(Reidman) Schema-Archimandrite Avraam

The Courage and Grace of Martyrdom: Sermon on the Feast Day of the Forty Martyrs of Sebastia

The Courage and Grace of Martyrdom: Sermon on the Feast Day of the Forty Martyrs of Sebastia

22 March 2012

(Reidman) Schema-Archimandrite Avraam

We are constantly betraying the Gospel commandments, reckoning them as nothing, but for some reason thinking that were some special trial to befall our lot – such as that which befell the Forty ...

Sharing the Good News of the Resurrection of Christ

08 April 2010

(Reidman) Schema-Archimandrite Avraam

Do we feel the fear or guilt that might result by speaking openly of our faith (or lack of faith) that may come across on the one hand as spiritually inadequate or, on the other, with a ...

Pascha – The Brightest Night

03 April 2010

(Reidman) Schema-Archimandrite Avraam

The most-bright night of Pascha is the only night in the year when we are all in church, the night on which no Orthodox would think of staying home, as long as he is physically able to stand. The ...

Holy Sexual Persons: Marital Relations in Orthodox Marriage

01 October 2009

(Reidman) Schema-Archimandrite Avraam

God created humans as sexual persons. There is no getting around this crucial point: "Have you not read that He who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'For ...

The Fire of the Resurrection

19 April 2009

(Reidman) Schema-Archimandrite Avraam

Created as a unique person, yet like everyone "called to be a saint," what will I do in response to His love? I will urge my heart to love God. I will focus on the reasons for this love, ...

Break the Holy Bread, Master: A Theology of Communion Bread

15 April 2009

(Reidman) Schema-Archimandrite Avraam

In the sacral life of the Church, we may speak not only of natural bonds between humans, not only of the “gluten” inherent to humans and coming from within them, but also of the leaven of the Holy ...

The Service of Holy Unction

The Service of Holy Unction

14 April 2009

(Reidman) Schema-Archimandrite Avraam

In receiving the sacrament of Holy Unction on this, the eve of Holy Thursday, we do much more than petition God to heal us of body and soul that we may enjoy the good things of this worldly life. We ...

Weddings and Marriages

27 January 2009

(Reidman) Schema-Archimandrite Avraam

The Orthodox Church regards marriage as one of the paths to true holiness of life, that is, it is seen as a way of salvation. Fine, many people would agree with that. But what is the other main line ...

St. Elias: Open To God’s Voice

St. Elias: Open To God’s Voice

01 August 2008

(Reidman) Schema-Archimandrite Avraam

Many of us think that we are living a godly life but because we are turned off to scriptures, because we are not open to the prophetic voices of the Church, because we have turned our thoughts away ...

The Orthodox Christian Marriage

27 July 2008

(Reidman) Schema-Archimandrite Avraam

Most Christian husbands have little idea of what this kind of love means. In the world, "love" usually refers to physical love or sentimental, romantic love. This has nothing to do with the ...

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