In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. We are at present in the period between the feast of the Ascension of the Lord and the feast of the Holy Trinity; and I should like to say something that is relevant to both feasts. The prophet Isaiah says in the 53rd…
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. To go through Lent receiving all it can give we must understand in what spirit we approach it; many endow Lent as a period of sadness and they are mistaken. Bitter, challenging, bracing would have been the weeks of preparation; when we are…
On the Sunday of Remembrance, I feel that I can not speak of prayer in general without relating it to the context which we have been living through in the course of this evening. And so let me start with a few things which will put it in its right setting. When I was called…
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. The Lord said once or perhaps was it one of His apostles, “if you judge yourself you would not be judged”. If we passed an honest judgement about what we are, turned to God in repentance and began to lead a life worthy…
We are now moving towards the Feast of the Incarnation of the Son of God. What does it say to us? I begin to speak of it now because we must reflect deeply about what the coming of the Lord in human form signifies in our own life. In the days when the Church was…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. In today’s Gospel we hear the Lord saying to each of us that our neighbour is not the one whom we like, not even the one whom we love; it is the one who needs us, whether he likes us or not,…
В № 2 ‘Приходского вестника’ Лондонского прихода за 1953 год был напечатан текст настоятеля, иеромонаха Антония, будущего Митрополита Сурожского, его впечатления от Коронации взошедшей на Британский Престол молодой Елизаветы II. Коронация состоялась 2 июня 1953 г. Вот этот текст: “На многая, многая лета!” Как это знают все те, которым дано часто бывать в церкви, наш…
Impressions of the Coronation from. Fr. Antony Bloom, Priest of the Russian Church in London THOSE who take an active part in the life of our Parish know that, long before the Coronation, it had begun to prepare itself for the great event for which we were all waiting. Two lectures had been given in…
In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. The Feast of the Assumption of the Mother of God which combines together two events: Her death and Her resurrection is the body on the third day has been for centuries, indeed — from the very beginning of the existence and…
…From the beginning the Orthodox Church has insisted on the fact that it is not the laying on of hands, but the gift of the Spirit which brings about an ordination. At the ordination of a deacon words are used which I think ought to bring sobriety to many of those who perform ordinations. When…