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LESSONS FROM THE UNFORGIVING SERVANT
In this sermon for the 22nd Sunday After Trinity, we discuss the way in which the readings from our lectionary come together through Christ's story of the "Unforgiving Servant." We explore how we are like this servant in our reluctance to share the Apostolic and Orthodox Gospel with those around us, in our desire to see our enemies suffer, and our lack of ability to forgive others of sins for which we ourselves have been forgiven. We focus on the importance of repentance and confession, not as a magic ritual, but as a inner process of heart transformation and life sanctification.
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THE BODY OF MOSES AND THE ARMOR OF GOD
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In this Sermon for the 21st Sunday After Trinity, we discuss principles of Christian life that arise from examining the life of Moses, St. Paul’s description of our spiritual armor, and the story of Christ healing the nobleman’s son.
CALLED TO THE LAMB’S SUPPER: A SERMON FOR THE 20TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
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Welcome to St. Alopen’s Church! We are delighted to have you all with us this morning as we love and praise our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! Today we will examine our Scripture readings and talk about the final destination of the Christian life: the final perfection, the “telos”, for which all of us strive, which is not some staid and boring holiness, as we play harps on our clouds and no lon...
ENRAGING THE PHARISEES: FINDING AN IDENTITY IN CHRIST’S LOVE
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In this sermon for the 19th Sunday After Trinity, Bp. Joseph (Ancient Church of the West) dives deep into the healing of the paralytic (Matthew 9:1-8) and St. Paul’s exhortation in Ephesians 4:17-32, challenging us to confront the Pharisaic attitudes in our own hearts. Discover how Christ’s radical forgiveness enraged the religious authorities of His day, and how His love calls us to a new iden...
MARRIAGE AS A SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE
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In this Clericus, we discuss the unique, sacramental aspects of Christian Marriage - its theology, iconography, and significance in the spiritual life. We discuss the concept that marriage is equal to singleness/monasticism as a life-giving pathway to holiness, talk about how it teaches us Christlikeness and self-emptying, and discover how the sacrament of marriage is mirrored in the other sacr...
A Sermon for Mid-Autumn Festival
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Beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, or Zhong Qiu Jie (中秋節), we are reminded of the deep bonds that unite us-bonds of family, community, and the faith we hold in the one true God. This time of year is a season of harvest, when the fruits of our labor are gathered, and we reflect on the blessings God has given us. It is also a time of reunion...
The Kingdom Come
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In this Sermon for the 15th Sunday After Trinity, we examine the appointed Scriptures from the Psalms, Isaiah, Galatians and the Gospel of St. Matthew. We reflect on how they command us to rest in God's providence, to glory in the Cross of Christ, and anticipate the way in which God's plan for our lives, regardless of all the suffering and pain that we experience, leads us into the fruit of our...
13th Sunday After Trinity
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In this homily for the 13th Sunday After Trinity, we discuss the implications for the Story of the Good Samaritan, look into what St. John Chrysostom, CS Lewis, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, and our Caroline and Nonjuring Fathers thought about this story, and meditate upon the meaning of Christ's challenging question - "Who is your neighbor?" May God bless your week as you seek to honor, worship an...
GUARD AGAINST DISTRACTIONS
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In this sermon preached for the 12th Sunday After Trinity at St. Valentine’s Cathedral Chapel in Loveland, Ohio, Bp. Joseph speaks to the newly ordained Readers in the Church about the most important things of life, how we worship whatever we focus on and devote our time and energy to, and how the most important thing in life, in light of our inevitable death, is to focus on God and worship Him...
SERMON FOR THE TENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
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SERMON FOR THE TENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
Children’s Sermon for the Second Sunday of Lent
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Children’s Sermon for the Second Sunday of Lent
It’s NOT a Religion: It’s a Relationship?
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It’s NOT a Religion: It’s a Relationship?
Fasting in the Western Orthodox Tradition
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Fasting in the Western Orthodox Tradition
Amen !
I know scholars don't believe that Moses was a real person. But I can prove it. They don't believe in Moses because the Exodus seems so absurd. Two or three million people and hundreds of thousands of livestock surviving forty years in the desert. And leaving no trace. It simply was not that large in numbers I believe. We now know things that were not available in the past. The key is Moses and the burning bush where Moses converts to the God Yahweh. We have now found (through Egyptian hieroglyphics) that Yahweh was the god of the Shasu People a nomadic desert people living right where The Israelites were lost. There were different tribes all with mountains that their Gods were connected to. Yahweh was a mountain god a volcano god a storm god. As we know him a God of the wilderness. Likely they encountered the lost Israelites and taught them to survive in the desert. Not dying is ample reason to worship a new god. And at this point in Judaism the world was filled with gods. The lesser gods of Abraham's God El Elyon, the Elohim (gods plural) who aided God in creation (We have made man in our image) plus all the Cannanite gods such as Chemosh the god of the Maobites who (2nd Kings verse 3) defeated a much superior Jewish military when the King sacrifices his son and his depleted forced rolls over the invading Israelites. Moses receives the ten commandments on Mount Sinai which is pictured as a volcano in the Old Testament. Volcano references cease when Moses merges Yahweh with El Elyon Abrahams God. Moses could not declare Abrahams God false and the beloved stories from Genesis abandoned so he says that they're all the same God. And now we have our hybred god. But Moses is reborn.
🔥 Οra pro nobis ☦️ משה רבינו 🔥
💓💖tear rushing into my eyes when the beautiful worship prayers heard. Thank you, priest. Lord, have mercy on us and bless us...
這是了不起的工作❤
For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen. -Romans 11:36
Gloria Tibi Domine IHΣ Χρι. ☦️
Altar looks more Western, Icons look Eastern. Very unique.
+ Holy Laurence Martyr of G☦️D intercede for us unto Christ to Grant us the Great Mercy. Amin 🔥☦️👑
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Very good.
Very old Christians 1400 years ago in China.
Very cool
+ Hagios Bonifatios Episcopos Martyr👑 Π.Υ.Η. Amin 🙏⚔️☦️⚔️🙏
Hristos A Inviat! Thank you for sharing this liturgy.
This is so cool
what a beautiful language.
I think Chinese Catholics will use this as their vernacular Mass choir.
Much love from your separated brother from the Coptic Church. Blessed Holy Week!
Beautiful
One of my favorite Hymns ever. Truly we should rejoice.
Can you post the whole chant? Or make more of these on these style? The Latin rite is beautiful, but I don’t speak Latin 😅
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Amen
American Missionaries in Western China: Can I tell you about Jesus Christ? Western Chinese Christians: I know more than you.