On the very threshold of Great Lent, the Church mentally returns us to the beginning of the world and humanity, recalling the expulsion of our first ancestors from the Garden of Eden, where they had been placed by the Creator. The forefather Adam and the wife given to him by God as “bone of his…
On Cheesefare Sunday, a Teaching of John Chrysostom on the Holy Fast Brothers, listen with understanding and discernment concerning this holy fast. For the prophet speaks about fasting: “In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee.” Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, the day of salvation…
On Cheesefare Saturday, a Teaching of John Chrysostom on Spiritual Profit The Lord said: If ye forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you; but if ye forgive not those who do evil, neither will your trespasses be forgiven (Matt. 6:14–15). By these words, the Lord God, as a loving Father, teaches us so…
On Friday of Cheesefare Week: A Teaching of Saint John Chrysostom on Spiritual Purity Let us learn, brethren, what it is that defiles a man, so that, having examined the evils, we may flee from them. For we see that many in the church hold to this custom: that they should come to church only…
On Wednesday of Cheesefare Week: A Teaching from a Spiritual Father to His Spiritual Children, from the Words of Saint John Chrysostom I desire your salvation, beloved one, and therefore I give you my blessing. You know, my son and child, born of the Spirit, that God has entrusted me with the talent of teaching…
by Metropolitan Korniliy (Titov) “The time is at hand, the beginning of spiritual struggles”—these words, brothers and sisters, we hear on the eve of the holy Great Fast. The holy Apostle Paul, in the Epistle to the Romans read today, writes: “The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast…
On this Sunday, the Church does not commemorate an event that has already taken place, but—perhaps the only time in the entire year—an event that is yet to come: the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, the end of the present world, and the Dread Judgment upon all the living and the dead. The…
On Meatfare Sunday, Concerning the Second Coming of Christ: A Teaching of John Chrysostom Brethren, the time of our salvation is near. Behold, the time of repentance draws near; behold, these are the days of purification for our souls and bodies. Here is the fearful voice, spoken by the mouth of God, concerning the dreadful…
Homily for Meatfare Sunday on the Last Judgment Matt. Reading 106, Ch. 25:31–46 “O Lord… enter not into judgment with Thy servant, for in Thy sight shall no man living be justified.” (Ps. 142) Dear brothers and sisters! We now stand at the threshold of the Great Fast, a time of preparation for eternity, for…
On Meatfare Saturday: A Homily of John Chrysostom, That One Should Not Mourn for the Dead Always, brethren, keep the day of death in your memory. Many who were with us yesterday are now no longer among us: some have departed to God, while others are ill and hastening toward death. Yet there is much…