Category archives: Holy Fathers
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3 years ago
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To those who are be Enlightened, delivered extempore at Jerusalem, as an Introductory Homily to those who had come forward for Baptism
St. Cyril, the Archbishop of Jerusalem
Reading from Isaiah 1, 16: „Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away your iniquities from your souls, from before ... [read more]
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3 years ago
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Biography of St. Cyril, the Archbishop of Jerusalem
St. Cyryl, Archbishop of Jerusalem and one o the „Doctors of the Chuch”, was born most probably in Jerusalem about 316 A.D, just about the time the emperor Constantine legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire (313 A.D) and reposed in peace pro... [read more]
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3 years ago
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One the Holy and Dread Mysteries of Christ
Saint Gregory Palamas
The word wich brings about the salvation of our souls is analogous to seed. Just as farmers first cultivate the earth wich the plough, then sow seed, so must we prepare ourselves beforehand to accept the heavenly seed, by w... [read more]
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3 years ago
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Homily one
One Peace With one Another
Saint Gregory Palamas
Delivered three days after his arrival in Thessalonica
We are all brethren in that we have one Creator and Lord,who is Father to us all. That brotherhood we share with animals and inanimate nature. We are also brethren one to ... [read more]
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4 years ago
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Christ as our Friend ( Elder Porphyrios )
With the love of Christ He becomes our friend. Saint John says, "There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. The person who fears is not perfected in love" (1 John 4:18). So as our love grows it dissol... [read more]
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4 years ago
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On the Respect Due to the Church of God and to the Sacred Mysteries
by St. John Chrysostomos
Very few have come here today. Whatever is the reason? We celebrated the Feast of the Martyrs, and nobody comes? The length of the road makes them reluctant; or rather it is not the length of t... [read more]
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4 years ago
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Homily 20 on Ephesians 5:22-24 St. John Chrysostomos
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the Church: being Himself the Saviour of the body. But as the Church is subject to Christ, so let t... [read more]
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4 years ago
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Homily 12 on Colossians 4:12, 13
St. John Chrysostom
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God. For I bear him witness, that he has much zeal fo... [read more]
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4 years ago
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Homily 2 on the Gospel of
John 1:1
St. John Chrysostom
In the beginning was the Word.
Were John about to converse with us, and to say to us words of his own, we needs must describe his family, his country, and his education. But since it is not he, but God by him, that spea... [read more]
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4 years ago
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Counsels of Elder Porphyrios
He spoke to us about our faith and how Orthodoxy is the only true faith.
It is like a pearl because the Elder knew all other religions. At other times he would say, “when someone does something bad to you or thinks something bad about you, you shou... [read more]
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4 years ago
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Homily 1 on the Gospel of St. John Chrysostom
1. They that are spectators of the heathen games, when they have learned that a distinguished athlete andwinner of crowns has come from any quarter, run all together to view his wrestling, and all his skill and strength; and you may see the ... [read more]
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