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1. Question: How can it be that apostle Paul had persecuted Christians and nevertheless converted while there are people who…
I want shortly to say something about Christ’s commandment that we should love one another as He has loved us….
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We are starting today our dread journey together with the Lord Jesus Christ to Calvary. All these weeks Christ will…
I have not got the courage to begin what I have got to say to you now with the habitual…
The Feast of the Nativity of Christ cannot but fill us with a feeling of gratitude and joy; but also…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. I AM ASKED very often how to…
I want to have the arrogance of adding a word to what you have heard, the word of a saint….
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. I want to say something which is…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. The weeks that have preceded Forgiveness Sunday…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. The martyrs and the saints of a…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. At the Nativity of Christ we rejoice…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. The Gospel is infinitely simple if we…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. In a week’s time we will keep…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. How tragic today’s story of the life…
The service of Forgiveness is not a time when a priest has a right, or a call to teach forgiveness…
On our journey towards Lent, and beyond Lent towards Easter, we come to a series of parables which must prepare…
We are keeping today the Remembrance Sunday. We remember, yes, we must remember and never forget all those who in…
In the Name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Continuing my short talks/sermons on…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. I have been asked to give a…
In the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. I was asked to give a certain number of…
In the Name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen We remember today the martyrs…
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. I will speak first in English and then…
We are keeping today the feast of All Saints. Each of us has been dedicated on the day of his…
If I may I wish to add just a few words of my own. Christ is life and the victory…
I want to say a few words now which are not on the Gospel, which are rooted for me deeply,…
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. On the day we remember the Cross, we…
The theme of the conference as presented, ‘In what way have we Orthodox failed our vocation?’, has already provoked a…
Before we disperse and before we commit the body of Anya whom we have revered and loved to her last…
We are keeping today, as every year at the end of the first week of Lent, the Feast of the…
We have heard today the story of a man who for 38 years lay paralised waiting of the waters to…
Very often people come to confession and repeat sins which they have confessed time and again. The priest does not…
Within the immeasurable depth of the Liturgy, two events have occurred to-day in this Service. One, the ordination of Nicholas…
After a certain number of my last sermons, I was told that I cast a feeling of darkness, of sadness…
Today by the will of the people of God, by the election of his brother clergy and by his total…
It has been said that the glory of the Church of God is its martyrs, those people who proved ready…
In the context of the Feast which we keep these days, the Incarnation of the Son of God who came…
This is Christ’s Birthday! The children’s Festival. There are Christmas trees with their candles burning, children are delightedly receiving presents,…
We are keeping today the Resurrection of Christ which is the victory of God over death but also over evil….
More than once does the Gospel give us a warning on the way in which we shall be judged and…
Today we are keeping the memory of St Anthony of Egypt. In the lives of saints we usually single out…
This is Christ’s Birthday! The Children’s Festival. There are Christmas trees with their candles burning, children are delightedly receiving presents,…
It is with an increasing sense not only of awe but of terror that I pronounce the words of the…
We are keeping today the Resurrection of Christ which is a victory of God over death but also over Evil….
Two weeks ago we heard the Gospel relating the story of the blind man, Bartimaeus (St Luke XVIII :35-43), and…
I should like to add a few words of my own in greeting to all those who are listening to…
In the Name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. How mysterious the Church is; one…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. The Lord warns us today of how difficult…
How beautiful and seemingly simple are the last words of to-day’s Epistle: ‘Carry one another’s burdens, and so you will…
The Nativity of St John the Baptist confronts us with a most tragic and most mysterious personality of the New…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. I have spoken to you lately of one…
I have been asked more than once ‘How should we read the Gospel so that it reaches not only our…
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. I should like you to pay attention to…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. We remember today the Myrrh-bearing Women, Joseph of…
Addressed to the people of Russia after the broadcast of the Resurrection Service from the Cathedral, Ennismore Gardens, London. …
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. In these weeks of preparation for Lent, we…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. As in the days of the ministry of…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. In today’s Gospel (St. Luke 10:25-37) we hear…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. To-day’s Epistle is not clear in every respect,…
It is still in the shining of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross that we celebrate today this…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. We are still in the light of the…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. I should like to begin with the words…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. We keep today the memory of Saint Mary…
We live in a time when all Christians represent a diminishing minority and in which we, the Orthodox, are a…
I want to address myself to you now, all of you who have come to rejoice together with us in…
The challenge of the modern world is far too much to speak of at a meeting. We are challenged by…
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Two men chosen by the people of God,…
The two readings which we have heard to-day, that of the Epistle and that of the Gospel present us with…
In the name of the Father, the Son and of the Holy Ghost. We are keeping today the Feast of…
In his Epistle to the Romans (15:1-7) St. Paul calls all Christians to be the strength and the support of…
When I was a teenager, a came once from a summer’s camp for boys and was met by my father,…
On 3 February 1983, in the Lavra of St. Sergius of Radonezh at Zagorsk, seat of the Moscow Theological Academy,…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Addressing the youth who wanted to attain perfection,…
I wish now to address myself to those of you who do not speak Russian, and beyond the walls of…
The problems posed by ‘primacy’ in the Church have been with us from the beginning: the earliest attempt at a…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Three weeks, one after the other, we…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. The piece of cloth upon which the Holy…
One of the icons of the Resurrection shows us what is called ‘the Harrowing of hell’; deep under the surface…
We are keeping today the feast of St Andrew, whom we call in the Orthodox Church “The First-Called”. We meet…
In the Name of the Farther, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Week after week after the feast of the…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Today’s Gospel reading (Luke 17,11-19) is about gratitude,…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. The end of today’s Gospel reading is a…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Today’s Gospel, interrupting, so to speak, a series…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. We constantly read about Christ’s miracles in the…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. We are at present in the period between…
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. I should like to draw your attention to…
In the writings of a Hebrew theologian of the 12th century who lived in Spain there is a passage in…
15 April 1980 It is not easy to add anything useful to what was said; only I would like to…
It is very rare that the Resurrection of Christ and the Annunciation coincide as they have done this year. And…
How blessed we are: in the hours that separate us now from the proclamation of the Resurrection of Christ we…
We have been aware to-night of the death of Christ; and yet, we proclaim that in the tomb itself the…
After what we have seen and heard, there is no space for a sermon; I would like only to beg…
We have been in the course of three hours confronted with the Passion of the Lord, with His love so…
Now we shall perform the sacramental unction of the sick. It was instituted by the Lord Jesus Christ and His…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. One by one the weeks of Lent pass,…
There are two phrases in the Prokeminon of this evening service, to which I wish to attract your attention: “the…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Twice in the Gospel passage that was read…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Year after year we read the story of…
When Christ was parting from His disciples on the day of His glorious and bright Ascension, He commanded them to…
In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Whenever we receive Communion we say…
Before I read the Epistle of Saint John Chrysostom and speak in Russian to those of you whose language it…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. When the angel appeared to Joseph he reminded…
Today’s Gospel is about mercy, and it seems to us so often from the experience we have of our earthly…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Twice in the Gospels we read the solemn…
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. When we think of the Incarnation of the…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. When Christ was born into our world, that…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Often people are struck by the question: how…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Whenever we read the Gospel, either to ourselves…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. When we read the words of the Saviour…
St. Hermas tells us that in a vision he saw a woman of rare beauty, the flower of virginity on…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Every new year brings us a moment of…
Part I. I have said in one of my last sermons that one should come to confession as though it…
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. I wish now to say a few words…
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. There is anguish when a woman is in…
In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. We are so accustomed to think…
When speaking of the spiritual and the psychological realm, many people confuse these two regions. When you ask them about…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. In two passages of his Epistles St. Paul…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. The Gospel story of the centurion tells us…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Before his meeting with Christ the blind man…
In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. In today’s Gospel, Christ advises His…
Our President has been wise enough to give all his appreciation of the lecture I am going to give before…
When we hear about the healing of the unfortunate man who had lain sick for 38 years, our hearts are…
Born Anthony Bloom, son of a member of the Russian Imperial Diplomatic Corps, Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh spent his childhood…
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. How many of us have today received communion…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Like a scarlet thread the idea of eternal…
In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. The holy, the divine liturgy is…
Short address after the consecration and the Liturgy. I should like to say a few words before we part. The…
In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Perhaps in these days that follow…
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Today’s Gospel, in the beginning of our Lent…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. It says in Holy Scripture “Take heed therefore…
What life-giving waters there, and what terrifying ones! At the beginning of the Book of Genesis we read how the…
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. I want to say a few words…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. With what pain do we hear of the…
On the eve of the Feast of the Transfiguration Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh – better known as Archbishop Anthony Bloom…
CHRISTIANITY AND YOUNG PEOPLE I think that before I speak of Christianity and young people I should say a few…
When Christ first rose from the tomb and appeared to His disciples and the myrrh-bearing women, He greeted them with…
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Today, on our preparation journey towards Lent, we…
What I intend to do – is to give a first introductory talk, than have a break during which we…
In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. I so often call you to…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. I should like to say a few words…
Today it has become almost commonplace to talk about the need for proper care of the terminally ill and dying…
In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. We hear week after week the…
God’s gift on the day of Pentecost did not remain vain and fruitless for the disciples of Christ. They brought…
In the 60s and 70s the visits of Metropolitan Anthony to Russia, where normal Church life was almost entirely suppressed,…
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. One of the most painful things which we…
There are two sayings in Holy Scripture to which I should like to draw your attention. One refers to the…
In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. I would like to attract your…
The world around us is full of hatred and turmoil, and however close we may feel to one another, however…
When we celebrate the day of the holy Apostles we do not always fully realise how grateful we should be…
On the first Sunday after Pentecost we celebrate the day of All Saints. Is it not the right moment to…
I spoke last time of community, and at the end I suggested that the pattern of any real human community,…
In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. We are met together tonight…
John the Baptist was the forerunner of Christ. He was the one who came before Him to make the pathway…
People generally trace their genealogies from honour to honour, from glory to glory, remembering those people in their line who…
I do not mean to give a complete exposition of Christianity. I want to take a certain number of points…
Q: Is awareness of the present moment vital to mediation? AA (Archbishop Anthony): I think it is vital to meditation…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Once again a new year is approaching. When…
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. How can a man who appears to us…
Many a time does Christ in His Gospel tell us of the new commandment which He has given us. What…
The subject of my talk today is, as you know, part of a series on worship in a secular age,…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. We are accustomed to turn to God for…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. When the Lord at the Last Supper instituted…
A writer of the nineteenth century has said: “Prayer is about things which never happen and is addressed to one…
In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. ‘My Lord and my God!’ After…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. We are at the threshold of Holy Week,…
After the very warm welcome which I have received, I should like to start with apologies. The first thing that…
It is difficult to speak of something we are aiming at and we have not achieved. This is one of…
It is about facing suffering that I am going to speak, not on suffering considered from a philosophical point of…
The whole of Christ’s life was a struggle with death. He, the Immortal One, was born into a life and…
It is a joy to have the opportunity of bearing witness to something that strikes me and touches my heart,…
HOLINESS Before speaking about prayer and holiness in the contemporary world, I want to point out something that we always…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Through living the whole life of the church,…
In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. The words which Saint Paul addresses…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. We are still illumined by the joyful light…
Dostoyevsky says somewhere that one should speak either of things one knows or of things one likes and, as probably…
In our last talk we mentioned the unjust Steward, and I want to say a few words of introduction, concerning…
This talk was given by Metropolitan Anthony to the London Group of the Fellowship of Saint Alban and Saint Sergius…
The word “Epiphany” means manifestation… At the festival of the Epiphany four events were commemorated – the Nativity of Christ,…
… his face must have appeared as ugly to men, He was a criminal, and the danger to which He…
Until the middle of my teens I was an unbeliever – an aggressive one at that, as many are. I…
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Helpless love is both salvation and judgement; helplessness…
The Gospel is read in the church at every service, at every service we are standing around this word of…
EDITORIAL NOTES * * Autumn 1967 has also seen the fiftieth anniversary of the Russian revolution. There is not space…
May I first express my gratitude to the Principal and Vice-Principal for inviting me to speak to you. May I…
Metropolitan Anthony Bloom’s answer to a question asked at Taize, France, by a group of young people: What value has…
We have devoted most of this year to the discussion of, not the problem, but the mystery and the reality…
We have been speaking for a certain time about the revelation of God, and I think I have insisted enough,…
Dialogue between Edmund and Anthony: Revelation Edmund Leach, Provost of King’s College, Cambridge; Anthony Bloom, Archbishop of Sourozh. Edmund: I…
In a talk, even a rather long one, it would not be possible to speak of Orthodox spirituality in its…
At the end of our last talk we came to a point where it seemed to be necessary for us…
During these weeks of Lent many of you will be partaking of the Holy Mysteries, and we must partake of…
In the Name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Right at the beginning of Lent…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. The parable of the Prodigal Son speaks to…
Today, when somehow the divisions of the Church seem paramount in people’s minds, it is good to be reminded of…
At the centre of the Gospel there is the meeting between God and man, and the meeting between man and…
Although I think I will be repeating things which a certain number of you have already heard and are very…
Our plan this year is to take a certain amount of passages in the Gospel and to give a commentary…
The origin of this paper is to be found in a question which I was asked sometime ago, as to…
I would like to begin today’s talk with the same analogy with which I began last time, that of the…
I met Christ as a Person at a moment when I needed Him in order to live, at a moment…
My intention is not to give a systematic and contrasting series of talks to make Orthodoxy different from other faiths…
When the Lord instituted at the Last Supper that mystery of our faith which we call the Holy Liturgy or…
I think we should now stop and think and ask ourselves how evil should be dealt with. First of all…
The story of the appearance of evil in the Garden of Eden is connected with the serpent. We can discuss…
The question of evil appears quite different in two contexts. If you look at the Bible and the fall of…
Talk 1: We can flee responsibilities, but we cannot avoid facing the world and its terrors. Can we do this…
When someone is ill, obviously it is not the moment to come and say, “H’m! You are ill. You do…
Archbishop Anthony Bloom originally trained as a surgeon in Paris. He is now Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church in…
Metropolitan Anthony: The Eucharistic celebration, the communion service has got one particular quality: it is an act of God. Because…
The conversation between Christ and the young man who asked how to obtain eternal life, assumes significance and clarity when…
Archbishop Anthony: [1] FIRST OF ALL, I wish to express my joy at being in your midst again, and the…
In our communion of Christ holy Mysteries we become akin to Him – become one with Him humanity. But in…
O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer. Tempest, I, ii, 5. The words of Shakespeare’s Miranda might…
On the Sunday before the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Gross we are reminded of the purpose of…
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. What I have got to say I should…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. The feast of the Ascension of the Lord…
We have until now listened to given points of view which are that commonly expounded in the Orthodox Church. But…
In the last talk we have discussed the two records of man’s creation in Genesis. The one given in the…
We have now come to the point when it is time to examine the creation of man. We have already…
In our reading of the first chapter of Genesis we have insisted so far on the act of creation, on…
In previous lectures we have seen that at the root of our existence there is a concrete basic relation with…
Last time I pointed out the difference between the act of creation, which is summed up in the first verse…
The subject of this year’s talks will be Genesis, and most probably only the beginning of Genesis. And I should…
I want to share with you some kind of discovery I have made: I have come by accident upon the…
Interview granted by His Eminence Archbishop Antony, Exarch of the Patriarch of Moscow in Western Europe, to Mr. Gabriel Matzneff,…
I would like if I may to take up a few categories which belong to the mystery and the fact…
Today we are going to deal with the subject to which the argument led last time. We came to a…
I am going to speak today of the Holy Spirit, centring our discussion on the event of Pentecost, Whit Sunday;…
We have spoken last time of Passion Week, and although we have left a great deal unsaid, I would like…
As Holy Week is drawing close, I have been asked by a certain number of people to break again the…
I would like to make a break in the normal series of our talks and say something about the Incarnation…
I would like to come back to a point which was discussed at the end of the last meeting and…
We have got to discuss to-day four of Tillich’s sermons; I am not going to discuss them separately and in…
We start this year on something we have never attempted before, on an effort to read together and to discuss…
I wish to say a few things about what I believe can be the contribution of Orthodoxy in this situation…
I want to speak on the connection there is between the liturgy and life, between worship and action, between what…
To finish this series of talks on doctrine, we have now to envisage what man is and I will in…
Trinitarian theology as you know, is the work mainly of the fourth century. The council of Nicea completed and fulfilled…
We are going to continue on the subject of doctrine according to Lossky, in a shorter form, with the theory…
The nature of grace has been a subject of theological discussion in the 14th century and the two or three…
I have been asked to write my impressions of Russia, the Russian people and the Russian Church. There is no…
I have obtained notes that Lossky had compiled when he talked at the Theological school. The introduction he made to…
Christians of the Orthodox Church have attached meaning and value to certain techniques which have been found to aid…
At every service we pray for the “union of all” in the Church of the Living God. What sort of…
