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In order to further prepare our thoughts for the coming of Great Lent, the Church presents us with our Lord's description of His return in glory. Fr Thomas reminds us that the Last and Final Day is both terrifying and awesome, dread and joyful, as we prepare now in this life for the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Sunday of the Last Judgment)

Fr. Gregory speaks about the feast of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple.

Have no thought for tomorrow for day by day God will provide His bread and His wine and none shall hunger or thirst any more.

Deacon Emmanuel Kahn is the preacher today and says "Great Lent doesn’t begin for another three weeks until Sunday evening, February 22nd. However, I think the tax collector in the Gospel we have just heard from Chapter 18 of St. Luke has some important advice for each of us, whatever our ages, about how we can prepare for Great Lent."

Fr. Emmanuel Hahn speaks about a woman in Matthew 15 who is not Jewish and asks Jesus Christ for mercy for herself and for her daughter who is seriously ill. Those few crumbs that the Greek woman begged from Christ became the loaves of commitment to Christianity for millions of people throughout the world.

Fr. Gregory Hallam - Sunday, December 16, 2018.

Dr. Rossi uses the song "Had I a Golden Thread" as sung by his wife of blessed memory to illustrate the opportunity we all have to be a healing presence.

Dr. Rossi discusses the need for hobbies and leisure, as balanced with the need for uplifting pursuits.

Fr. Lawrence Farley reminds us that the man who trusts God and does what is pleasing to him, such as giving alms to the poor, will experience His favor when his own time of need comes.

In this episode, former CrossRoad assistant director Daniel Belonick discusses reading and understanding scripture with CrossRoad professor Fr. Theodore Stylianopoulos.

Daniel Belonick continues his discussion with Fr. Theodore Stylianopoulos about daily scripture reading, this time focusing on how to approach passages that are difficult to understand.

Bobby Maddex interviews Fr. Michael Keiser, author of the new Conciliar Press book Spread the Word: Reclaiming the Apostolic Tradition of Evangelism.

A conversation with film producer David DeJonge and the head of the Department of Outreach and Evangelism for the GOA, Fr. Jim Kordaris. Learn about a new and exciting project to produce a high quality video series as a tool for evangelism called Baseline.

Bobby Maddex interviews Dn. Stephen Muse, Director of the Pastoral Counselor Training program and Clinical Services for the D.A. & Elizabeth Turner Ministry Resource Center of the Pastoral Institute, Inc., in Columbus, Georgia, and the author of the book Being Bread, published by St. Tikhon's Monastery Press.

Bobby Maddex interviews Dn. Gregory Ealy, the music director at St. Mary’s Orthodox Cathedral in Minneapolis, Minnesota, about a new CD by the cathedral choir titled Make Ready, O Bethlehem: Orthodox Hymns for Christmas. Dn. Gregory also talks about an upcoming benefit concert for St. Vladimir's Seminary.

Fr. Pat discusses the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes.

St. Paul sees the interpretation of the Old Testament as central to his responsibility in the apostolic ministry. So should we.

While imprisoned in Caesarea, St. Paul, influenced by the medical expertise of his companion Luke, contemplates the armor of the soldier guarding him.

Preaching from Romans 13, Fr. Pat looks at what Paul has to say about the political, social, and economic life of the Christian in the world.

Jesus' encounter with the Syrophoenician woman as recounted by Matthew (chapter 15) has much to teach us when we consider Phoenicia's history, the woman herself, and the meaning of the children's bread.

January 30 in the Orthodox Church is the Feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom. In this homily from 2011, Fr. Pat teaches us about these three Fathers of the Church and their contributions to the Faith.

There are a lot of different, even contradictory, interpretations of Scripture. So how do we understand what the Bible actually means?

The Lord speaks of a farmer who spreads his seeds all over his farm - on good and bad soil! We too need to spread His Word over the entire human population - regardless of where we might think the harvest is to be reaped.

As Holy Week begins, Fr. Philip gives the hopeful perspective.

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Google joins the already crowded RSS aggregator space with their new ajax RSS reader, done in the style of Gmail. Blogger project manager Jason Shellen led the project.

A cloud IVR (interactive voice response) system is a call center solution that combines automated voice prompts with integrated features like payment systems and access to live agents. As cloud computing has moved from niche to mainstream, most IVR operations have followed suit by migrating from on-premises to cloud-based solutions.  […]

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Mack Hansen says Ireland will ignore "outside noise" in the build-up facing Argentina after their defeat to the All Blacks

A reading scheme set up to help school children in Hastings has been extended for a third year.

Microsoft has a long, and not very successful, history with eReaders, going all the way back to Microsoft Reader, which debuted in 2000, but never made it beyond Windows Mobile and was shuttered in 2012. Since then, Microsoft hasn’t …

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This is an exceptionally long post detailing pretty much everything I learned at an event shortly before Christmas at Meta’s offices in San Francisco. I’ve been delayed in writing it up because of traveling back to the UK for Christmas and other commitments – and because I wanted to capture everything. It’s roughly written, and […]

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Borag Thungg! When things like Woolworths go bust, people who haven’t been to Woolworths for years feel sad and say “Why can’t the old things I liked survive?”. So at the start of the pandemic I worried about things going...