Category: Spiritual Lessons
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Sunday of the Paralytic
This week’s spiritual lesson: Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) (of thrice-blessed memory) preached a series of sermons on each of the Sundays of Pascha (and on many of the Sundays following) We will quote each of these sermons in the weeks that follow. For the Sunday of the Paralytic, he preached: Christ Is Risen! In the Name…
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Met Bloom’s conversion from atheism to the Orthodox faith
This week’s spiritual lesson: We concluded last week our long series of excerpts from the Diocesan conference by Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) at Effingham, England, in May, 1983. It occurs to me it might be useful to continue the Metropolitan’s account of his conversion from atheism to the Orthodox faith: …Then my leader explained to me…