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  And this is Eternal Life

  August 1, 2016

  And this is Eternal Life... that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent and that they may be one, and they might have (Jesus) joy fulfilled in themselves. Exegesis of the High Priestly prayer, with emphasis on Christology what it means to us - that is - how should we live, what should we value, what are we to become? About being made in the image of God. Differences between man and

  
  

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  At Daniel’s Funeral

  June 28, 2017

  Remarks at the funeral of Daniel Holland (+Sunday of All Saints, 2017), from his father. His deep heart, and how and why we pray for the dead, and how we should remember him. It is with actions, not words.

  
  

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  Parable of the Harvest of the Rich Man. What is life and what is death?

  December 7, 2015

  What was his greatest sin? It was not greed or not caring for the poor. It was something more basic than that. We must learn to know what is life, and what is death. If God is an abstraction to us, we take our own counsel as the rich man did, and choose death over life.

  
  

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  The resurrection is not only in the future

  June 29, 2017

  The Gospel for the dead, which is read on Tuesday and Saturday, teaches emphatically that the resurrection is not only a future event. Remarks at one of the "40 days" liturgies for +Daniel, my son. John 5:24-30

  
  

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  Names of Jesus

  Jesus - The Life

  November 13, 2009

  Fr. Thomas has explored Jesus as the Way, the Truth, and now, the Life. What does life mean and how is Christ identified as THE life?

  
  

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  March 18, 2012: Mark 8:34-9:1, Read for Older Children

  March 12, 2012

  
  

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  October 11, 2012

  Philippians 1:20-27; Luke 9:7-11.

  
  

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  June 22, 2009

  Romans 7:1-13; Matthew 9:36-10:8.

  
  

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  The Path

  November 1, 2013

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  Fr. Seraphim Holland

  October 28, 2014

  
  

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  Holy stubbornness and disobedience! Gotta have it, or you have nothing!

  October 14, 2015

  We modern Christians give up too easily. The saints of the Scriptures did not give up. They had things in their life that they chose to make "non-negotiable." We must too. We look at the examples of Elisha, Ruth, and the Apostle Peter. If we do not have non-negotiable things in our lives, we have no life. "As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee." "Whithersoever thou goest, I will go, and wheresoever thou

  
  

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  According to His purpose

  February 8, 2016

  First, a short telling of the life of the Holy New Martyr of Russia Priest Nicholas Prozorov, who was martyred on the eve of Transfiguration, (1930) on this day remembering all the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia. His martyric feat has a direct link to the words of the Epistle read today for the martyrs. We explain what Christian belief is. It is not what the world thinks belief is, and this belief is directly responsible for the courage of

  
  

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  How Death Unlocks Life (Sermon May 15, 2016)

  May 16, 2016

  On this Sunday of the Myrrh-bearers, Fr. Andrew describes how death and other major life transitions present the opportunity to remake our lives, with the loosening up of previously locked relationships and ways of thinking.

  
  

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  The Path

  October 28, 2016

  Philippians 1:27-2:4; Luke 11:23-26.

  
  

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  Stony insensibility, faith, humility, love (St. Mary of Egypt and St. Nectarios)

  April 3, 2017

  A synthesis of the two Gospels read today (Mark 10:32-45 and then Luke 7:36-50), and two saints very similar in essence, although different in external life: Mary of Egypt, and Nectarios of Aegina. In proving their similarity, we discuss the sin of "stony insensibility," and that we MUST suffer if we are to be true Christians (and what this suffering ALWAYS must entail, regardless of whether we suffer in any "physical" or other ways, such as the martyrs, St. Mary

  
  

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  The Importance of the Wedding Garment

  September 11, 2017

  The Gospel reading for today is about the parable of the Wedding feast and the wedding garment, and therefore applies completely to the baptism of Mary today. How do we put on this garment? How do we keep it on, and just as important, how do we keep it clean? What is the outer darkness, the weeping and gnashing of teeth? What is repentance, and how is it related to the wedding garment? Were we made to fear Hell, or

  
  

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  Fire in the Belly!

  May 14, 2018

  All of the Sundays of Pascha, from Thomas Sunday, the Myrrh-bearing women, the Paralytic, the Samaritan woman and the Blind man, have compelling stories, with a unifying theme: You must have fire in your belly! Whether we are beset by ignorance, sins, confusion - whatever - none of this will matter if we have fire in our belly! All these stories who how God reacts to our desire, and overcomes our problems.

  
  

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  Praying for the dead shows that we look to the heavenly world and not earthly things

  March 2, 2019

  Fr. Seraphim Holland shares some reflections on one of the hymns for Meatfare Saturday, and the selection from 1 Thessalonians which talks about us being with the Lord after the second coming, and prayer for the dead. The hymn which he refers to is this: "Why does man deceive himself and boast? / Why does he trouble himself in vain? / For he is earth, and soon to the earth he will return. / Why does the dust not reflect that it is formed

  
  

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  The word is nigh thee even in thy mouth

  July 22, 2019

  Fr. Seraphim Holland discusses three rhetorical questions that are asked in today’s readings that we must strive to answer. "Who will ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above)" "Who will descend into the abyss? (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead)" "What have we to do with you, Jesus, you Son of God?" Paul’s answer to these rhetorical questions is that we must live an intimate life with God, so that "The

  
  

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  The Simplicity of the Gospel

  September 8, 2007

  We must never lose sight of the simplicity of the Gospel, and its far-reaching consequences for everyday life.

  
  

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  Glory to God

  To Tell the Truth

  July 3, 2010

  Fr. Stephen looks at telling the truth as a matter that goes to the heart of our true existence.

  
  

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  Humanity Ascended

  May 28, 2012

  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

  
  

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  August 23, 2011

  2 Corinthians 2:14-3:3; Matthew 23:23-28.

  
  

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  The Path

  May 08, 2008

  Acts 4:23-31; John 5:24-30.

  
  

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  The Path

  May 1, 2014

  Acts 4:23-31; John 5:24-30.

  
  

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  The Path

  March 12, 2015

  Genesis 7:11-8:3; Proverbs 10:1-22.

  
  

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  Revelation 22:1-2

  December 4, 2015

  
  

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  St. Gregory Palamas teaches the main difference between Orthodox and other Christian confessions

  March 28, 2016

  On the second Sunday of Great Lent, we celebrate the memory of St. Gregory Palamas. More than any other Father, he is known for teaching about the uncreated Divine Light of God. His teaching demarcates a huge gulf between Orthodox and the other Christian confessions. First, a minute of history, then illustrate his teaching, which is centered on the Incarnation, using part of the reading for the Sunday from Hebrews, and then continuing with the words of St. Paul which

  
  

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  The problem of anxiety and the cure for it

  July 11, 2016

  There is a link between bad desires, and weak faith and anxiety. Exposition of Matthew 6:22-33 and Romans 5:1, particularly: "The light of the body is the eye," "seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you," and "being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." As in any short talk, all solutions are not discussed. There is an organic cause for anxiety, but no

  
  

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  Our precious ideas challenged - Healing of the woman with an infirmity of 18 years

  December 12, 2016

  There should have been TWO healings when the woman with an infirmity of 18 years was healed! The ruler of the synagogue should have been healed of his "precious opinions." Why was he not healed? What must we do to be healed? Luke 13:10-17

  
  

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  Our Own Sins

  May 29, 2017

  A homily by Papa Demetrios Carellas. A very practical exegesis of John 17:3: "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." First, a discussion of where the truth it - only in the church, and then, practical advice about how to live according to this truth, in our daily lives - think ONLY about our own sins, JUSTIFY the other person ALWAYS, and DO NOT jump to conclusions,

  
  

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  What shall I do?

  December 4, 2017

  What shall I do? That was the question of the rich man who had a great harvest. The Scripture talks about "what we should do" today, in both the Epistle and the Gospel. They mention an incredible gift and incredible privilege. The Apostle Paul especially shows the greatest motivation a man can have for knowing what to do and doing it - that we can become "all goodness and righteousness and truth", and in making manifest these things, become light

  
  

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  Transfiguration taught in Dachau

  August 20, 2018

  Fr. Seraphim Holland tells of an experience by St. Nikolai Velomirovich in Dachau concentration camp that teaches us the most important and primary meaning of the Transfiguration. If we believe this, truly believe it, it will change everything we do, think, say and care about.

  
  

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  The Road to Emmaus: our hearts must burn too

  April 30, 2019

  Fr. Seraphim Holland shares that the Resurrectional Gospel from Luke about the encounter of Jesus Christ with two of His disciples on the road to Emmaus is read on Bright Tuesday. He discusses why this is read, even though the Gospel of John is read for almost every other day in the Pascha period, and that this encounter must be like our life. Our hearts must also burn. What is this "burning"?

  
  

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  Dormition: the good part, the mind of the Church, and holiness

  August 15, 2019

  Fr. Seraphim Holland gives an explanation of the Gospel and the Epistle read on a feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos. We emphasize the good part, the mind of the church, and holiness.

  
  

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  March 22, 2009: Mark 8:34-9:1, Read for Older Children

  March 16, 2009

  
  

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  March 23, 2014: Mark 8:34-9:1, Read for Older Children

  March 17, 2014

  
  

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  The Path

  June 07, 2010

  Romans 7:1-13; Matthew 9:36-10:8.

  
  

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  The Path

  March 12, 2007

  Genesis 8:21-9:7; Proverbs 11:19-12:6.

  
  

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  Lighting Candles

  October 4, 2014

  We don't light candles in Church. Here's why.

  
  

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  The Path

  August 11, 2015

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  Emmanuel: God is with us

  January 4, 2016

  The primary meaning of Nativity may be summed by the name "Emmanuel," God is with us. We talk about prayer and its one main purpose, and also the liturgy and all prayer in the church. It is to have God be with us, to be in his presence and even with Him in us. We should experience God, more than when we experience the sun when we are in its presence. Everything we do should be to experience God and

  
  

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  The Ladder of Divine Ascent: Step 08.04 - Remembrance of wrongs warps our reality

  April 13, 2016

  Remembrance of wrongs warps our reality. We can fight it with the Jesus prayer.

  
  

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  Our belief in Christ is not cheap

  September 26, 2016

  Sunday before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. First a quick summary about the Parable to the Wedding Feast, so that we can discuss the concept of the wedding garment in the context of the pre-festal scripture read: "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature" and "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." This latter

  
  

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  Overview of the common theme in the Gospels for the five Sundays preceding Great Lent

  January 28, 2017

  Simply put, for the Christian who has faith and EFFORT, even his small amount of good will always beat bad.

  
  

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  How to give five loaves and two fish to everyone

  July 31, 2017

  We must give what we have. We all have at least five loaves and two fish. We must have open and soft hearts and see the people who need something, and give them what we have. The Lord will make things multiply. A practical, moral look at the miracle of the feeding of the 5,000, and the actions of the woman who was a "sinner." Matthew 14:14-22 and Luke 7:36-50

  
  

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  How to Come to Ourself and Present Ourselves before God

  February 5, 2018

  The Sunday of the Prodigal Son presents us an instruction manual for how to live during Great Lent, which is fast approaching, and how to pray and present ourselves before God. We focus on the parables teaching about delusion and how to think of ourselves and pray to God.

  
  

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  What have I to offer God?

  December 3, 2018

  Fr. Seraphim Holland answers the questions, "Why would God want to have communion with me? What have I to offer God?" The answer is in the parable of the Good Samaritan

  
  

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  The Morning Offering

  The Mystery of Mysteries

  June 10, 2019

  
  

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  The Holy Eucharist is clearly explained in the Sixth Chapter of John

  November 18, 2019

  Does the Bible teach about Holy Communion? Fr. Seraphim Holland examines the clear teaching in John Chapter 6. He talks about signs, and symbols, and controversy about the Holy Eucharist, which is directly addressed by Jesus, the progression that must be present in the spiritual life, and what to do about the mundane, and how to work the works of God. Everything is important.

  
  

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