Patristic Homilies

Homilies by the Holy Fathers on the feasts of the Church, commentaries on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, and other patristic sermons.

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

• Thomas Sunday - Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky)

• Sunday of the Paralytic - St. Cyril of Alexandria

• Sunday of the Blind Man - Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky)

• 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

• Concerning the Baptism of Heretics - St. Cyprian of Carthage