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Patriarch Kirill: “Being a Clergyman Today Means Scaling the Most Difficult and Greatest Heights”

October 29, 2014 Filed under: Leave a Comment

by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow October 26, 2014. His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, presided over the Great Consecration of a church in honor of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian on the premises of the Saratov Theological Seminary and celebrated the Divine … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Vocation Tagged With: clergy, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, sermon, Vocation

On The Day Of His Ordination To The Priesthood

May 13, 2013 Filed under: 1 Comment

HOMILY GIVEN BY ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM ON THE DAY HE WAS ORDAINED PRIEST St. John Chrysostom was called to the priesthood and ordained by Flavian, bishop of Antioch, early in the year 386.  This is the date of his first sermon: he had not yet descended into the lists, as he himself puts it.  What will … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Preaching, Preparation, Priest, Vocation Tagged With: homily, ordination, Priesthood, sermon, St. John Chrysostom

Congregations Gone Wild

August 21, 2011 Filed under: 4 Comments

by G. Jeffrey MacDonald The American clergy is suffering from burnout, several new studies show. And part of the problem, as researchers have observed, is that pastors work too much. Many of them need vacations, it’s true. But there’s a more fundamental problem that no amount of rest and relaxation … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Preaching, Preparation Tagged With: burnout, clergy, G. Jeffrey MacDonald, sermon, Vocation

Sermon On The Day of His Ordination

May 20, 2011 Filed under: Leave a Comment

by St. Leo the Great Our father among the saints, Leo the Great was the bishop of Rome during difficult times. He was an eminent scholar of Scripture and rhetoric. During an invasion by Attila the Hun, St. Leo met him outside the gates of Rome. After some short words, to everyone’s surprise, Attila … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Preaching, Priest, Vocation Tagged With: ordination, Pope, Rome, sermon, St. Leo the Great

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