Saint Sophrony of Essex Resource Page

St. Sophrony of Essex (Feast Day - July 11)

Verses

Sophronios greatly shined in his life,
Now he more than shines in the chorus of the Saints.
On the eleventh Sophronios was placed with the Spirit of God.

 

Synaxarion of our Venerable and God-Bearing Father Sophrony of Essex 

 

Elder Sophrony (Sakharov) of Essex (+ 1993) 

 

The Last Days of Elder Sophrony (+ 11 July 1993)

 

A Short Film of the Life of Saint Sophrony of Essex By and For Children

 

Saint Sophrony and the Children That Visited Him

 

The Legacy of Saint Sophrony the Hagiorite (An Interview With Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)

 

The First Meeting of Saint Sophrony of Essex and Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos
 

Athonite Neo-Hesychast Fathers (3 of 3)

 

Contemporary Testimonies of the Vision of God on the Holy Mountain  

Archimandrite Zacharias on the Theology of St. Silouan and Elder Sophrony

 

Two Introductory Books on Modern Orthodox Spirituality Recommended by Fr. John Romanides

 

Metr. Kallistos of Diokleia on Elder Sophrony   

 

An Interview With Elder Sophrony About Saint Silouan the Athonite (1 of 4) 

 

An Interview With Elder Sophrony About Saint Silouan the Athonite (2 of 4)  

 

An Interview With Elder Sophrony About Saint Silouan the Athonite (3 of 4)

 

An Interview With Elder Sophrony About Saint Silouan the Athonite (4 of 4)

 

The Unity of Saint Silouan and Saint Sophrony (1 of 5)

 

The Unity of Saint Silouan and Saint Sophrony (2 of 5)

 

The Unity of Saint Silouan and Saint Sophrony (3 of 5)

 

The Unity of Saint Silouan and Saint Sophrony (4 of 5)

 

The Unity of Saint Silouan and Saint Sophrony (5 of 5)

 

The Mystical Journey of the Christian, Through the Desert, Towards the Resurrection and Pentecost (1 of 5)

  

The Mystical Journey of the Christian, Through the Desert, Towards the Resurrection and Pentecost (2 of 5)

 

The Mystical Journey of the Christian, Through the Desert, Towards the Resurrection and Pentecost (3 of 5)

 

The Mystical Journey of the Christian, Through the Desert, Towards the Resurrection and Pentecost (4 of 5) 

 

The Mystical Journey of the Christian, Through the Desert, Towards the Resurrection and Pentecost (5 of 5 

A Morning Prayer by Elder Sophrony of Essex

 

A Christmas Card from Elder Sophrony Saharov

 

The Incarnation as the Foundation of our Spiritual Life (Elder Sophrony) 

 

Elder Sophrony: "Every Divine Liturgy is a Theophany"

 
Elder Sophrony: The Basics of the Divine Liturgy

 

Before the New Testament, Was the Divine Liturgy

The Divine Liturgy is the Greatest Mission of the Church

 

The Light of the Transfiguration Confirms the Knowledge of God

 

Elder Sophrony on the Lowest and Loftiest Spiritual States 

 

Elder Sophrony on the Calendar Issue

 

Elder Sophrony on the Toll Houses, Hell and Paradise 

 

Elder Sophrony: "The World Does Not Need a Political Church"

 

Academic Theology is Not Enough for Salvation

 

Elder Sophrony: The Salvation of the Heterodox

 

Elder Sophrony: On Eastern Religions  

Elder Sophrony and the Union of Churches

 

Why So Few Writings By Holy Women?  

Married Life and Praying Like Ascetics

 

Elder Sophrony: 'All Humanity in a State of Accidie'

 

Saint Sophrony of Essex on Saint Seraphim of Sarov

A Prayerful Encounter Between Saint Porphyrios and Elder Sophrony

 

The Gift of Tongues is Repeated in the Lives of the Saints Till This Day (Metr. Athanasios of Limassol)

 

When Saint Nicholas Appeared to Elder Andrew of Saint Paul's on Mount Athos in 1975

 

The Appearance of Saint Nicholas to Elder Andrew in 1975 

 

Ecumenical Patriarch Announces the Canonization of Elder Sophrony of Essex

 

Elder Sophrony of Essex and Elder Hieronymos of Simonopetra Officially Canonized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate 

 

Two Chapels Dedicated to the Newly-Canonized Saints Kallinikos of Edessa and Sophrony of Essex in Nafpaktos  

 

Ecumenical Patriarch Announces the Canonization of Elder Sophrony of Essex

Today, 22 October 2019, shortly before his departure from Mount Athos, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew announced that he will proceed with the canonization of Elder Sophrony of Essex (+ 1993), spiritual child of Saint Silouan the Athonite. He joins the list as the fifth revered 20th century Athonite Elder whose canonization was announced by Patriarch Bartholomew upon his visit to the Holy Mountain. The other four include: Hieronymos of Simonopetra (+ 1957), Daniel of Katounakia (+ 1929), Joseph the Hesychast (+ 1959) and Ephraim of Katounakia (+ 1998).

The Unity of Saint Silouan and Saint Sophrony (5 of 5)

 ...continued from part four.

8. On Prayer

It is an amazing book, which includes what is most selectively written about the theology of prayer and its practice. In Russian (original) it was published in 1991, in English it was published in 1985 and in Greek it was published in 1993 first in the puristic language and then in 2009 in the demotic.

It is divided into three parts. In the first part, a theological analysis of prayer is made, that is, "Prayer as an Endless Creation", "Prayer as the Way to Knowledge", "Prayer Overcomes the Impasse of Tragedy", regarding prayer made with effort in which man is regenerated, for eternity. In the second part there is a special discourse about the Prayer of Jesus, the well-known "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me" and specifically called "The Jesus Prayer", "The Jesus Prayer: Method", "The Jesus Prayer for All Times and Occasions". The third part talks about the "Spiritual Life" and "The Role of the Father-Confessor". At the end are published the morning prayer "When Awakening From Sleep", and the "liturgical prayers" compiled by Saint Sophrony to be read in the Divine Liturgy after the Gospel and before the beginning of the Liturgy of the Faithful, to prepare those who are in attendance for their participation in the Divine Liturgy and the Divine Communion of the Body and Blood of Christ. Also, the prayers "For the Reposed", "For the Reposed Priests" and "Prayer for Unity" are also published.

Elder Sophrony (Sakharov) of Essex (+ 1993)

By Monk Moses the Athonite

He was born in Moscow in 1896 and his lay name was Sergei Symeonovich Sakharov. As he himself recalls, his first experience of the vision of the uncreated light occurred in his childhood. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Moscow. At one stage, his religious pursuits took him into non-Christian mysticism. His artistic ambitions led him to Italy, Germany and France. He found, however, that art neither fulfilled nor enlightened him.

His return to the love of Christ resulted in a new, very powerful experience of the uncreated light at Easter of 1924, in Paris. While there he was influenced by his acquaintance with Fr. Sergei Bulgakov (†1944). As he himself says, "In Paris, I had everything, but there was no real joy." He attended the Institute of Saint Sergius to find and learn. He would later say, "At Saint Sergius everyone spoke about God but I didn’t see Him. When I went to the Holy Mountain, though, nobody spoke about God but everything pointed to Him."

Saints and Feasts of July 11

On the eleventh the definition was wondrously 

and firmly set by Euphemia.

Commemoration of the Miracle at the 

Tomb of the Holy Great Martyr Euphemia 

During the Fourth Ecumenical Synod

Saint Euphemia Resource Page

Holy Martyr Kindeos the Presbyter

Synaxarion of the Holy Martyr Kindeos the Presbyter

Venerable Leo of Mandra

Venerable Leo of Mandra

Holy Martyr Marcian

Holy Martyr Marcian

Holy Martyr Martyrokles

Holy Martyr Martyrokles

Holy Right-Believing Princess Olga 

the Equal to the Apostles

 

Holy Princess Olga of Kiev, Equal to the Apostles (+ 969)

 

Saint Olga, Equal to the Apostles, as a Model for our Lives

 

July: Day 11: Holy Right-Believing Princess Olga

Saint Arsenios, Patriarch of Alexandria

Saint Arsenios, Patriarch of Alexandria (+ 1010)

Venerable Nikodemos of Vatopaidi

Saint Nikodemos of Vatopaidi, Teacher of Saint Gregory Palamas (+ 1322)

Holy New Venerable Martyr Nikodemos 

of Vithkuq in Albania

 

Holy New Martyr Nikodemos the Albanian of Vithkuq (+ 1722)

 

Celebrating the Holy New Venerable Martyr Nikodemos in Berat, Albania
 

 

Holy New Venerable Martyr Nektarios of Vryoulla

Holy New Martyr Nektarios of Vryoulla (+ 1820)

Venerable Cyril the New of Paros

Saint Cyril the New of Paros (+ 1833)

Venerable Sophrony of Essex 

  

Saint Sophrony of Essex Resource Page

 

Translation of the Relics of Saint Barbara 

from Constantinople to Kiev

Translation of the Relics of Saint Barbara from Constantinople to Kiev

Uncovering of the Relics of Saint Arcadius 
of Vyazma and Novy Torg

Saint Arcadius of Vyazma and Novy Torg (+ 1077)

Synaxis of the Rzhevsk Icon of the Mother of God

Synaxis of the Icon of the Mother of God of Rzhevsk

The Unity of Saint Silouan and Saint Sophrony (4 of 5)

...continued from part three.

6. Words of Life

This book was originally published in French in 1992, the year before Saint Sophrony died, and was published in Greek in 1995. It is not a book written by Saint Sophrony, but brief extracts from his oral talks.

As Maxime Egger writes in his introductory note to the Greek translation, in 1990 he remained for a long time in the Holy Monastery of the Honorable Forerunner in Essex, England, where he attended some oral homilies of Saint Sophrony to the brotherhood, and he also had heard about 40 previous homilies that were recorded and he collected some excerpts from them and published them, in the manner of the chapters of various saints recorded in the "Philokalia of the Sacred Neptics". These homilies were later published in their entirety in three volumes titled "Hearken, my Beloved Brethren".

These excerpts of these homilies were set by Maxime Egger as "a whole with continuity and consistency", which was given to Saint Sophrony who "recognized in them his own self" and gave it to him to be published. The same collector gave the title "On Spirit and Life" from the words of Christ "the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life" (John 6:63). Indeed, in these "spiritual chapters" one can see the "Spirit" and the "Life" spring forth, it is an expression of a great struggle, of about ninety years, and they offer a sense of eternal life in the Spirit.

How Should We Understand the Visions of Aerial Toll Houses?

By John Sanidopoulos

In modern times a teaching has arisen and become popular among Orthodox Christians regarding what is known as the Aerial or Celestial Toll Houses. It is based on numerous references to ecclesiastical fathers and writers from the early days of the Church to the present. It was especially developed after the tenth century in Slavic circles, while hardly ever mentioned in any detail by Greek writers. Taken literally, it refers to the idea that upon death the soul of an individual is escorted by angels through the celestial atmosphere, and it goes through a number of tolls or customs where demons accuse the soul of particular sins they committed in life. The escorting angel tries to defend the soul as much as possible, but if a soul is found to be guilty of a particular sin, then with the evidence mounted against the soul the demon takes it and drags it to Hades. This is a foretaste of the Final Judgment, when these condemned souls will be united with their bodies in the general resurrection and cast into the eternal lake of fire with Satan and his demons.

A Prayerful Encounter Between Saint Porphyrios and Elder Sophrony

With his gift of discernment Elder Porphyrios got to know another great Elder of our days, the Russian Starets Sophrony, founder and first abbot of the Holy Monastery of the Forerunner in Essex, England.

He wrote many books, among them being the internationally famous, Saint Silouan the Athonite, which has been translated into many languages. Elder Sophrony lived with Elder Silouan, who was proclaimed a saint in 1987, for nine years.

In November 1990, we had the privilege of meeting Elder Sophrony in Essex and talking to him. He told me that he used to meet Elder Porphyrios in prayer every night. They each knew what the other one looked like, even though they had never seen one another with their physical eyes. Elder Porphyrios had never seen Elder Sophrony, and vice versa.

Synaxarion of our Venerable and God-Bearing Father Sophrony of Essex

By Athanasios, Hieromonk of Simonopetra

Synaxarion

On the 11th of this month (July), we commemorate our Venerable and God-bearing Father Sophronios, the Hagiorite, Founder and Builder of the Sacred and Stavropegic Monastery of the Honorable and Glorious Forerunner and Baptist John in Essex of England, where he venerably reposed in the Lord in the year 1993.

Verses

Sophronios greatly shined in his life,
Now he more than shines in the chorus of the Saints.
On the eleventh Sophronios was placed with the Spirit of God.

A Resource Page on the Nativity of Christ in the Church Fathers, Saints and Teachers

General

Orthodox Christmas Reflection (1)

Orthodox Christmas Reflection (2)

Orthodox Christmas Reflection (3)

Why Jesus Came Into the World

The Patristic Understanding of the Virgin Birth of Christ

Did Christ Have A Fallen Human Nature?

The Erythraean Sibyl and Her Prophetic Acrostic Concerning the Coming of Christ

All The Saints Gather To Worship The Incarnate God


Saint Gregory Thaumaturgus

Discourse on the Nativity of Christ (St. Gregory Thaumaturgus)


Saint Athanasius the Great

Why Did God Become Man? The Answer of St. Athanasios


Saint Ephraim the Syrian

St. Ephraim the Syrian's 100 Stanzas on the Nativity

St. Ephraim's Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ

St. Ephraim the Syrian on Christ's Divine and Human Natures

 

Saint Cyril of Jerusalem  

 

Catechesis on the Creedal Words "the Only-Begotten Son of God, Begotten of the Father Very God Before All Ages, by Whom All Things Were Made" (St. Cyril of Jerusalem)

 

Catechesis on the Creedal Words "Incarnate" and "Made Man" (St. Cyril of Jerusalem)   

 

 

Saint Gregory of Nyssa 

 

Homily on the Nativity of Christ (St. Gregory of Nyssa) 

 

 

Saint Gregory the Theologian 

 

Oration on the Theophany or Birthday of Christ (St. Gregory the Theologian) 

 

 

Saint John Chrysostom 

 

A Homily in Preparation for the Celebration of Christmas (St. John Chrysostom) 

 

Nativity Sermon of St. John Chrysostom 

 

"On the Day of the Birth of Our Savior Jesus Christ" by St. John Chrysostom 

 

St. John Chrysostom's Second Homily on the Birth of our Savior Jesus Christ 

 

 

Saint Epiphanios of Salamis

 

Juxtaposing the Birth and Rebirth of Christ (St. Epiphanios of Salamis)

 

 

Saint Jerome

A Christmas Sermon of Saint Jerome

The 70 Weeks Prophecy of Daniel According to St. Jerome

Saint Leo the Great   

Sermon 1 on the Fast of Advent (St. Leo the Great)

Sermon 2 on the Fast of Advent (St. Leo the Great)

Sermon 3 on the Fast of Advent (St. Leo the Great) 

Sermon 4 on the Fast of Advent (St. Leo the Great)

Sermon 5 on the Fast of Advent (St. Leo the Great)

Sermon 6 on the Fast of Advent (St. Leo the Great)

Sermon 7 on the Fast of Advent (St. Leo the Great)

Sermon 8 on the Fast of Advent (St. Leo the Great)

First Homily of Saint Leo the Great on the Nativity of Christ 

 

Second Homily of Saint Leo the Great on the Nativity of Christ 

 

Third Homily of Saint Leo the Great on the Nativity of Christ 

 

Fourth Homily of Saint Leo the Great on the Nativity of Christ 

 

Fifth Homily of Saint Leo the Great on the Nativity of Christ 

 

Sixth Homily of Saint Leo the Great on the Nativity of Christ 

 

Seventh Homily of Saint Leo the Great on the Nativity of Christ  

 

Eighth Homily of Saint Leo the Great on the Nativity of Christ

 

 

Saint Cyril of Alexandria  

 

Sermon on the Nativity of Christ (St. Cyril of Alexandria)

 

Discourse on the Birth of our Savior in the Flesh (St. Cyril of Alexandria)

Desert Fathers

Christ Came to Pass Through All the Ranks of the Priesthood


Kyros Panopolites

The Remarkable Christmas Homily of Kyros Panopolites


Saint Romanos the Melodist

The Christmas Kontakia of St. Romanos


Saint Maximus the Confessor

The Divine Economy According to Saint Maximos the Confessor

Why Jesus Had To Be Virgin Born - St. Maximus the Confessor Explains

Maximus the Confessor: "God Divided the Ages Wisely"


Saint Isaac the Syrian

Saint Isaac the Syrian on the Birth of Christ 

 

Saint John of Damascus

 

The Second Christmas Canon of Saint John of Damascus 

 

The Orthodox Doctrine of Virgin Mary as the Mother of God

Saint Theodore the Studite

"On the Nativity of the Savior and the Vigorous Pursuit of our Ascetic Life" (St. Theodore the Studite)


Saint Symeon the New Theologian

The Word Became Flesh: The Inexpressible Mystery of Salvation (St. Symeon the New Theologian)

On the Incarnation of the Word (St. Symeon the New Theologian)

 

Saint Neophytos the Recluse 

Homily on the Immaculate and Divine Nativity of Our Great God and Savior Jesus Christ (St. Neophytos the Recluse) 


Saint Gregory Palamas

Homily on the Nativity of Christ (St. Gregory Palamas)


Bishop Theophilos of Campania

On the Incarnation of the Son of God


Saint Nikodemos the Hagiorite

St. Nikodemos Explains How We Came to Celebrate Christmas on December 25th

Prayer to the Lord Who Was Born (St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite)

 

 

Archpriest Rodion Putyatin

 

Homily for the Eve of the Nativity of Christ (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

 

First Homily for the Day of the Nativity of Christ (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

 

Second Homily for the Day of the Nativity of Christ (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

 

Third Homily for the Day of the Nativity of Christ (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

 

Fourth Homily for the Day of the Nativity of Christ (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

 

Fifth Homily for the Day of the Nativity of Christ (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

 

Sixth Homily for the Day of the Nativity of Christ (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

 

First Homily on the Second Day of the Nativity of the Lord (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

 

Second Homily on the Second Day of the Nativity of the Lord (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

 

Saint Theophan the Recluse

A Reflection on the Nativity of the Lord (St. Theophan the Recluse)

Saint John of Kronstadt 

 

Homily Before Christmas (St. John of Kronstadt)

 

Homily One on the Nativity of Christ (St. John of Kronstadt)

 

Homily Two on the Nativity of Christ (St. John of Kronstadt)

 

Homily Three on the Nativity of Christ (St. John of Kronstadt) 

 

 

Saint Chrysostomos of Smyrna

 

A Christmas Message From St. Chrysostomos of Smyrna in 1912

Saint Luke of Simferopol

Homily One on the Nativity of Christ (St. Luke of Simferopol)

Homily Two on the Nativity of Christ (St. Luke of Simferopol)   

Homily Three on the Nativity of Christ (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily Four on the Nativity of Christ (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily Five on the Nativity of Christ (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily on the Second Day of Christmas (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily on the Bronze Serpent and the Nativity of Christ (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

The Ecumene is the Church That Christ Established (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Saint Nikolai Velimirovich

"Prologue" Reading for Christmas by St. Nikolai Velimirovich

The Christmas of a Lonely Woman (St. Nikolai Velimirovich)

Saint John Maximovitch   

 

1935 Nativity Message of St. John Maximovitch

 

1947 Nativity Message of St. John Maximovitch 

 

1951 Nativity Message of St. John Maximovitch

 

1952 Nativity Message of St. John Maximovitch 

 

1953 Nativity Message of St. John Maximovitch 

 

1954 Nativity Message of St. John Maximovitch 

 

1955 Nativity Message of St. John Maximovitch 

 

1956 Nativity Message of St. John Maximovitch 

 

1960 Nativity Message of St. John Maximovitch 

 

1962 Nativity Message of St. John Maximovitch

 

1963 Nativity Message of St. John Maximovitch

 

Christ Is Born, Glorify Him! (St. John Maximovitch)

 

Saint Justin Popovich

A Christmas Epistle by St. Justin Popovich

The Word Became Flesh: A Christmas Sermon of St. Justin Popovich


Papa Tychon the Athonite

Christmas With Papa Tychon


Saint Sophrony of Essex

The Incarnation as the Foundation of our Spiritual Life (Elder Sophrony)

A Christmas Card from Elder Sophrony Saharov 

 

Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyva

 

Saint Porphyrios and the Visit of Divine Grace Before Christmas: A True Testimony Similar to "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

 

When Saint Porphyrios Experienced Christmas on the Holy Mountain in Spirit

 

Christmas with Holy Elder Porphyrios 23 Years Apart

 

Saint Paisios the Athonite

Elder Paisios the Athonite on Christmas

Elder Paisios: On How We Should Celebrate Feasts


Saint Iakovos of Evia

When St. Iakovos of Evia Celebrated Christmas in the Forest

 

Saint Bessarion of Agathonos

 

Saint Bessarion of Agathonos Remembers the Christmas of 1941

 

 

Saint Ephraim of Katounakia

 

"When I Went to the Cave of Bethlehem, My Heart Broke There" (St. Ephraim of Katounakia)

 

Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi

Christmas 2008 With Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi

   

Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra 

 

Christmas is Coming (Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra)

 

 

Two Chapels Dedicated to the Newly-Canonized Saints Kallinikos of Edessa and Sophrony of Essex in Nafpaktos

In honor of the one year anniversary of the canonization of his Elder, Saint Kallinikos of Edessa, which took place on 23 June 2020, Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos celebrated a Divine Liturgy, preached a sermon, did an artoklasia and blessed a festal kollyva on Tuesday 23 June 2021. The Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the first chapel dedicated to Saint Kallinikos, which is in the Church of Saint Paraskevi in Nafpaktos. The consecration of this chapel took place the day before, on the Monday of the Holy Spirit. Metropolitan Hierotheos expressed how he was deeply moved to consecrate this chapel as a Bishop to his late Elder, whom he greatly revered and wrote books about.

Metropolitan Hierotheos further explained how the two Holy Altars in the two niches on the north side and the south side of the Church of Saint Pareskevi will both be chapels. The one is the already consecrated Chapel of Saint Kallinikos of Edessa and the other will be consecrated next month and will be dedicated to Saint Sophrony of Essex, another holy Elder whom Metropolitan Hierotheos had many conversations with and authored books about.

A Resource Page on the Theophany of Christ in the Church Fathers, Saints and Teachers

Various Church Fathers

Prefigurations of Baptism in the Old Testament


St. Hippolytus of Rome

Discourse on the Holy Theophany (St. Hippolytus of Rome)


St. Gregory Thaumaturgos

Discourse on the Holy Theophany (St. Gregory Thaumaturgus)


St. Cyril of Jerusalem

Why Was Jesus Baptized?

Why the Holy Spirit Descended as a Dove Upon Christ

The Baptism of Water and the Baptism of Blood

John the Baptist, the Greatest Among Servants and Prophets But Not the Master and Lord


St. Gregory of Nyssa

A Homily for the Day of Lights (St. Gregory of Nyssa)


St. Gregory the Theologian

Oration on the Holy Lights (St. Gregory the Theologian)


St. Ephraim the Syrian

Ephraim the Syrian: 15 Hymns For the Feast of Epiphany

 

St. John Chrysostom 

 

On the Holy Theophany (St. John Chrysostom)

 

 

St. Proclus of Constantinople

 

Oration on Holy Theophany (St. Proclus of Constantinople) 

 

St. Cyril of Alexandria

Homily on the Baptism of Christ (St. Cyril of Alexandria)

 

St. Leo the Great 

 

Four Homilies on Holy Epiphany by Leo the Great

 

 

St. Maximus of Turin

 

Six Epiphany Sermons by St. Maximus of Turin

St. Diadochos of Photiki

Grace and Sin Within Us Before and After Baptism (St. Diadochos of Photiki)


St. Romanos the Melodist

Kontakia on the Holy Theophany (St. Romanos the Melodist)


St. Sophronios of Jerusalem

The Theophany Prayer of St. Sophronios of Jerusalem 

 

St. John of Damascus 

 

The Eight Baptisms According to St. John of Damascus

 

 

St. Gregory Palamas

 

Homily on Baptism and Repentance for the Eve of Theophany (St. Gregory Palamas)   

 

 

St. Damaskinos the Studite

Why Did Jesus Choose to be Baptized in the Jordan River?

  

Archpriest Rodion Putyatin

 

Homily on the Day of the Theophany of the Lord (Archpriest Rodion Putyatin)

St. Theophan the Recluse

What Was Revealed on Theophany? (St. Theophan the Recluse)


St. Philaret the Confessor

Homily on the Theophany (St. Philaret the Confessor)   

 

Archpriest Grigory Dyachenko 

 

The Theophany of the Lord: Homily 1: History of the Feast and Its Moral and Dogmatic Lessons (Archpriest Grigory Dyachenko) 

 

The Theophany of the Lord: Homily 2: On the Divine Service on the Feast of the Theophany of the Lord (Archpriest Grigory Dyachenko) 

 

The Theophany of the Lord: Homily 3: On the Divine Service on the Feast of the Theophany of the Lord (Archpriest Grigory Dyachenko) 

 

January: Day 6: Teaching 1: The Baptism of the Lord

 

January: Day 6: Teaching 2: The Feast of Theophany

 

January: Day 6: Teaching 3: The Baptism of the Lord 

 

St. John of Kronstadt 

 

Homily One for the Holy Theophany of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ (St. John of Kronstadt)

 

Homily Two for the Holy Theophany of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ (St. John of Kronstadt)

 

Homily Three for the Holy Theophany of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ (St. John of Kronstadt) 

 

 

Righteous Alexei Mechev 

 

Homily on the Day of Theophany (Righteous Alexei Mechev)

 

St. Chrysostomos of Smyrna

 

Homily on Holy Theophany (St. Chrysostomos of Smyrna)

 

St. Luke of Simferopol

 

Homily for the Sunday Before Theophany (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily One on the Theophany of the Lord (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily Two on the Theophany of the Lord (St. Luke of Simferopol)

Homily Three on the Theophany of the Lord (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily on the Disposition of Saint John the Baptist (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily on the Sunday After Theophany (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily One for the Leavetaking of Theophany (St. Luke of Simferopol)

Homily Two for the Leavetaking of Theophany (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

 

St. Nikolai Velimirovich

On the Holy Theophany (St. Nikolai Velimirovich)

St. John Maximovitch 

 

Homily on the Day of the Theophany Before the Blessing of the Waters (St. John Maximovitch)

 

Homily One on the Feast of the Lord’s Theophany (St. John Maximovitch)

 

Homily Two on the Feast of the Lord’s Theophany (St. John Maximovitch)

 

Homily Three on the Feast of the Lord’s Theophany (St. John Maximovitch)

 

On the Holy Water of Theophany  

 

Homily on the Trinity Consubstantial and Indivisible (St. John Maximovitch)

 

 

St. Justin Popovich

 

The Theophany of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ (St. Justin Popovich)

 

 

Elder Sophrony of Essex 

 

Elder Sophrony: "Every Divine Liturgy is a Theophany"

Alexandros Papadiamantis

Theophany (An Essay of Alexandros Papadiamantis)

"All-Bright Theophany": A Short Story by Alexandros Papadiamantis 

 

Photios Kontoglou 

 

The Feast of Lights in Aivali (Photios Kontoglou) 

 

Photios Kontoglou Speaks About Holy Theophany (video)

 

 

Archimandrite George Kapsanis

 

Homily for the Feast of Theophany (Archim. George Kapsanis)

 

 

Father Daniel Sysoev 

 

Homily for the Baptism of Christ, or Theophany (Fr. Daniel Sysoev)