(Luke 5, 1-11) “Do not despair. Do not see things through your own successes or failures. Listen to what I have to tell you.” In today’s gospel reading […]
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Sunday after the Holy Cross
The renouncing of the self is the whole ascesis ofthespirituallife. In todays gospel reading, the Lord says:”Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny […]
Why Christianity should not change with the times
By St. Theophan the Recluse It has reached my ears that you, it seems, consider my sermons very strict and suppose that nowadays no one should think like that, no […]
Do you believe?
“And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Son of God…” The first article of the Symbol of Creed, speaks about God. Continuing now, we will discuss the second […]
Eleventh Sunday of Matthew (Of the talents)
Are you well disposed towards forgiving those whο trespass against you? In today’s parable, the Lord speaks about a certain king who forgave one of his servants […]
The 10th Sunday of Matthew (the father with the epileptic child)
The crucial point for all of us here is faith The pained father says to Christ that he brought his child to his disciples, but that […]
9th Sunday of Matthew (Jesus walks on the waters)
The disciples were ordinary men. But despite being close to Christ -seeing him, seeing the miracles he performed, and hearing his words- it was as though they were living in […]
8th Sunday of Matthew (The Feeding of the Five Thousand)
Blessed is he that feels that the Lord has had compassion on him We will refer to the Gospel passage that we heard: The Lord saw the […]
7th Sunday of Matthew ( the Two Blind Men )
The issue is not that people be healed of their illnesses, but that they be helped to believe in Christ We do not have sorrow within us […]
6th Sunday of Matthew (of the paralytic)
The Lord wants to see man’s faith so He can cure him The Lord desires to see something from man, in order that He might act. […]