Children’s Sermon: St Panteleimon. Parable of the 2 sons asked to work in the vineyard. 2022-08-07 Video: https://youtu.be/0aGAYj8xJVg Audio: http://www.orthodox.net/sermons/childrens-sermon_2023-08-09+panteleimon+parable-two-sons.mp3 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aGAYj8xJVg

The church's prayer teaches us with flagrant honesty about ourselves and God. It is full of compulsion and repentance and promises, which we make to Him in our prayer. We use the troparion of the prophecy from the 6th Thursday of Great Lent, at the 6th hour, to illustrate these points. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVk2s_T3rpA

Audio: http://www.orthodox.net/pascha-sun-04_2023+paralytic+do-you-want-to-be-healed-the-great-multitude.mp3 Video: https://youtu.be/jTgZCcXERFU The healing of the paralytic is our healing because we are paralytics. He waited for a healing that occurred once a year, but we receive our healing through baptism and our subsequent efforts to be healed. We must want to be healed. Therefore we must answer our Lord’s question of the paralytic: “Yes!” - by our actions and our priorities. And we must notice the multitude of which we are among. If we don’t notice and care for the multitude we will not be healed. A homily given at the “Seeker of the Lost Orthodox Church” in North Little Rock when I was serving so that the Carder family could get some much-deserved rest. Audio/Video Timestamps 0:28 - 1:01 A Review of Thomas Sunday – one example of how Christ enlightens a soul (with its participation!) 1:01 A Review of the Myrhbearing women – another way God enlightens a participating soul . 1:33 – 2:59 The enlightenment of Luke and Cleophas 2:59 – 4:23 Enlightenment is a process, the enlightenment of the paralytic 4:49 – 12:39 There was a great multitude. Do we see the multitude? We must see the multitude. 7:02 - 12:39 A Simple Rule of Ministry 8:54 – 12:39 Pray your intercessions and requests according to your life experiences. 12:23 – 15:09 When homeless people come to the church, and some “Andrei” stories 15:12 – 15:32 “For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.” John 5:4 15:32 – 20:40 “Wilt thou be made whole?” 19:08 – 20:40 Two fundamental principles that must be followed if we want to be made whole: “Do what you are *able* to do” and “It is always good to do a little think instead of *not* doing a big thing.” 20:40 – 22:10 “The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.”John 5: 10 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTgZCcXERFU

NM Athanasios made his glorious witness 01-07-1700, after he was overheard saying something that sounded to the Moslems to be part of their confession of faith. He was therefore dragged before the judge, threatened, imprisoned, tortured, and eventually beheaded. Life isn’t always fair. We should not expect it to be fair. We moderns have this character defect that we expect our politicians and other worldly people to be fair. Let’s stop expecting our society to be fair, and let’s start living true Christian lives, be ready for whatever might happen. Youtube: https://youtu.be/LBHv0hzv6sw ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBHv0hzv6sw