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Friends, you have, no doubt, noticed that new updates have been rather slow on the Preachers Institute these past few weeks. This is in anticipation of The "Art of Speaking" Workshop and another special event coming this December. Therefore, I'm letting you know that there will be no updates on the Preachers Institute Website this coming week, as I will be traveling to Boston, MA to attend the "Art of Speaking" Workshop hosted by the Holy Cross … [Read more...]
by St. John Maximovitch Our father among the saints, John Maximovitch, was a diocesan bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) who served widely from China to France to the United States. Countless miracles have been attributed to this holy bishop, both during his lifetime and since his repose. During this year, we will be offering some of his Pre-Lenten and Lenten themed sermons for your reference. Read … [Read more...]
On the Inevitability of Suffering: A Sermon on the Cross By New Hieromartyr John, Archbishop of Riga and Latvia, who, for his unyielding witness to the Truth suffered many persecutions and was burned alive by communist assassins in the night of October 12, 1934. From that time, Jesus began to show to His disciples that it is necessary for Him to go away to Jerusalem, and to suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and to … [Read more...]
by St. Andrew of Crete Our father among the saints Andrew of Crete, was Archbishop of Crete at the end of the 7th century and the beginning of the 8th. He was a true luminary of the Church, a great hierarch—a theologian, teacher and hymnographer, best known for writing the Great Canon. The present Feast is for us the beginning of feasts. Serving as boundary to the law and to prototypes, at the same time it serves as a doorway to grace and … [Read more...]
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