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Sermon on the Sunday of Thomas
“Аlthough we do not see the Saviour with bodily eyes, let us begin to look at Him with the eyes of faith, fulfilling His holy commandments”.
Sermon on Great Saturday
“The events of the Passion of the Lord pass before us, and all that happened to Him because of His love for people”.
Sermon on the Great Thursday
“Let us remember that preparation for Communion begins immediately after the previous Communion, since our whole life consists in it – life, directed to salvation, spent in prayer and fasting, in good deeds and repentance”.
Sermon for the Fifth Sunday of Great Lent
“Indeed, what kind of salvation would it be, if God Himself would keep His laws, but man would remain unclean from sin?”
Sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent
“Let us pay attention to the behaviour of the father, who first turned not to the Saviour, but to His disciples”.
Sermon for the Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross
“Since ancient times the Cross had been foreshadowed in the form of images contained in the Holy Scriptures”.
Sermon for the Second Sunday of Great Lent
“Let us try, brethren, to make our fasting and prayer not fruitless”.
Sermon for the Sunday of Orthodoxy
“Faith is more necessary for us than anything else – any knowledge, arts, various earthly goods, no matter how useful and necessary these may seem to us”.
Sermon for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son
I”n his parables the Lord tells us about the innermost secrets of spiritual life and the ways of gaining the Kingdom of Heaven”.
Sermon for the Sunday of a Tax Collector and a Pharisee
“Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector”.
Sermon for the Sunday of Zacchaeus the tax collector
Jesus, walking around the earth to perform our salvation, entered Jericho accompanied by a multitude of people. Among the inhabitants of Jericho there was a certain Zacchaeus.
Sermon for the Feast of the Appearance of the Theódorovskaya Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God
“During her earthly life, the Most Holy Mother of God experienced many hardships and calamities, she knows very well the scarcity of human strength and the depth of human weakness”.
Sermon for the Feast of the Appearance of the Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God
“More than a hundred miracle-working icons of the Most Holy Mother of God were revealed by the Lord in Russia”.
Sermon for the Day of Commemoration of Holy Glorious and Worthy of All Praise Highest Apostles Peter and Paul
“Christ gathered His disciples and announced to them the message of new life, of victory over evil and of eternal joy, and sent them to all ends of the universe to proclaim the Good News of the Gospel”.
Sermon for the Feast of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God
“She has greatness and piety, honour and power of Archangels and Angels, She is shown love and reverence by all the saints who have shone from the beginning of time”.
Sermon for the Nativity of Honourable and Glorious Prophet and Forerunner, Baptiser of the Lord John
“Many wondrous and glorious things are said in the Gospel about John the Forerunner”.
Sermon for the Day of Commemoration of Holy Great Martyr and Victory-bearer George
“The lofty deeds of great martyr George and other martyrs teach us to love Lord Jesus Christ even to death”.
Sermon for the Feast of the Vladimir Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God
“How much joy for us Christians is brought by the remembrance of the greatness of the Mother of God, our Intercessor and Advocate before God”.
Sermon on the Day of Commemoration of the Forty Martyrs of Sebasteia
“The forty glorious martyrs whom the Church glorifies today had separate bodies, but they had, as it were, a single soul in concord and unanimity of unshakable faith”.
Sermon for the Day of Commemoration of the Three Holy Hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom
“Our Orthodox faith, which was preached by Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom, is the only true path to salvation”.
