Teaching on St. Thomas Sunday – St. John of Kronstadt

Follows my translation of a little teaching of St. John of Kronstadt on St. Thomas Sunday. Although it in no way concerns St. Thomas, it’s a good after Pascha rebuke. Christ is Risen! Beloved brothers, so Bright Week has passed and taken with it our deeds to the throne of the Heavenly Master and Judge: [...]

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Talk on the Sunday of the Last Judgment

A little late (due to difficulties in translation and a business trip) but always a good reminder. I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ…He shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead. Who says this? Every Christian does. If that is true then, without a doubt, both I and every one [...]

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On progress

O marvelous progress! O sage progress! O progress drawing one near to the bottom of hell!—And what of the progress of living, heartfelt faith? what of the progress of Christian love? …Christian love not only in the most basic, immediate sense, but also the kind that fills the glaring, horrifying needs of others who do [...]

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