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Palm Sunday 2019

21/4/2019

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In the Palm Sunday sermon, Father Nicholas Karipoff talks about our yearning for God – which is present in the vast majority of people, and yet despite this yearning, there is a lack of participation in our own salvation.

Fr. Nicholas cites the touching example of the French youth who were seen tearfully singing hymns as the Notre Dame cathedral burned recently. Despite the spiritual darkness in the world, humanity is still drawn to God.
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The crowd that met Christ with palm branches on His entry into Jerusalem came to see the vanquisher of death. Christ had risen Lazarus – a prominent citizen – from the dead, a man who had been dead for four days. This crowd is an example of us, instead of having faith we walk through life riddled with anxiety.  We are more concerned by our material world than the life to come. 

Instead of spiritual hope we have earthly attachments. The nation - the people were ready to accept Christ as an earthly king but could not understand the meaning of His spiritual kingdom.
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All of creation rejoices in you, O full of grace

7/4/2019

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In this sermon Father Nicholas Karipoff sheds light on the meaning of the joyous feast of the Annunciation. It is full of hope and anticipation, he explains, because it is the beginning of the coming Salvation.

The composition of the Annunciation is one of the most widely depicted in Christian art and the icon is always on the Royal Doors which lead to the altar in an Orthodox Church. In it you will see the archangel Gabriel facing the young ascetic, the Virgin Mary, who has reached the ultimate level of God-pleasing humility and who is to give the Lord Jesus Christ His humanity.

Saint Gregory of Palamas reasoned that it was only through a virgin birth that the Saviour, the New Man could be conceived.
"She is the place wherein was accomplished the co-uniting of natures, wherein was affirmed the counsel of salvific reconciliation."

Saint Proclus of Constantinople on the Holy Mother of God.
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The Royal Doors for the church of St Helena in Saint Petersburg showing the Annunciation.
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