Daily Audio Messages

Bobby Maddex interviews Kenneth Kidd, the Annual Gifts Officer for the Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC), about OCMC's Agape Canister Program.

Source: ancientfaith.com

A conversation with Dr. Marcus Plested, Academic Director of The Institute of Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge. Learn about the summer studies program and consider participating July 18-23 with Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, Fr. Andrew Louth, and others.

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Throughout the Pascal season, the Church reads from the Acts of the Apostles, a history book, in place of the Epistles during the Divine Liturgy. In this homily for Pascha, Fr. Pat asks, "What does the resurrection of Christ mean to human history?" (7:57)

Source: ancientfaith.com

Today's reading is from Acts 8: 18-25

Should some be allowed to exchange money for leadership in the church?  Radio Host Fr. Tom Soroka answers this question.

In this fiftieth and final episode of the current series of A Word From the Holy Fathers, we examine a poignant reflection on ‘the wonder of the Incarnation’ by St Gregory of Nazianzus. The broadcast concludes with a small announcement about the conclusion of this series, and advance notice of its return with a new series in a month’s time.

Source: monachos.net

In a broadcast for the Feast of the Nativity According to the Flesh of the Lord Jesus Christ, we reflect on two hymns of St Ephrem the Syrian, and a portion of a homily by St John of Shanghai and San Francisco, on the glory of the night of Christ’s full revelation.

Source: monachos.net

In this season of Christ’s incarnate coming in the flesh, we take a moment to reflect, through the words of St Cyril of Alexandria, on the role of the Virgin Theotokos in the nativity of the true God, Jesus Christ.

Source: monachos.net

What has a man whose obedience once caused a barren stick to blossom forth a tree in the desert, to tell us today about the life of virtue? Is it possible for man today to partake of all the virtues? In this week’s broadcast, we examine two sayings of Fr John the Short of Egypt on the accessibility of all the virtues through the foundation of the love of neighbour.

Source: monachos.net

In this week’s broadcast, we offer a reflection on a selection of sayings of St John Chrysostom on the pastoral nature of fasting as an act of charity. In what sense does our fast minister to our neighbour?

What are we to make of the Genesis account of Cain and Abel? In this broadcast of A Word From the Holy Fathers we examine a portion of St Cyprian of Carthage’s Treatise on the Lord’s Prayer that shows forth Abel as the first martyr, the example of true self-sacrifice. And it is a lesson with a practical aim: the quenching of anger and hatred, and the discovery of a life offered more wholly to God.

Source: monachos.net