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How to Know that God is Working in My Life

In an age when people are cynically feeling distant from (the concept of) God, it is important to be reminded that God is nearer than our very breath. Citing the gospel story of the great catch of fish, Fr Thomas teaches us concerning the assurance of the living God in our lives and the abundant life He promises.




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The Mystery of Christ's Resurrection

Christ appeared to his apostles, and Thomas, eight days after his Holy Resurrection. Fr Thomas teaches us that we learn of the mystery of the Resurrection, the mystery of the Church, and the mystery of Faith, all in a single life-changing encounter.




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How Can I Love My Enemy?

One of the most challenging commands of the teachings of Christ is to love our enemies. Fr Thomas explains what it looks like and why it's so important.




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How Do I Find the Will of God for My Life?

Christians are called to live in the will of God, but how do we find it? Fr Thomas teaches us that living in the will of God means identifying with God's Kingdom and not with the values of this fallen world.




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Where is God In My Problems?

The dramatic story of Peter attempting to walk on the water to come to Jesus is a reminder that God is with us in our problems even if we can't see Him. Fr Thomas teaches us that we're not called to a life without problems, we're called to be faithful through them.




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The Mystery of Time

Listen as Fr. Tom explains how Christ completely shatters our concept of time!




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Three Myths About Christianity

In the second of his Holiness Month series, Fr Thomas dispels three myths about Christianity. (Matthew 10:32-33, 37-38, 19:27-30) All Saints Sunday, June 11, 2023




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Mystical Supper

Fr. Gregory Hallam examines the hymn we sing throughout the Liturgy in commemoration of our Lord's institution of the Holy Eucharist.




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God Keeps His Holy Mysteries

Fr. Emmanuel Kahn gives the sermon for the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ.




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Carrying my Cross




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Help My Unbelief




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Heaven and Earth Meet in a Sacred Mystery




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My Time Has Not Yet Come




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My Sheep Hear My Voice




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The Enemy of My Enemy




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Tax Collectors and Sinners, Oh My!




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With A Little Help From My Friends




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Not Seeking My Own Advantage




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The Mystery of Lawlessness is Already at Work




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Out of Egypt Have I Called My Son




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I Will Kill My Brother




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You're Breaking My Heart




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God is No One's Enemy




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Oh My Mamma!




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Not Seeking My Own Advantage




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Out Of Egypt Have I Called My Son




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I Will Kill My Brother




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Eat My Flesh; Drink My Blood




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Not Myths, But Eyewitnesses




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You Are My Son!  Today, I Have Begotten You




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The Edge of Mysterion

Bobby interviews Fr. Richard Rene, author of The Edge of Mysterion: Another Tale of Mysterion.




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Children of My Heart

Bobby Maddex interviews Ashley Lackovich-Van Gorp, the author of the new AFP book Children of My Heart: Finding Christ Through Adoption.




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The Mystery of Art

Bobby interviews Emmy Award-winning actor, musician, and writer Jonathan Jackson about his new AFP book The Mystery of Art: Becoming an Artist in the Image of God.




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Passion: Enemy or Friend?

Metropolitan Kallistos Ware continues to address the theme of Passion during the 2010 IOCS Summer School.




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A Myrrh-Gushing Icon

Dr. Rossi takes us to Taylor, PA, and share his experience with the myrrh-gushing icon at St. George Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church. He interviews a college student and plays a clip of the singing of the faithful gathered there.




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My Favorite Bible Quotes

Dr. Albert Rossi reflects on some of his favorite Bible quotes and shares how they speak to him.




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My Conversion

Dr. Albert Rossi shares his faith journey and conversion to the Orthodox Church.




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My Guiltless Past

Dr. Albert Rossi contemplates the depth of forgiveness and our difficulty in accepting it in repentance.




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My Eye as a Guide

Dr. Albert Rossi shares about his experience of having eye surgery and how it compares to our spiritual sight.




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Male Converts and Female Saints: Strong Women in Orthodoxy and in My Family

Fr. Philip LeMasters marvels at how central the balance of the masculine and the feminine is to our Orthodox faith and spiritual life.




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St. Mary of Egypt and the Grace of the Holy Mysteries

During this week of Great Lent, wherein the Church reads the Life of St. Mary of Egypt, we explore a section of that text which reveals the relationship between "mystical theology" in ascetical life, to the grace of the Holy Mysteries in the Church. We are prompted to ask ourselves: Do I lose sight of the chalice in my desire to find Christ?




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The River of Jordan Streaming from my Eyes

This week, Fr. Irenei reflects on one of the "Steps" from St John Klimakos’s Ladder to Paradise, in which the saint considers the life of the Christian and the judgement of others. Have we begun to live the life of repentance? Or does our judgement of our neighbor reveal that we have yet to grasp the true nature of our sin, and make a true beginning of abandoning it in Christ?




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All to No Purpose Have I Left My True Home

The second of the pre-Lenten Sundays draws our attention to the Prodigal Son and his departure—and return—to his father’s house. In this week’s episode, Archimandrite Irenei examines the Fathers’ testimony to this event, found in the Church’s hymns, and examines the nature of sin as exile in every Christian’s life.




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The Holy Mysteries of the Sacraments

Fr. Alkiviadis Calivas discusses the sacraments of Marriage and Baptism.




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The Edge of Mysterion

Bobby Maddex interviews Fr. Richard Rene, priest at St. Aidan's Orthodox Church in Cranbrook, British Columbia, and the author of Conciliar Press' first ever young-adult fantasy novel The Edge of Mysterion.




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Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer

Bobby Maddex interviews Dr. Norris Chumley, the Executive Producer, Director, and Co-Narrator of the film Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer: A Pilgrimage to the Heart of an Ancient Spirituality. HarperOne has also released a literary companion to the film that bears the same title.




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This Is My Beloved Son

Bobby Maddex interviews Dr. Andreas Andreopoulos, Reader in Christianity at the University of Winchester, about his new book This Is My Beloved Son: The Transfiguration of Christ, published by Paraclete Press.




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My Soul, My Soul—Arise!

Bobby Maddex interviews the conductor Peter Jermihov about a concert of Orthodox Lenten and Marian hymns that will be performed by the St. Romanos Choir at Holy Virgin Protection Cathedral in Des Plaines, Illinois, on April 7, 2013.




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My Beautiful Lent

Are you dreading Great Lent? Is the Fast a struggle for you every year? Now there's help! Bobby Maddex interviews Cynthia Damaskos and Rita Madden, the individuals behind the new website My Beautiful Lent.




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My Beautiful Lent

Bobby Maddex interviews Cynthia Damaskos, CHC, one of the individuals behind the website My Beautiful Lent.