Priest Sergei Sveshnikov

Do Unborn Humans Have Human Rights?

23 February 2009

Priest Sergei Sveshnikov

I have been interested in the issue of whether unborn children should have human rights for quite some time. For me personally, this issue was settled before it ever arose: the position of the ...

The Sunday of the Dread Judgment

The Sunday of the Dread Judgment

21 February 2009

Priest Sergei Sveshnikov

The way to damnation is surprisingly simple: every time a man turns away from God and toward a television set, silences the voice of conscience and knowingly chooses sin, walks past someone in need, ...

Homily on the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord and Sunday of the Prodigal Son

16 February 2009

Priest Sergei Sveshnikov

Today the Church commemorated the Afterfeast of the Meeting of Our Lord. We offer you one more homily on the Feast which was preached yesterday by Fr.Sergei Sveschnikov in Holy New Martyrs and ...

Realizing Our Fallen State: On the Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Realizing Our Fallen State: On the Sunday of the Prodigal Son

13 February 2009

Priest Sergei Sveshnikov

Repentance is not self-pity or fruitless self-criticism. True repentance is the desire and the decision to turn away from sin and to flee to God for help. Christ teaches us not to remain where we ...

Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia

08 February 2009

Priest Sergei Sveshnikov

Let us always have the holy example of the new martyrs before our eyes as we live our lives. Let us find the source of their strength and drink of this fountain of immortality. As we go about our ...

The First Lesson Before the Beginning of Great Lent: On the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee

The First Lesson Before the Beginning of Great Lent: On the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee

06 February 2009

Priest Sergei Sveshnikov

Strange thing: we are preparing for Lent, but all next week we do not fast at all, not even on Wednesday and Friday! This is not in order to fatten up before the fast, as some may think, but in ...

On Consumerism in Church

26 January 2009

Priest Sergei Sveshnikov

In this age of individualized consumerism, we often treat our Church as a spiritual “supermarket.” We properly recognize that the Church offers us treasures, but instead of communing we consume. If ...

Opinion on Same-sex Marriage

16 October 2008

Priest Sergei Sveshnikov

But while keeping this in mind, it should be noted that it is hard to remain indifferent to living in Sodom or Gomorrah. Every normal Christian cannot but have a negative reaction when all that is ...

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