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O LORD, Look Down Upon this Vineyard! Thirteenth after Pentecost, Thirteenth of Matthew

Today we read our epistle (1 Corinthians 16:13-24) and gospel (Matthew 21:33-42) in the light of Isaiah 5:1-7; 27:1-13 and 2 Peter 1: 3-12. We are led to see that there is a new song of hope that replaces the prophet’s lament over God’s people, because Jesus has become the cornerstone of God’s Temple.




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This is My Beloved Son

Fr. Ted speaks about the feast of Theophany. He explains that in both Nativity and Theophany, God reveals Himself to man.




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This Feast Bothers Me

Fr. Theodore Paraskevopoulos describes the irony in the Palm Sunday story.




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We've Been Training For This

Fr. Theodore Paraskevopoulos preaches on the Gospel reading from the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent, reminding us that as Orthodox Christians we have been training through our prayer, fasting and almsgiving for an unusual occasion like the one we face during the coronavirus pandemic.




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The Passions: How we get into this mess and how we get out

Mother Melania, stavrophor (little schema) nun at St. Barbara Monastery, Santa Paula, California and author of the series, "The Twelve Great Feasts for Children", and the series, "The 3-Day Pascha" (for Great and Holy Friday, Great and Holy Saturday, and Pascha) discusses purity (and impurity) of heart and overcoming the passions.




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This Present Moment: Practicing Orthodox Spirituality in an Age of Distraction - Introduction

Dn. Michael Hyatt returns to his Sunday school class and begins teaching through Time and Despondency: Regaining the Present in Faith and Life..




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How to Be a Sinner: Like I Need This? The Sinner Identity and Its Gifts

To see ourselves as God sees us is real truth and part of that is to see ourselves as sinners when revealed by the divine light. Dn. Michael Hyatt is teaching through How to Be a Sinner by Dr. Peter Bouteneff.




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Is This A Church Where You Can Light A Candle?

Listen to excerpts from this past Sunday's bulletin at St. John the Compassionate Mission, serving the most vulnerable in Toronto.




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This week's stories from the Mission, by Brother Luke

Brother Luke shares about an addict and a group of mourners he met at St. John the Compassionate Mission.




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Why is this the time?

Listen to a short reflection about S., who is becoming a new person.




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This Must Be The Place lyric tattoos

Liverpool tattoo artist Rachel Baldwin made charming tattoos for each line of the Talking Heads classic and made it into a music video #




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For the first time, every incumbent party in 10 major countries lost their elections this year

inflation was a painful global phenomenon, and every ruling party was punished for it regardless of political leanings #




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Do You See This Woman?

All of the words of the Saviour are important, even the words spoken that were strictly rhetorical. One such utterance is found in the story of the sinful woman, told in Luke 7:36f.




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Suffering in This Life or the Next

Referencing the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, Fr. Apostolos shares about suffering. "Suffering can make no sense to us unless we view it from an eternal perspective. Our suffering is made worse because we have lost the vision of the goal of suffering."




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But I Was Born This Way! (Luke 8:5-15)

As cultural changes rapidly sweep across the Western world, the question of who we are as individuals becomes a persistent theme. Fr Thomas reminds us that one of the central doctrines of our faith, growing in the likeness of God, reveals who we truly are in Christ. (19th Sunday after Pentecost)




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Today Salvation Has Come To This House

As we approach the Great Lenten season, we first hear about Zacchaeus. Fr. Tom reminds us that the same message harkening to Zacchaeus to hasten and come down to receive Christ is being spoken to us now.




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Triumph of this Faith

Fr. Christopher gives the sermon on the Triumph of Orthodoxy.




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I Will Not Hold This Against You

In this, the time of salvation, God does not hold our sins against us—if we come to him for forgiveness and cooperate with Him in turning our life around.




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The Fire This Time




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This Child




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This Is A Hard Saying




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Take This One, It's Lighter




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For This Purpose




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Yuck, This Medicine Tastes Horrible




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This Is Not A Game




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This Makes Jesus Mad




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This Is The Anti-Christ




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This Is Jesus Christ




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Take This One




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The Form of This World




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This Treasure in Earthen Vessels




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Don't Make Me Stop This Car!




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It's Time To Clean This Place Out!




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This Is NOT A Game!




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This Makes Jesus Mad!




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This Is the Purpose for the Whole World




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Do You Take Offense at This?




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I Was Born This Way!




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For This Purpose




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Don't Make Me Stop this Car!




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This Little Light of Mine




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Reconciling Faith and the Theories of This Age: Part 1

The 20/40 Young Adult Ministry of St Joseph Church, Houston, hosted Dr. John Mark Reynolds, Provost of Houston Baptist University (and Orthodox Christian) on four Fridays in March.




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Reconciling Faith and the Theories of This Age: Part 2

The 20/40 Young Adult Ministry of St Joseph Church, Houston, hosted Dr. John Mark Reynolds, Provost of Houston Baptist University (and Orthodox Christian) on four Fridays in March.




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Reconciling Faith and the Theories of This Age: Part 3

The 20/40 Young Adult Ministry of St Joseph Church, Houston, hosted Dr. John Mark Reynolds, Provost of Houston Baptist University (and Orthodox Christian) on four Fridays in March.




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Reconciling Faith and the Theories of This Age: Part 4

The 20/40 Young Adult Ministry of St Joseph Church, Houston, hosted Dr. John Mark Reynolds, Provost of Houston Baptist University (and Orthodox Christian) on four Fridays in March.




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Mercy on this Mess

Dr. Rossi visits the ocean and reflects on the mess in his mind.




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That Was Then, This Is Now

Our culture continues along its escalating trajectory of militant anti-Christian sentiment. Life in such an unwelcoming environment will be good for us, says Fr. Lawrence Farley, for persection has always had a purifying effect upon the Church.




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From the Angel to St. Anthony: “Do This, and You Will Be Saved”

This week’s broadcast focuses on an episode from the Life of St. Anthony the Great, in which the saint, seeking solace in his spiritual struggles, receives an angelic testimony to the way of salvation. Has this message something to teach the Christian struggling in the world today?




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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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New To Orthodoxy? Listen To This First

Dn. Michael Hyatt is chairman of the Board of Trustees for Ancient Faith Ministries. He is the Founder and CEO of Michael Hyatt & Company, an online leadership development company dedicated to helping high achievers win at work and succeed at life. Formerly the CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, Michael is also the New York Times bestselling author of Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World and the co-author of Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting.