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1. Question: How can it be that apostle Paul had persecuted Christians and nevertheless converted while there are people who…
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…
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. We keep today the memory of Saint Mary…
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 his Epistle to the Romans (15:1-7) St. Paul calls all Christians to be the strength and the support of…
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,…
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…
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…
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. 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…
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. 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. Perhaps in these days that follow…
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…
What I intend to do – is to give a first introductory talk, than have a break during which we…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Archbishop Anthony: [1] FIRST OF ALL, I wish to express my joy at being in your midst again, and the…
O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer. Tempest, I, ii, 5. The words of Shakespeare’s Miranda might…
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. What I have got to say I should…
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…
