Audio: http://www.orthodox.net/sermons/pen-sun-01-2023+a-practical-thing-everyone-can-do-to-become-a-saint.mp3
Video: https://youtu.be/jtDyOA4HXdA
Many of us are burdened by our sins and may not be able to pray well, don’t read the Bible very often, and other things that we know we should be doing but for some reason we don’t do . How can we be saved? It’s real easy if we concentrate on doing one thing that everyone can do no matter what their spiritual state is, or how much they pray, etc. And the wonder is that the more we do this thing, the more everything gets better. “But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.” Mat 19:30
A clip (from 8:18 – 14:49) from the sermon on Pentecost, 2023 (https://youtu.be/F5ueLVemLjY, Audio: http://www.orthodox.net/sermons/pen-sun-01_2023+becoming-a-saint.mp3)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtDyOA4HXdA
We tell the “Nativity story” as given in Matthew, and most beautiful thing in it – “Emmanuel” – “god is with us”. This title of Jesus Christ is the greatest difference between Christianity and all other religions, and the greatest motivation for us to struggle in this life.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR2j5OJvQp8
Audio: http://www.orthodox.net/sermons/misc_2023+purpose-of-great-lent+seeking-after-beauty.mp3
Video: https://youtu.be/-WC-IjYwfUc
Some people need to think about the last judgment in order to be motivated but most people are motivated the most by beauty and feeling God move in their heart. This is the purpose of Great Lent, to seek after beauty and feel God move in our hearts. From a sermon Given on the Sunday of the Last Judgment, 2/19/2023 ns.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WC-IjYwfUc
A review emphasizing the pastoral considerations of the very important book for our time: “On the Reception of the Heterodox Into the Orthodox Church."
Video: https://youtu.be/iNUa8uaUZSU
Text: http://www.orthodox.net/articles/on-the-reception-of-the-heterodox-into-the-orthodox-church_2023-07-27.docx
Text: http://www.orthodox.net/articles/on-the-reception-of-the-heterodox-into-the-orthodox-church_2023-07-27.pdf
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNUa8uaUZSU
What is life? It is bearing fruit, and being conformed to the image of Jesus Christ.
The most important teaching of the Parable of the Vineyard is that life is bearing fruit. The epistle of St Paul to the Romans that is appointed today, for the Martyr Mamas, teaches what this fruit is – to be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfF0HYyQpe8
Comparing the Old and New Calendars. Is there “grace” in both? What are the problems with either one?
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/nVC47JDX2n0
AUDIO: http://www.orthodox.net/catechism/catechesis_2024-04-21+new-and-old-calendar.mp3
Answer to a question during catechism. We compare the two calendars and some of these liturgical problems with the new calendar. We also emphatically teach that following the new calendar is not heresy, nor does it mean that a church does not have grace, but it is certainly apparent that some churches that follow the new calendar have some significant deficits concerning ecumenism and Orthodox culture.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVC47JDX2n0
We follow our usual format of answering questions, presenting the life of Saint (in this case . John the Merciful and Martin of Tours), and then a psalm (Psalm 6), and then our current topic, which is the exorcism prayers, as said in the Making of the Catechumen service.
Audio: http://www.orthodox.net/catechesis/catechism_2022-11-27+john-the-merciful-psalm-6+exorcism-prayer-5.mp3
Video: https://youtu.be/-smW8kZ9sGY
0:00 – 3:37 Is it a sin to be proud of someone else?
6:38 One big reason why Orthodox Christianity is not popular in our society.
8:16 – 10:14 We must fight within ourselves the narcissism in our society.
8:49 – 10:14 We are not truly “Orthodox” until we acquire the mind/phronema/ethos of the church.
10:04 – 21:24 We must read the lives of the saints! They are the Gospel “played out”. And a question about “Modern” martyrs vs “ancient” martyrs.
21:24 – 25:57 St Philaret the Merciful
25:57 – 31:45 “Related” to an episode in the life of St Philaret the Merciful: Is Klaus Scwab a neighbor? And should we acknowledge that we have “enemies?”
28:32 – 31:45 Can anyone be so far gone that they lose the path to salvation?
31:45 – 32:55 Can we pray for the Devil? What about suicides?
32:59 – 34:54 Does the command to turn the other cheek mean that you should always allow yourself to be abused? And: Christians are not pacifists! Everything we do is an active choice, including submission.
34:54 – 53:06 Psalm 6
37:39 – 38:18 Concerning the wrath of God.
38:18 Have mercy on me, for I am weak…
39:39 Turn to me again…
43:38 I toiled in my groaning…
41:35 – 42:39 Advice given to people in prison.
42:49 Through wrath is mine eye become troubled…
43:25 Depart from me, all you who work vanity…
42:29 – 50:46 Why should we read the Gospel? A BIG reason. And about prioritizing our reading.
50:54 – 53:06 The Lord hath heard my supplication…
53:09 – 54:57 St Martin the Merciful.
54:57 Prayers at the making of a Catechumen. Exorcism prayer 4
56:11 – 1:02:34 Exorcism Prayer 4
58:49 – 59:24 When does a person “receive” their guardian angel?
59:24 – 1:00:10 The “demon of noonday”
1:02:34 – 1:03:16 The Highest prayer is the Divine Liturgy, but it must *not* be the only prayer for us!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-smW8kZ9sGY
Romans 13:11–14:4
Matthew 6:14–21
Why is forgiveness mandatory for salvation? Fr. Seraphim meditates on the critical nature of forgiveness in the Christian life as we prepare to start Lent.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKiispqB3GY