Meditation of His Eminence Archbishop NICOLAE at the start of Great Lent 2009
Ten weeks before Pascha, the Orthodox Church enters the Triodion, a season completely set apart in the ecclesiastical year. It is a preparation in different ste...
Tag: Theology
Sunday of the Prodigal Son
Sermon Audio Through the parable of today’s Gospel, our Saviour has set forth three things for us: the condition of the sinner, the rule of repentance, an...
2 February ~ The Presentation
When the most pure Mother and Ever-Virgin Mary’s forty days of purification had been fulfilled, she took her first-born Son to Jerusalem on this, the fort...
Orthodoxy and Justification
In Orthodoxy, we are Justified by grace through faith in good works. The prepositions are vitally important! ‘Imputed Righteousness’ means that the ...
Orthodox Understanding of Salvation
In Orthodox understanding, salvation is the divine gift through which mean and women are delivered from sin and death, united to Christ, and brought into His et...
January 6th ~ Theophany
About the beginning of our Lord’s thirtieth year, John the Forerunner, who was some six months older than Our Saviour according to the flesh, and had live...
Christmas Sermon of St. John Chrysostom
I behold a new and wondrous mystery! My ears resound to the Shepherd’s song, piping no soft melody, but chanting full forth a heavenly hymn. The Angels sing!The...
The Greatest of These is Love
In the past I have written about the subjects of faith and of hope now we turn to the Theological Virtue of Love. Love is one the hardest and most misunderstood...
The Theological Virtue of Hope
The theological virtue of hope goes hand in hand with the theological virtue of faith. St. Paul in his letter to the Romans tells his readers that Abraham, “in ...
Entrance of the Theotokos
Archbishop Nicolae’s Meditation on the Feast of the Entrance in the Temple of the Mother of God 2008 On the 21st day of the month of November we celebrate the b...