up Your Cross
Fr. Emmanuel preaches about the meaning of "taking up the cross."
Nov 13, 2015
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Become a Witness for Christ
Fr. Emmanuel Kahn gives the sermon on the Feast of All Saints and encourages us to follow the example of the great "Cloud of Witnesses."
Nov 13, 2015
Recognizing the Moment
Whether as individuals or as couples we too are each called in the words of Zacharias as set out in the Gospel of St. Luke to “prepare His ways”—that is, to prepare the way of Jesus Christ in our own lives and in the lives of others.
Nov 13, 2015
The Holy Trinity: A Life for Our Lives
Let us make the sign of the cross, and invite the Presence of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit into our lives—into our hopes and our fears. God already knows those hopes and fears, but sometimes He waits for us to share our lives with Him privately, to be honest with Him, so that He can then be honest with us, through revealing some of the fullness of Himself to each of us.
Nov 13, 2015
Feeding on Christ the Living Word
Fr. Emmanuel asks how did Jesus Christ take five loaves of bread and two fish and feed 5,000 people?
Nov 13, 2015
As a Child
Today we celebrate the Feast of St. Luke—the author of the Gospel of St. Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. The preacher today is Fr. Emmanuel Kahn.
Nov 13, 2015
How Can We Discover the Divine Image in Ourselves?
Fr. Emmanuel Kahn says St. Paul sets before us a model—that we should be as “beloved children”—that is children who are deeply loved by their parents and others, because God first loves us before we learn to love Him.
Nov 13, 2015
All Saints or All Witches?
Fr. Emmanuel Kahn gives the homily and compares Halloween with All Saints' Day.
Nov 13, 2015
Wise Old Owls
Fr. Gregory Hallam says we need to learn how to listen to God and most importantly actually to do it on the basis that He does indeed want to speak to us.
Oct 23, 2015
Piscine Bellies and Kingdom Nets
Are we slouched downcast in the belly of the fish or are we striding away from the shore with God’s net in our backpack? Fr. Gregory says the choice is always ours. Let us choose well.
Oct 23, 2015
Plant the Cross in Your Heart
In the human heart we must carve out a Cross-shaped impression so that the Holy Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ may be planted there; for only if it is planted there will it grow and bear fruit.
Oct 23, 2015
The Mother of the Light is Born
Fr. Gregory gives the sermon on the Nativity of the Theotokos as we celebrate this first great feast of the new Church year.
Oct 23, 2015
Wooden Chalices, Golden Bishops
A Bishop is called not to be a successful manager, a smooth operator, a charming person, an efficient administrator, nor even an amazing preacher. Some of these things are good and necessary but without humility they can never be enlisted in the service of love and the God who is love.
Oct 23, 2015
Poisoned Wells and Living Water
Fr. Gregory says that Orthodox Christians, particularly in the West, should reacquaint themselves with what the Orthodox Church teaches about Christ and salvation. In few places is this more clearly and attractively presented than in the writings of early Greek theologian and martyr, St Irenaeus (130 – 202).
Oct 23, 2015
Become an Apostle of the Lord
Fr. Emmanuel Kahn says we can each be apostles to those with whom we live or work or study—whatever our ages or intellectual ability.
Oct 23, 2015
Mother and Son
Fr. Emmanuel Kahn suggests that as we think about the Dormition of the Theotokos, we need time to understand how the life and death of the Mother of God relates to each of us.
Oct 23, 2015
Into the Light
St Seraphim of Sarov, the translation of whose relics we celebrate today, remains one of the outstanding examples of Christian holiness
Oct 23, 2015
The Transformation of Suffering
Fr. Gregory introduces a guest preacher today who talks about the pattern of redemption: the Lord heals the soul and then the body.
Oct 23, 2015
Too Many Worries
Fr. Gregory shares a word from Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain and his explanation of Matthew 6:22-23.
Oct 23, 2015
Chad's Choice
Fr. Gregory talks about one of Britain's own- St. Chad, a saint taught by their own St Aidan in his monastic school at Lindisfarne and belonging with his own three brothers to a missionary team that worked in Northumbria and in the north-western part of the ancient kingdom of Mercia in the generation after St Aidan’s death.
Oct 23, 2015
Be Kindled Not Burned
The Holy Spirit came upon the Apostles at Pentecost as a roaring wind and in tongues of fire from Heaven. The river of fire for them meant no danger at all but rather a personal powerful presence of God in their hearts and lives, the promised Holy Spirit.
Oct 23, 2015
The Gift of Eternal Life
Fr. Emmanuel Kahn teaches that the challenge which the Father gave to Christ and to his disciples and to us is to learn and to achieve the work on earth that the Father wishes each of us to accomplish.
Oct 23, 2015
A Judge We Can Trust
Fr. Christopher reminds us that the feast of the Ascension marks the transition from Christ’s presence in a limited sense to an unlimited one. He ascends to this universal presence on account of His being both God and man.
Oct 23, 2015
Confessing the Faith
How many Christians in the comfortable West would, like St Paul and St Silas, having been thrown into jail for such an uncompromising witness, proceed to sing hymns of praise to God all night in the midst of such a challenging situation?
Oct 23, 2015
Getting to the Point
Fr. Christopher gives the homily about the Samaritan Woman and the example of Christ in relating to people according to their needs and situations.
Oct 23, 2015
Revolutionary Widows
Fr. Gregory says that St. Peter in Lydda should have taken the trouble to visit Joppa to raise Dorcas from the dead shows the importance that the early Church gave to the plight of widows.
Oct 23, 2015
The Church Can Face Its Problems
The appointment of Deacons in the church is the subject of today's sermon by Deacon Emmanuel Kahn.
Oct 23, 2015
Is He Risen Indeed?
Fr. Christopher asks, when it comes to the resurrection of Jesus, is Church Tradition honest? Could the whole story have been made up? Surely anything less than honesty in the Church is not acceptable.
Oct 23, 2015
Pascha is Everywhere
There is no place where the resurrection of Christ has not touched. All things are “under his feet” – his victorious feet! Pascha is everywhere and nothing is the same.
Oct 23, 2015
Victory and New Life
Fr. Christopher delivers the Paschal homily.
Oct 23, 2015
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