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Remainder of Lent, Holy Week
Some folks have problems loading up the schedule, so I thought I'd post an easier-to-read version here. Schedule for remainder of Great...
Father Photios
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What is Orthodoxy?
What is Orthodoxy? by Archbishop Averky of Syracuse and Holy Trinity Monastery ON THE FIRST SUNDAY of the Great Fast our Church...
Father Photios
7 days ago8 min read
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A Lenten Encouragement and Prayer
St. Isaak the Syrian's ascetical homilies are a wealth of spiritual sustenance. Yes, there are some strictly monastic things in his...
Father Photios
Mar 193 min read
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A Sermon on the Sunday of Saint Gregory Palamas
By Metropolitan Moses of Toronto In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Brothers and Sisters in Christ,...
Father Photios
Mar 177 min read
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See That Ye Walk Circumspectly
"See that Ye Walk Circumspectly" (Ephesians 5:15) by Archbishop Averky (Taushev) of blessed memory In more modern language these words...
Father Photios
Mar 1710 min read
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The FINAL Sign!
The finally final sign has been installed. It harkens back to the original sign on the front of the building from many years ago. Once...
fatherphotiosgoc
Mar 111 min read
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The Synodikon, a Document for All Times
Every year, on the first Sunday of the Great Fast, the Synodicon of the Seventh Ecumenical Council is read in the Orthodox Church. The...
Father Photios
Mar 95 min read
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MeatFare Sunday
"When the Son of Man shall come in His glory..."
Father Photios
Feb 2320 min read
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On Prayer
From St. Dimitri of Rostov, "On the Inner Man", chapter 2 CHAPTER 2. On prayer that invigorates a man and unites him in love to God ...
Father Photios
Feb 172 min read
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CHRIST CALLS THE SINFUL SOUL TO HIMSELF
Wherefore have you abandoned Me, O man? Wherefore have you turned away from the One Who loves you? Wherefore have you cleaved to My...
Father Photios
Jan 183 min read
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December 9th, OS
The homily from the Prologue of Ochrid, for today, December 9th/22nd(NS) Before the reading, let us remember the words of St. James that...
Father Photios
Dec 22, 20242 min read
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The Holy Fathers: A Sure Guide to True Christianity
By Fr. Seraphim Rose NEVER HAS THERE BEEN such an age of false teachers as this pitiful 20th century, so rich in material gadgets and so...
Father Photios
Dec 14, 202414 min read
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Rejoice When You Are Wronged
St. Mark the Ascetic: Counsels on the Spiritual Life; The Mind’s Advice to Its Own Soul; “Rejoice When We are Wronged” "It is necessary,...
Father Photios
Nov 12, 20242 min read
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Look at Yourself
Why do you look to others?
Father Photios
Oct 14, 20242 min read
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Covered in Dust
One of my brother priests told me this story about prayer. "I arrived to a home many years ago to bless it and the occupying family...
Father Photios
Sep 27, 20245 min read
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TO A BEGINNER IN THE FAITH - ABOUT RETURNING TO THE FAITH
From (St.) Nikolai Velimirovic's Missionary Letters, letter 162 As one returning home from a great distance, so you feel now returning...
Father Photios
Sep 14, 20243 min read
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Tested by Prayer
From "Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaak of Syria," Homily 58 To choose what is good belongs to the good volition of the man who desires it;...
Father Photios
Aug 31, 20242 min read
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On Frequent Communion
By Hieromonk Arsenius of Mt. Athos; Originally from "Athonite Leaflets" #105 St. Panteleimon's Monastery 1905 (Hieromonk Arsenius was a...
Father Photios
Aug 17, 20246 min read
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Heaven on Earth
St. John of Kronstadt The Divine Liturgy is truly a heavenly service upon earth, during which God Himself, in a particular, immediate,...
Father Photios
Aug 2, 20245 min read
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St. Ioasaph of Edmonton
Brief life of Archbishop Ioasaph, founder of St. Vladimir's church, Edmonton from “The Orthodox Word”, March-April 1968 It was Novgorod...
Father Photios
Jul 22, 20247 min read
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