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The Samaritan Woman at the Well: An Encounter with Christ Who Reveals the Human Heart The Samaritan Woman at the Well: An Encounter with Christ Who Reveals the Human Heart When the Samaritan woman hurried back to her town and began calling her neighbors to come and see Christ, she said: “Come and see a […]

TAGS: 5th Sunday after Pascha, Christ and the Samaritan Woman, Encounter with Christ, God and Man, gospel reflection, Human Heart, Living Water, Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Sermon, Reading the Gospel, repentance, Samaritan Woman, spiritual life, Water of Life, Witness of Faith, Woman at the Well



During the first weeks following the life-giving, radiant Resurrection of Christ, we hear the testimonies of this Resurrection, and through this witness, we ourselves partake in the assurance that Christ has indeed risen, that He is truly the Son of God, the Savior of the world. But we do not only receive this testimony; we […]

TAGS: Apostle Peter, faith, Joseph of Arimathea, Myrrh-bearing Women, Nicodemus, Orthodoxy, Pascha, Resurrection of Christ, sermon, Sunday of the Myrrh-bearers






  A paralyzed man was brought to the Lord Jesus Christ by four of his friends; and seeing their faith, Christ told the paralytic that healing was possible and commanded him to rise. There are two things in this account that I would like us to consider. First, the man was ill, he was in […]

TAGS: compassion, faith, friends, Gospel, healing, intercession, love, paralyzed man, prayer, vocation


  Today we celebrate the Feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy; what triumph is being spoken of now? When we look around, when we look into the depths of the Orthodox faith that is dear to us, how much defeat and dejection we see – how little, it would seem, there is to celebrate. But […]

TAGS: Church, Church Fathers, faith, human weakness, icons, Incarnation, liturgy, Liturgy of St Basil, riumph of Orthodoxy, sacred tradition, spirituality, St Andrew of Crete, veneration of icons, victory of grace


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