Sermon on the 8th Sunday (1 Corinthians 1, 10-18 and Matthew 14, 14-21) In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit: Dear brothers and sisters: In today’s Epistle reading from St. Paul to the Corinthian’s he exclaimed: «is Christ divided?» (v.13) and begs members of the Corinthian Church in the name […]

Message of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Archpastors, Clergy, Monastics and Laypeople on the 1030th Anniversary of the Baptism of Rus’ The document was adopted at the session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on 14 July 2018 (Journal No 42). Blessed […]

HEALING FROM BLINDNESS In the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit! Dear brothers and sisters: In the Gospel concerning Christ’s healing of two blind men (Mat. 9, 27-35) the path towards faith is depicted, it shows how a blind can see, how one can receive what he asks for. Sin […]

The path towards Christ with the help of friends (Sermon on the 6th Sunday after Pentecost) In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit: Todays Gospel reading talks about the forgiveness of sins and about healing. After being rejected in the land of Gergesenes, Christ comes to another place, to […]