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Homilies by the Holy Fathers connected with the Church’s annual cycle of Feasts and Fasts as well as Patristic Commentaries on the Holy Scriptures; includes homilies for the Nativity of Christ, Theophany, Transfiguration, Holy Week, Pascha, the Nativity and the Dormition of the Mother of God, the Great Fast, Ss. Peter and Paul, and other days by St. Gregory the Theologian, St. John Chrysostom, St. Gregory Palamas, St. Leo of Rome, St. Maximus of Turin, St. Basil the Great, St. Amphilocius of Iconium, St. John of Kronstadt, St. Philaret the Confessor, St. John Maximovitch and others. Also includes commentaries on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments by St. John Chrysostom, St. Ephraim the Syrian, St. Cyril of Alexandria, St. Gregory of Nyssa, and others.

Feast Days:

• Sermon on the Nativity of Christ (1906) - Blessed Metropolitan Antony (Khrapovitsky)

• The Mystery of Loving-Kindness - A Sermon on the Nativity of Christ - St. John of Kronstadt

• The Circumcision of Our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ

• The Theophany and Holy Baptism in the Words of the Holy Fathers

• Homily on the Theophany - St. Philaret the Confessor

• First Homily on the Annunciation - St. Gregory the Wonderworker

• Second Homily on the Annunciation - St. Gregory the Wonderworker

• Third Homily on the Annunciation - St. Gregory the Wonderworker

• Homily on the Feast of the Annunciation of the All Holy Theotokos - Metropolitan PHILARET of Moscow

• First Paschal Sermon - St. Gregory the Theologian

• Paschal Epistle - St. Philaret the Confessor - 1982

• Paschal Epistle - St. Philaret the Confessor - 1984

• Sermon on Pascha and the Good Thief - St. Maximus of Turin

• Three Homilies on the Dormition of the Theotokos - By Saint John of Damascus

The Passion:

• What Did Christ Pray about in the Garden of Gethsemane? - By Saint John Maximovitch

• Sermon on the Solemnity of the Burial of Our Savior - (Delivered on Great and Holy Saturday) - St. Amphilocius of Iconium

• On the Passion of the Saviour - St. Ephrem

• On Holy and Great Friday - St. Philaret the Confessor

The Cross:

• "The Cross Is the Sign of Christianity; A Christian Cannot Be Without His Cross": On the Inevitability of Suffering - By New Hieromartyr John, Archbishop of Riga and Latvia

• Sermon on the Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord - The Cross Preserves the Universe - St. John Maximovitch

• Concerning the Cross and Faith - St. John of Damascus

• Old Testament Prototypes of the Cross of the Lord

On Orthodoxy:

• What is Orthodoxy? - Archbishop Averky

• The Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy - 1903 - St. Tikhon of Moscow

• On the Joy of Being Orthodox - The Sunday of Orthodoxy - St. John of Kronstadt

• On the Sunday of Orthodoxy - St. John Maximovitch

On Scriptures:

• On Paradise - St. Ambrose of Milan

• Commentary on Genesis - Saint Ephraim

• On the Fall of Man - Saint John Maximovitch

• On Abraham and Isaac - St. Ephrem

• Sunday of the Paralytic - St. Cyril of Alexandria

• Homily on the woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. - St. Cyril of Alexandria

• Lazarus and the Rich Man - St. Cyril of Alexandria

• The Lazarus of the Parable, and the Lazarus who was Four Days in the Tomb. - Blessed Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky)

• On the Publican and Pharisee - St. Gregory Palamas

Miscellaneous Topics:

• The Church as the Body of Christ - St. John Maximovitch

• Homily on Thanksgiving - St. Basil the Great

• The First Ecumenical Council - Blessed Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky)

• On Eunuchs and Divorce - St. Gregory the Theologian

• On Antichrist - St. John of Damascus

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