A Voice From The Isles

Start date: October 2010 1917 minutes, 56 seconds in 163 episodes

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Fr. Gregory is Dean at the Antiochian Orthodox Deanery of the United Kingdom and Ireland and priest at St. Aidan’s Orthodox Church in Manchester.

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Date	Title & Description	Duration
Jun 17, 2013	Deified The Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ into heaven is not an isolated occurrence that befits only the Son of God. It is the promise to all those who are in Christ to ascend in and with Him to glory. Click to play	10:51
Jun 16, 2013	A Voice from the Isles Fr. Christopher remembers St Columba, founder of Iona Monastery. Click to play	15:56
Jun 15, 2013	The Spirit of Antioch The primary reason why Antioch was so important for the growth of Christianity was that in Antioch it became possible for anyone, not just Jews but anyone, to become a Christian. Click to play	13:51
May 28, 2013	Augustine and Friends Over the next two Sundays Fr. Gregory speaks about the acts of two particular Apostles or Enlighteners of England, so that we may have a clearer and deeper appreciation of the enduring characteristics of Orthodox Christian mission for our own day. Two Orthodox saints have been chosen: this week, St. Augustine of Canterbury; and next week, St. Theodore of Canterbury. Both have much to teach us. Click to play	04:33
May 27, 2013	Open Questions Find Christ where creation sings, where love reigns and where death is no more. Click to play	13:42
May 13, 2013	Trampling Down Death By Death Fr. Christopher delivers the homily on Great and Holy Pascha. Click to play	11:05
May 13, 2013	Ghost Busting St. Thomas must see to believe … he must have evidence. Jesus readily agrees to his request but then comments that there is blessedness in believing without the need for such evidence. Click to play	11:05
May 12, 2013	Pascal Letter from the Patriarch Fr. Gregory reads the 2 part letter from Patriarch John X. Click to play	20:11
May 11, 2013	Types of the Resurrection Fr. Gregory at the Vesperal Liturgy of Holy Saturday. Click to play	14:10
May 10, 2013	Communion with Christ Fr. Deacon Emmanuel at the Vesperal Liturgy of Holy Thursday.	10:52
May 01, 2013	Welcoming Christ into Jerusalem Dr. Dn. Emmanuel Kahn gives the Palm Sunday homily.	06:11
May 01, 2013	The Raising of Lazarus Fr. Christopher speaks about the raising of Lazarus from the dead by Christ.	08:56
Apr 29, 2013	Mother Maria of Paris Fr. Christopher speaks about the modern Saint, Mother Maria of Paris.	12:10
Apr 26, 2013	Radical Repentance Fr. Christopher takes a lesson from the life of St. Mary of Egypt on what it means to repent.	12:54
Apr 26, 2013	The Conversion of Saul Fr. Deacon Emmanuel gives the sermon on the Conversion of Saul to Paul the great Apostle.	14:37
Apr 26, 2013	Stairway to Heaven In his sermon on the 4th Sunday of Great Lent, Fr. Gregory says there are two chief enemies of the spiritual life, self-righteous or vainglory and despair.	13:06
Apr 19, 2013	St Peter, a Fisherman Most Wise Fr. Christopher looks at three incidents in the life of St. Peter that are instructive for our life of repentance.	13:02
Apr 19, 2013	Venerating the Cross of Christ Fr. Deacon Emmanuel gives the homily on the third Sunday of Great Lent.	16:12
Apr 06, 2013	The Repentance of the Righteous Job The story of righteous Job is an amazingly insightful account of repentance offered by a man who, ostensibly, had no need of repentance.	11:13
Apr 05, 2013	To Be Enlightened Fr. Gregory's sermon on the 2nd Sunday of Great Lent.	14:26
Apr 01, 2013	King David Repents Fr. Deacon Emmanuel is the preacher at the Liturgy of the Pre-Sanctified Gifts - Repentance Series for Great Lent. March 27 also marks the celebration of Deacon Emmanuel's 75th birthday - May God grant him many years.	12:57
Apr 01, 2013	Experiencing the Annunciation Fr. Deacon Emmanuel gives the sermon on the Feast of the Annunciation.	13:30
Apr 01, 2013	Let it Be Fr. Gregory is the homilist at the Pan-Orthodox Vespers at the Greek Cathedral in London.	14:43
Apr 01, 2013	Triumph of this Faith Fr. Christopher gives the sermon on the Triumph of Orthodoxy.	14:47
Mar 21, 2013	Salvation is Nearer to Us Now Than When We First Believed The nature of Christ’s return will be within me and within you. We are now ready to put on Christ within ourselves in how we live as baptised Orthodox Christians.	10:35
Mar 15, 2013	Choices Matter The Last Judgement is not so much about the trial as about the revelation of truth, of acts, intentions, and the nature of our being.	13:56
Mar 08, 2013	Embraced By Love Saving repentance happens when we come to our senses, to our natural state and identity as children of God made in His image and likeness. By coming back to God we return to our true self; restored to God we become fully human again with the fullness of life.	11:21
Feb 21, 2013	Don’t Bury Your Gift Fr. Gregory suggests that perhaps it is time to take stock of our own service, to consider what talents God has given us, and to take care that we use them fully.	11:59
Feb 11, 2013	Loving God and Loving Humans Sermon for 3rd February: Afterfeast of the Meeting Sermon by Deacon Emmanuel preached by Fr. Gregory at a Hierarchical Liturgy in the Church of St. Ignatios, Belfast (presiding bishop, His Grace Bishop Hanna (Berlin).	13:43
Feb 09, 2013	Come Down, Zacchaeus Fr. Gregory preaches on the story of Zacchaeus and his determination to see Jesus.	14:54
Jan 25, 2013	Taking Our Stand Fr. Christopher is the homilist today and he says that historically Christianity has not picked fights but we do know when to draw the line.	10:24
Jan 22, 2013	Equipping the Saints Fr. Dcn. Emmanuel gives the homily from the Epistle to the Ephesians.	14:15
Jan 15, 2013	The Song of Salvation The Faithful at St. Aidan's celebrate a baptism and Fr. Gregory teaches on the significance of the Troparion for the Feast of Theophany.	15:28
Jan 04, 2013	Zeal for the Lord Fr. Gregory preaches on the healthy and unhealthy forms of zeal.	15:26
Dec 30, 2012	Gregory the Theologian on the Incarnation Fr. Gregory reads a sermon by St. Gregory the Theologian on the Incarnation of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.	06:35
Dec 29, 2012	See, Listen, Act Fr. Christopher reminds us that St. Joseph and the Theotokos were confronted with far more challenges in their lives than any of us are ever likely to experience. However, their responses to those immense challenges offer us responses from which we can learn.	14:26
Dec 28, 2012	The Blessing on the Righteous The Orthodox Church has always regarded the saints of the Old Testament as saints as much as any born after Christ.	17:55
Dec 20, 2012	Being Invited to the Kingdom Banquet Father Deacon Emmanuel gives the homily on the banquet story in Luke 14.	11:47
Dec 11, 2012	Mother’s Song Fr. Gregory Hallam's sermon on the feast of the conception of the most holy Theotokos by the righteous Anna.	12:51
Dec 03, 2012	Come Into The Light Anything that separates us from God is bad no matter how big or small it is in our eyes. The most difficult sins to uproot are those we keep covered up in darkness because we are reluctant, for whatever reason, to expose them to the Light, which is Christ.	10:10
Nov 29, 2012	Christ and and the Rich Man The rich Pharisee in the gospel couldn’t make it. He couldn’t grow up. He couldn’t leave behind the letter of Jewish law to find the spirit of Jewish life. We can grow up. We can move from a focus on the letter of Orthodox law into the reality of living our lives to the full as Orthodox Christians.	10:57
Nov 27, 2012	Making An Entry Fr. Gregory uses the example of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple to instruct on how we should enter church for worship.	09:32
Nov 08, 2012	Angels in Action This week there is an important feast celebrating the Archangel Michael and the angel Gabriel and six other angels.	12:47
Nov 08, 2012	Draw Near With Faith And Love The outcast woman receives healing demonstrating the power of our Lord and the power of prayer.	10:49
Oct 26, 2012	Spot Changes for a Leopard Let us take hope that, acquainted as we are with our sin and weakness, God can make a wonderful work of glory from the raw material of our brokenness.	11:58
Oct 22, 2012	Meeting God at the Icon Every icon is a mediator, a means of reconciling each of us to God.	11:04
Oct 15, 2012	Giving to Live Church teaching is that every human being is loved by God, is unique and a special person. We are called to love each other as Christ loves us.	11:54
Oct 07, 2012	Therefore Be Merciful When we are commanded by our Lord to be merciful even as our Heavenly Father is merciful this means that we must try by an entire reliance on God and His grace to become in this world as God is in this world, merciful.	12:20
Sep 22, 2012	The Birth of the Theotokos Fr. Dn. Christopher preaches on the Nativity of the Theotokos.	11:33
Sep 15, 2012	Mother and Son Why is it vital to confess Mary as Theotokos, God-bearer such that one cannot truly be a Christian and deny that?	15:20
Sep 11, 2012	In the Steps of St. Aidan Fr. Dn. Christopher preaches on the life of St. Aidan, the Patron Saint of the parish in Manchester.	13:25
Aug 30, 2012	I Am If we can say to ourselves with St Paul, “I am what I am”, and at the same time acknowledge the reality that Christ died and was resurrected then we will be living out that reality that St Paul sets for each of us in his Letter to the Philippians, Chapter 2, verse 13, “for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure”.	09:59
Aug 29, 2012	Of Holy Women In the Afterfeast of the Dormition of the the Theotokos, we are mindful of the fact that it is a woman, the blessed ever-Virgin Mary, whom the Orthodox and indeed others venerate as the most honoured and significant of Christians.	14:43
Aug 28, 2012	Growing Our Faith How can I increase my faith? There is no way I can encourage you to increase your faith in Our Lord Jesus Christ unless I first increase my faith in Him.	09:15
Aug 22, 2012	The Dormition of the Theotokos Fr. Gregory's homily on the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos.	10:07
Aug 21, 2012	St. Athanasius on the Transfiguration Fr. Gregory Hallam brings the homily on the Feast of the Transfiguration.	06:52
Aug 07, 2012	Listen, Trust, and Obey Christ had complete power over the forces of nature and could transcend them. It follows that His actions on earth were entirely voluntary. His truly endured the cross as a voluntary action.	11:00
Aug 01, 2012	The Bread of Life Have no thought for tomorrow for day by day God will provide His bread and His wine and none shall hunger or thirst any more.	13:31
Jul 19, 2012	Christ Offers His Love, Forgiveness and Healing Forgiveness is waiting for us NOW when we turn to Christ. Use the help that is available and let us carry each other in love and prayer as we all strive to a greater perfection.	13:26
Jul 11, 2012	A Common Work God alone is perfectly righteous but by His grace we are also able to acquire our own righteousness through active participation in and collaboration with Him.	13:55
Jul 10, 2012	The Centurion Who Believed in Christ Subdeacon Emmanuel gives the homily on the belief of the Centurion.	07:35
Jun 30, 2012	St Peter and St Paul Resolve a Problem Fr. Dn. Christopher speaks on the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul.	10:37
Jun 19, 2012	The Call In this Gospel according to St Matthew, Christ sets out His plan for four people—the brothers Simon and Andrew, and the brothers, James and John, the fishermen from two families, living in the town of Capernaum. Christ’s plan for these fishermen consists of a request and a promise.	12:08
Jun 12, 2012	The Saints Who Reign On High On the Sunday of All Saints, we are reminded to honour them in our generation that others by their example, fellowship and prayers may also become Friends of God.	11:58
Jun 11, 2012	What To Do With Power In his sermon on Pentecost, Fr. Gregory says we have the promise of Christ that if we pray and wait on the power of God, the Holy Spirit will descend upon us.	11:05
Jun 01, 2012	Deified The Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ into heaven is not an isolated occurrence that befits only the Son of God. It is the promise to all those who are in Christ to ascend in and with Him to glory.	12:44
May 28, 2012	Humanity Ascended In the Ascension our humanity is taken up in Christ’s to the heavenly places. He came to earth that we might be raised up to heaven	08:08
May 23, 2012	Seeing Clearly We are all called to a personal relationship with the Lord, but first of all, we must recognize that “Jesus Christ is the Lord” – our Lord. To achieve this, we need to have Him cure the blindness of our spiritual eyes, and this calls for an act of loving submission of our wills unto Him.	12:42
May 17, 2012	Unexpected Light Fr. Gregory speaks about the Woman at the Well who we know as St. Photini. As surely as Photini means “enlightened” it is our calling also to enlighten others with the Light of Christ.	11:13
May 11, 2012	Paralytics All Christ our God gave the paralytic a choice, and respected his free will, when He asked him:- “Do you want to be healed?”. As always, He asks the same question of each one of us.	14:22
Apr 28, 2012	Unlocked Doors Jesus Christ understood that both the disciples and us would be puzzled about how to react to Him after the crucifixion. What did Jesus do? He told the apostle St Thomas and us: “Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here with your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believe.” And the apostle St Thomas was empowered by this remarkable encounter with Jesus Christ to overcome unbelief and to say to Jesus: “My Lord and my God.”	11:28
Apr 21, 2012	Bishop John’s Paschal Letter The Pascha pastoral letter was read from His Eminence Metropolitan John, Archbishop of the Antiochian Orthodox Deanery of the United Kingdom and Ireland.	05:54
Apr 20, 2012	Pascha in the West and the East Fr. Gregory reads the sermon "Pascha in the West and the East" by His Eminence, Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos.	11:15
Apr 20, 2012	One With Christ Subdeacon Emmanuel gives the homily on Great and Holy Thursday.	10:21
Apr 11, 2012	Total Recall The entry to Jerusalem was a liturgical act; it was the entry into the great holy city of Israel by her rightful King and welcomed by the people as the fulfilling of national hope. Yet it is also proved to be a great disappointment.	10:39
Apr 09, 2012	Come Forth Fr. Gregory preaches on the raising of Lazarus from the dead and the significance of the power of the Logos to create life.	11:32
Apr 09, 2012	Blessedness in Persecution In this final sermon on the Beatitudes, Fr. Gregory says that persecution can be an occasion of great blessedness.	08:28
Apr 08, 2012	Asking Jesus We sometimes approach God and say, “I want you to do whatever I ask.” Does it work?	10:55
Apr 01, 2012	Peacemaking The great theme of Lent is repentance. That is the turning of our minds and hearts to God. The fact is that we can only do this through the work of Christ. He is the great Peace-Maker; He makes our repentance possible by His reconciling work.	14:30
Mar 27, 2012	The 2nd Eve - The Annunciation of the Mother of God The Theotokos stands for the whole biblical way of looking at the relationship between God and His creation as a mystery of LOVE.	11:11
Mar 26, 2012	The Cross in Sorrow Psalm 1 and the Beatitudes both seek to understand the challenging question, ‘Who will be blessed and what does it mean to be blessed?’	14:37
Mar 26, 2012	Before Thy Cross The Cross turns all our expectations on their heads; this is God, who is also fully human, suffering and showing utter love to His creatures.	13:40
Mar 17, 2012	His Mercy Endures Forever This is the fulfilment of our divine vocation on earth ... to be the people of the covenant, ever relating to the trustworthy God with loving faith and to all people with that very self-same love with which He both loves us and loves all.	11:51
Mar 16, 2012	Drawing Close to Christ We each would like to be close to Our Lord Jesus Christ, but when we see many others gathered around Him we are not sure how to place ourselves in a situation in which we, just like the sick man, can be close to Jesus Christ.	11:53
Mar 13, 2012	Humility Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.	13:11
Mar 12, 2012	Of Whom the World Was Not Worthy The normal experience of being a Christian is both joy and struggle. There is a deep joy in knowing Christ but also a struggle against demonically inspired forces of violence and rebellion, inside us and outside us.	10:08
Mar 02, 2012	The Cross in Repentance The first in a series of Wednesday sermons during Great Lent on the topic of the Beatitudes.	12:33
Mar 01, 2012	Lenten Call Man can achieve true delight and true immortality through the grace of God. The reason for our existence is communion with God.	17:34
Feb 23, 2012	The Big Ask The Fathers of the Church are very clear that it is not God who separates himself from sinners and punishes them but rather sinners themselves who, through their own bad choices, separate themselves from the Lord and experience in that separation the sufferings of hell, darkness and despair.	15:21
Feb 20, 2012	Prodigal Son The guest preacher was Fr. Yves Dubois with a sermon on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son.	10:09
Feb 08, 2012	O, To Be a Publican Fr. Gregory gives a sermon on the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee.	09:35
Feb 04, 2012	Responding to the Light A sermon on the Feast of the Entry of Christ into the Temple.	12:22
Feb 03, 2012	Facing Our Needs Jesus Christ reaches out to each of us in 2012, just as He did 2,000 years ago. However, he does not always give us immediately what we ask for as soon as we ask for His help in our lives.	11:35
Jan 30, 2012	Zacchaeus – from a sermon of St. John Maximovitch Lessons from the story of Zacchaeus.	10:57
Jan 20, 2012	The Preaching of Christ We have to examine our own lives in relation to the reality that the preaching of Jesus has now begun. We can listen to that preaching of Jesus today in each of our lives.	12:41
Jan 19, 2012	One Out Of Ten In the Gospel account, Christ healed the ten lepers by His word, but their healing was conditional upon their obedience. They had to respond for the healing to take effect.	09:42
Jan 18, 2012	Call of the Deep Today Christ is baptised in the Jordan, the Spirit alights on Him in the form of a dove and the Voice of the Father from heaven is heard …. “This is my beloved Son with whom I am well pleased.”	08:53
Jan 05, 2012	Resolution or Revolution Fr. Gregory says that we don't need a New Year's resolution but rather a New Year's revolution.	08:04
Jan 02, 2012	The Great Restoration The Nativity is a present reality for us Orthodox Christians. It’s not just that we celebrate a past event now; there’s more to it than that. Christ is eternally born for all generations in the same way that he is both referred to in the Scriptures as “slain from the foundation of the world” (Revelation 13:8] and also eternally risen and alive in the Cosmos.	09:59
Dec 31, 2011	One To Come Fr. Dn. Christopher gives the sermon on the eve of Nativity.	12:19
Dec 16, 2011	Holy Forefathers Fr. Gregory gives a sermon by Fr. Andrew Phillips on the Sunday of the Forefathers.	08:15
Dec 07, 2011	The Law of Love Love is the basis of the Law. In fact loving God is what obedience to the Law is about, and to those struggling to live under the Old Covenant, it still is.	11:17
Nov 30, 2011	Leaving it Behind Jesus is challenging us today to follow Him with a deeper commitment, just as He challenged the rich, young man who ran up to question him 2,000 years ago	13:33
Nov 16, 2011	Attending to the Samaritan Fr. Gregory gives a sermon on the parable of the Good Samaritan.	12:38
Nov 10, 2011	Friendship With The Saints We are saved by Christ as part of the Church and our fellow members of the Body of Christ support us both practically and in their prayers. The prayers of the holy people of God are a ferocious weapon in our defence.	13:10
Nov 02, 2011	Almsgiving The central importance for the Christian life is almsgiving … helping the poor and those in need.	09:50
Oct 27, 2011	The Icon of the Theotokos of the Sign Subdeacon Immanuel speaks about the new fresco Icon of the Theotokos of the Sign written by Efrem Carrasco on the wall behind the altar at St Aidan’s Antiochian Orthodox Church in Levenshulme, Manchester.	12:05
Oct 19, 2011	The True Image If we want to know what our humanity is like and can truly become we need to look at that perfect Undistorted Image which is Christ. Looking at him we shall not descend into destructive narcissism but rather ascend, utterly transformed and beautified by the Holy Spirit, to the Father.	10:43
Oct 12, 2011	On God’s Terms Perhaps it seems capricious and arbitrary of God to deal one way with one situation and remain distant in another; but to demand to know why God does certain things and not others is to demand that He should be answerable to us.	11:36
Oct 05, 2011	Kingdom Living If we are to live effectively in the power of God, if we are to know his power to save even in adverse circumstances; then we must listen to him now and do His will, not put it off, not make excuses.	15:55
Sep 27, 2011	On Being Called What happens after we have worked hard, done our best and achieved nothing?	12:23
Sep 20, 2011	Losing It What did Jesus mean when He said to take up our cross and follow Him? Fr. Gregory teaches about the principle of losing ourselves to gain Christ.	09:52
Sep 13, 2011	The Healing Cross Dn. Christopher gives the homily and says that Christ has destroyed death and the power of evil; he dealt with it in His passion. We have to repent to allow this salvation to work within us.	08:40
Sep 11, 2011	Happy New Year! Fr. Gregory Hallam reflects on the new liturgical year and three mighty manifestations of the Divine Glory.	11:08
Aug 22, 2011	Increase Our Faith What does it mean to have faith and how can we increase it?	08:44
Aug 18, 2011	Hope in Our Lady Fr. Dn. Christopher speaks about the Dormition of the Theotokos.	07:39
Aug 15, 2011	Walking Without Fear It is fear that hinders our walk with God.	14:00
Aug 13, 2011	Give To Receive Deacon Christopher is the speaker today and talks about God doing great things with scarce resources.	13:12
Aug 01, 2011	Keeping it Personal Christianity is a personal affair. It is not abstract, theoretical, a speculative philosophy. It is a personal encounter with the living God who is himself three persons sharing one divine nature.	10:59
Jul 27, 2011	Grow Up! Sub Deacon Immanuel is the homilist today. There is a light that wants to shine on us. However, it can only shine brightly if we move with Jesus from our childhood homes where we grew up to our present homes where we can now grow into being disciples of Jesus Christ.	12:04
Jul 19, 2011	The Light of the World We are called to be lights in the world. We are the representatives of Christ in the world today, so of course we take on the role of being light to the world.	08:30
Jul 13, 2011	Be Light St. Symeon teaches that when we pray, the indwelling Light of Christ can lift us up to the very Paradise itself of which St. Paul himself haltingly spoke.	13:20
Jun 30, 2011	Saints Alive Subdeacon Immanuel is the homilist and speaks about the celebration of the saints of Britain and Ireland as well as all saints abroad.	12:24
Jun 24, 2011	Loving Christ As He Is Deacon Christopher is the homilist today. He says we must be careful to respond to people as they are and in particular we must be aware that Christ is not to be fitted into some expectations of ours. We need to know Him as He is.	10:23
Jun 14, 2011	Power and Fruit How does the Orthodox Church understand the Person and Work of the Holy Spirit?	13:57
Jun 07, 2011	Not Quite God There is one key issue that we now face in the post-Christian west. In so far as many people believe that there is a God they take the divine to be a simple, abstract, impersonal force	16:22
Jun 03, 2011	Going Up Perhaps nothing in the Christian Church has been more misunderstood in the modern age than the Ascension.	09:10
Jun 01, 2011	Looking Intently Sub Deacon Immanuel gives the homily on the Sunday of the Blind Man.	07:40
May 16, 2011	From Paralysis to Action Dn. Christopher is the guest homilist for the Sunday of the Paralytic.	08:17
May 11, 2011	Grief Gives Way To Joy The Holy Myrrh Bearing Women were the first to proclaim the risen Christ to their incredulous male counterparts.	07:36
Apr 27, 2011	Free At Last Deacon Christopher is the homilist on Great and Holy Saturday.	07:39
Apr 27, 2011	Keeping Watch With Christ Sub Deacon Emanuel is the homilist for the Great and Holy Thursday service.	07:25
Apr 24, 2011	A Personal and Social Resurrection Fr. Gregory encourages us to live the joy of the resurrection all year round.	10:00
Apr 19, 2011	Cursed No More Why did our Lord have to suffer and die? We cannot conclude with the benefit of hindsight that this was simply what He had to endure to make the resurrection possible. Orthodox Christianity insists that there is necessary meaning in both the death and resurrection of our Lord.	08:29
Apr 11, 2011	Hope in the Desert Today's sermon is given by Dn. Christopher speaking about Saint Mary of Egypt, one of the greatest examples of personal repentance that we have.	10:40
Mar 31, 2011	Venerate the Cross We need the perspective of the Cross in the midst of Great Lent in order to remind ourselves of the goal of that journey that we undertake through fasting, repentance, almsgiving and prayer. It is that we might come to the beginning of Great and Holy Week with a Godly intention to know nothing else but "Christ and him crucified."	11:42
Mar 25, 2011	When We Suffer According to St. Bede, God uses our suffering to stimulate our fortitude, faith, humility, repentance and vigilance.	11:28
Mar 16, 2011	Overcoming the World The faith that overcomes the world is the true faith, Orthodoxy, not heterodoxy or otherwise believing.	10:59
Mar 07, 2011	Why Do We Fast? When did fasting begin? Did Jesus start the whole thing off? The righteous and the repentant fasted in the Old Testament. Well, what about Abraham then? The fact is, humankind was taught to fast right from the very beginning, in the Garden of Eden.	12:56
Mar 02, 2011	The Last Judgement and the Love of God In our lives, crucial choices have to be made and upon these choices our eternal destiny depends.	12:15
Feb 21, 2011	Merciful Father Although commonly known as the parable of the prodigal son this story in the gospel today is misnamed. It should rather be called: “the parable of the merciful Father” for the story concentrates all its attention on the compassion of the father.	12:10
Feb 18, 2011	The New Martyrs of Russia Fr. Gregory welcomes Fr. Yves Dubois as the guest preacher today.	16:18
Feb 07, 2011	Crumbs Are Enough How do we react, what do we do when we pray and God doesn't answer?	07:34
Feb 05, 2011	Waiting For God The aged Simeon and the prophetess Hannah were so incredibly blessed to behold the infant Christ, 40 days after his birth, and receive him into the Temple in Jerusalem.	07:26
Jan 31, 2011	The Other Three Wise Men We all know about the Three Wise Men who came to worship Christ in the cave, but today we celebrate other Three Wise Men: St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory the Theologian and St. John Chrysostom.	13:10
Jan 28, 2011	Calling on the Lord Great need calls out great faith.	13:48
Jan 18, 2011	The Gift Beyond All Gifts The greatest gift, the Gift beyond all gifts, is the Gift of God Himself in our Lord Jesus Christ. In the Divine Liturgy, that gift of Himself becomes something as basic as food and drink.	07:38
Jan 12, 2011	Water Water Everywhere Father Gregory speaks about the significance of water in his homily for the Feast of Theophany.	10:59
Jan 12, 2011	Preparing the Way (Sunday after Theophany) We are to point to Christ and not ourselves as we prepare the way for others to receive Him; we decrease that Christ might be glorified in and through us.	10:27
Jan 03, 2011	The Flight From Egypt St Matthew sees the flight into Egypt as the fulfilment of Hosea’s prophecy.	08:11
Dec 31, 2010	All That is Human, All That is God God came to earth to undo the ravages of sin and death. He could only do this by taking upon himself our flesh.	13:11
Dec 15, 2010	God’s RSVP The banquet table is set and the invitation is from God Himself. How will we respond?	07:57
Dec 07, 2010	The Big One What is the most important question of all time? Fr. Gregory addresses that in today's episode.	10:50
Nov 30, 2010	Doing Battle Fr. Gregory speaks about the spiritual warfare we all face as Christians.	11:39
Nov 22, 2010	Ready For God Fr. Gregory speaks about the feast of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple.	09:45
Nov 16, 2010	Chariots of Fire Fr. Gregory speaks about St. Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch.	13:40
Nov 08, 2010	Christ Our Peace Christ gives peace but more importantly He IS our Peace.	09:56
Nov 01, 2010	A Winter’s Tale Fr. Gregory's sermon for October 31 is on neo-paganism and how it is reflected in Halloween.	20:47
Oct 27, 2010	Deliver Us Fr. Gregory speaks on the Gerasene demoniac and possession by evil spirits.	12:05
Oct 25, 2010	Matter Matters Fr. Gregory speaks on the 7th Ecumenical Council.	11:11
Oct 21, 2010	The Sparrow in the Hall Fr. Gregory talks about St. Paulinas of York - one of our wonderful western saints.	10:57
Oct 20, 2010	The Deep Fr. Gregory speaks on Luke 5:4-7 when Jesus told Simon to "Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch."	13:38
Oct 12, 2010	Love Your Enemies Fr. Gregory speaks on Luke 6:31-36.	12:44
Oct 05, 2010	Indwelling: Gal 2:20 - I have been crucified with Christ. St Paul startles us by claiming that he has someone living inside him; moreover this person is Christ. But it doesn't stop there! Christ is able to live inside him because he has died, or rather he has been crucified with Christ.	11:59