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This is a collection of our sermons, articles and videos of catechism classes and more.

Advent retreat with Fr. Gregory Horton

Loving the Way God Loves The word love has become difficult to define within the modern context, definitions and preferences now available to us. There are many examples of Christian Love throughout the History of the Church. By incorporating this worldview into our own daily lives, we can actually live as God intended us to…

Love to the End

If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we…

Marriage Advice at Cana

Advice at the Wedding in Cana At that time there was a marriage at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there; Jesus also was invited to the marriage, with his disciples.  When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”  And Jesus said to her,…

Newly Illumined Veronica and Monika

Glory to God for all things! We welcomed Isabelle (Veronica) Hug, and Monika Hardi into our parish this Sunday. May God grant you both many years.

Project Mexico Internship

Please help us support Lucy Stobbe as she interns at Project Mexico this summer. Donate online E-transfer You can also e-transfer your donation to treasurer@orthodoxsaskatoon.com and earmark it for Project Mexico. We will send the funds to Project Mexico on Lucy’s behalf. About Project Mexico Project Mexico organizes groups of Orthodox Christians to build affordable houses…

Begging To Be Saved

You are a Christian when nothing matters more in your life than the lost sheep being saved from the wolf. You are a Christian when that is what makes you tick. May Jesus give you a sense of crisis and desperation that motivates you.

Longing to Follow Christ

The apostles’ preaching is the voice of God. We live in the Kingdom of Heaven when we do what they teach. They teach us to become one with Jesus by leaving everything else behind.

Seeds of Martyrdom

God has given us reminders to help us recognize these possibilities. We have reminders surrounding us. Here. We have a great host of examples of people who have answered that call. That is why we have icons. The icons show us people who were just Christians. The moment for martyrdom came, and they were prepared.…

Offering the Bread of Life

Jesus says, “How does God save his people? He sends me. I am what God is giving you. I am the bread of life. You can live and prosper if you have me.”

Why Did Jesus Die?

Jesus did not die so that we do not have to. He died so that we would carry our cross and die to sin.

Orthodox Christian life is liturgy.

An Orthodox Christian is responsible for saving the world. We do this by joining our lives to the life of the Saviour of the world, Jesus Christ. We are part of the body of Christ who is always saving the world. In order to save the world, Orthodox Christians provide their community with life-giving worship.…

Easy Forgiveness

“Afterward Jesus appeared again to his disciples, by the Sea of Galilee. It happened this way: Simon Peter, Thomas (also known as Didymus ), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together. “I’m going out to fish,” Simon Peter told them, and they said, “We’ll go with you.”…

Does God answer prayers?

We do not know what we should pray for. We ask God to help us to pray for His will to be done. We ask God to help us to trust him. Help us to do right. We ask for the strength to keep trusting Him and to keep loving the people around us. We…

Fasting to feed the five thousand

People follow us when we stand for something. When we stand for it to the point that it costs us something, whether we are persecuted or simply on the margins, people see that we have something worth holding on to.

Salvation is not supernatural: it is the restoration of our nature

During the first week of Lent we had readings that spoke of urgency in our lives. It is fitting, since Great Lent is a season of sober assessment of our characters and our lifestyle. The readings said such things as, “watch and pray,” “do not be weighed down with drunkenness,” “when you fast and when…

Facing the truth

“… the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, People know…

Lent is a season to do things!

The Lord said, “What is the kingdom of God like? And to what should I compare it? It is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in the garden; it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches.” And again he said, “To what should…

MATTHEW 15:21-28

At that time, Jesus went to the district of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and cried, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely possessed by a demon.” But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged…

Retreat on Death and Bereavement

Sarah Byrne-Martelli gave a retreat with us, talking about Bereavement from the perspective of an Orthodox Christian chaplain.

The best seats at the wedding banquet

“On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the sabbath, they were watching him closely. Just then, in front of him, there was a man who had dropsy. And Jesus asked the lawyers and Pharisees, “Is it lawful to cure people on…

Women Disciples

O Lord, the woman who had fallen into many sins, perceiving Thy Divinity, fulfilled the part of a myrrh-bearer …

The Lord’s Prayer

(Luke 11:1–10) Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.” So He said to them, “When you pray, say: “          Our Father in heaven,            Hallowed be Your name.           …

All in it together

At that time, standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!”…

Sermon for the feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos.

If we speak out on behalf of the “victims” of God’s calling to holiness, we risk making ourselves the saviour of the people, and we end up portraying God as the enemy from which people must be saved. If, on the other extreme, we feel compelled to speak out because society has become unbearable sinful,…

Sunday of the 1st Ecumenical Council

At that time, Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him power over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you…

Freedom from pride

MARK 10:32-45 At that time, Jesus took his twelve disciples, and he began to tell them what was to happen to him, saying, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and deliver him…

Proskomedi (part 1)

The Holy Spirit moves in the Church. The Church received the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

Praying with Jesus

At that time, Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up into the hills by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, but the boat by this time was…

On this Rock: the faith of St. Peter

At that time, when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do men say that the Son of man is?” And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He said to them, “But who do you say that…

MATTHEW 27:33-54

At that time, when the soldiers came to a place called Golgotha (which means the place of a skull), they offered him wine to drink, mingled with gall; but when he tasted it, he would not drink it. And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments among them by casting lots; then they…

Can Orthodoxy Survive in Secular Sweden?

Fr. Herman and Kh. Anna were part of an Orthodox Mission in Sweden, a secular, formerly Lutheran country. Because the Swedish Church has abandoned all Christian values, Christians are pouring into traditional churches, especially the Orthodox Church.