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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


    In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. The parable of the Prodigal Son is so well known to us; it is so simple, it gives us a sense of warmth and hope, yet its meaning for us is not exhausted by that, because it still […]

TAGS: confession, fatherly love, forgiveness, humility, joy, Orthodox Christianity, Parable, Prodigal Son, repentance, return, salvation, sin, Spiritual struggle, suffering


The Gospel passage that we read and heard today follows immediately after the account of the Lord’s Transfiguration. And we cannot help but be struck by the painful, terrifying contrast between these two worlds. On the Mount of Transfiguration, Christ was revealed as Man in the full glory of His humanity, not only shining with […]

TAGS: Burning Bush, Christian Witness, Divine Light, eternal life, Gospel Sermon, Metropolitan Anthony, Mount Tabor, Orthodox Christianity, Spiritual Responsibility, Transfiguration


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