Archpriest Andrew Phillips

On the Sunday of the Man Born Blind

On the Sunday of the Man Born Blind

28 May 2011

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

Firstly, the words of Christ about why the man was born blind. Replying to His disciples, He says that his blindness was not because the man sinned, or his parents, but so that the works of God be ...

On Orthodox Pastoral Work in the Western World and its Differences with Contemporary Russia

04 September 2010

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

The most common attitude of Western people to Orthodoxy (if they know what it is at all), is that it is ‘foreign’, ‘for Greeks and Russians only’. They say: ‘I cannot become Orthodox because I am ...

Russian Destinies

17 July 2010

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

There are historians who consider that the martyred Tsar was a poor ruler; others consider him to have been one of the best of rulers. I do not wish to talk about this; my business is not politics, ...

Nativity of John the Baptist

06 July 2010

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

‘What is the purpose of life?’ John the Baptist who never married, who remained a virgin, who prophesied, tells us that the purpose of life is to be spiritually fruitful. This is his prophetic ...

The Sunday after Nativity

08 January 2010

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

The Wise Men came with presents, gold, incense and myrrh. Gold represented the Kingship of Christ. Incense represented the Priesthood of Christ. Myrrh represented the Prophetic nature of Christ and ...

On the Transfiguration

18 August 2009

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

Now it is interesting that pilgrims who have been blessed to go to Mt Tabor and their photographs show us that Mt Tabor is not a mountain at all. It is rather a long, sloping hill with many ...

On Becoming and Remaining an Orthodox Christian

24 June 2009

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

Recently a priest who has received people into the Church for the last twenty years told me that the list of people whom he has received and who have lapsed is much longer than the list of those whom ...

On the Presentation of Christ in the Temple

14 February 2009

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

Since it is exactly forty days since Christmas, it is time for us to think about the last forty days and ask ourselves some questions: What today can we present to the Temple of Christ, the Church? ...

On the sunday of the Samaritan woman

26 May 2008

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

It is on this Sunday that the Church commemorates Christ's discussion during which Our Lord revealed His Divine identity to a simple women. During the Church service, as I listened to the Gospel ...

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