Experiencing the Annunciation
Fr. Deacon Emmanuel gives the sermon on the Feast of the Annunciation.

Fr. Deacon Emmanuel gives the sermon on the Feast of the Annunciation.
Fr. Gregory is the homilist at the Pan-Orthodox Vespers at the Greek Cathedral in London.
Fr. Christopher gives the sermon on the Triumph of Orthodoxy.
The nature of Christ’s return will be within me and within you. We are now ready to put on Christ within ourselves in how we live as baptised Orthodox Christians.
The Last Judgement is not so much about the trial as about the revelation of truth, of acts, intentions, and the nature of our being.
Saving repentance happens when we come to our senses, to our natural state and identity as children of God made in His image and likeness. By coming back to God we return to our true self; restored to God we become fully human again with the fullness of life.
Fr. Gregory suggests that perhaps it is time to take stock of our own service, to consider what talents God has given us, and to take care that we use them fully.
Sermon for 3rd February: Afterfeast of the Meeting Sermon by Deacon Emmanuel preached by Fr. Gregory at a Hierarchical Liturgy in the Church of St. Ignatios, Belfast (presiding bishop, His Grace Bishop Hanna (Berlin).
Fr. Gregory preaches on the story of Zacchaeus and his determination to see Jesus.
Fr. Christopher is the homilist today and he says that historically Christianity has not picked fights but we do know when to draw the line.
Fr. Dcn. Emmanuel gives the homily from the Epistle to the Ephesians.
The faithful at St. Aidan's celebrate a baptism and Fr. Gregory teaches on the significance of the Troparion for the Feast of Theophany.
Fr. Gregory preaches on the healthy and unhealthy forms of zeal.
Fr. Gregory reads a sermon by St. Gregory the Theologian on the Incarnation of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Fr. Christopher reminds us that St. Joseph and the Theotokos were confronted with far more challenges in their lives than any of us are ever likely to experience. However, their responses to those immense challenges offer us responses from which we can learn.
The Orthodox Church has always regarded the saints of the Old Testament as saints as much as any born after Christ.
Father Deacon Emmanuel gives the homily on the banquet story in Luke 14.
Fr. Gregory Hallam's sermon on the feast of the conception of the most holy Theotokos by the righteous Anna.
Anything that separates us from God is bad no matter how big or small it is in our eyes. The most difficult sins to uproot are those we keep covered up in darkness because we are reluctant, for whatever reason, to expose them to the Light, which is Christ.
The rich Pharisee in the gospel couldn’t make it. He couldn’t grow up. He couldn’t leave behind the letter of Jewish law to find the spirit of Jewish life. We can grow up. We can move from a focus on the letter of Orthodox law into the reality of living our lives to the full as Orthodox Christians.
Fr. Gregory uses the example of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple to instruct on how we should enter church for worship.
This week there is an important feast celebrating the Archangel Michael and the angel Gabriel and six other angels.
The outcast woman receives healing demonstrating the power of our Lord and the power of prayer.
Let us take hope that, acquainted as we are with our sin and weakness, God can make a wonderful work of glory from the raw material of our brokenness.
Every icon is a mediator, a means of reconciling each of us to God.
Church teaching is that every human being is loved by God, is unique and a special person. We are called to love each other as Christ loves us.
When we are commanded by our Lord to be merciful even as our Heavenly Father is merciful this means that we must try by an entire reliance on God and His grace to become in this world as God is in this world, merciful.
Fr. Dn. Christopher preaches on the Nativity of the Theotokos.
Why is it vital to confess Mary as Theotokos, God-bearer such that one cannot truly be a Christian and deny that?
Fr. Dn. Christopher preaches on the life of St. Aidan, the Patron Saint of the parish in Manchester.