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A Lamp for Today — 251 episodes

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Light from the Old Testament Upon the Acts 7: The Name, the Faith, and the Healing

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Light From the Old Testament Upon the Acts 6: The Mercy of the LORD

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Light from the Old Testament Upon the Acts 5: The Communion of Saints

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Light from the Old Testament Upon the Acts, Episode 4: Witnessing to Jesus

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Light from the Old Testament Upon Acts, Episode 3: The Great Reversal

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Light from the OT on Acts 2: The Guidance of the LORD

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Light from the Old Testament on Acts 1: The God Who Does Wonders!

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Light from Isaiah 3: The Suffering Servant Brings Peace and Glory

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Light from Isaiah 2: Wrath and Mercy

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Light from Isaiah 1: The Bad News and the Good News

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Light from the Old Testament Upon the Nativity 8: “That the Scriptures Might be Fulfilled”

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Light from the Old Testament Upon the Nativity 7: The Growth of God’s Son

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Light from the Old Testament Upon the Nativity 6: When the Days were Fulfilled

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Light from the Old Testament Upon the Nativity 5: Rejoice, O Barren Woman!

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Light from the Old Testament Upon the Nativity 4: The Blessed, the Humble, and the Mighty

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Light from the Old Testament Upon the Nativity 3: Our Lord and His Cousin

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Light from the Old Testament Upon the Nativity 2: The Promise of the Forerunner

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Light from the Old Testament Upon the Nativity 1: According to Luke

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Light from the Readable Books 32: The Ezra Apocalypse and Transfiguration

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Light from the Readable Books 31: 1 Esdras, the Domestic, and the Divine

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Light from the Readable Books 30: The Prayer of Manasseh, Repentance, and Forgiveness

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Light from the Readable Books 29: Psalm 151 and David the Small

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Light from the Readable Books 28: 4 Maccabees, God’s Reason, and the Passions

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Light from the Readable Books 27: 3 Maccabees and the Works of God in Egypt

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Light from the Readable Books 26: Maccabean War and Peace, Martyrdom and Resurrection

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Light from the Readable Books 25: Judas Maccabeus, the Happy Warrior

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Light from the Readable Books 24: Maccabean Resistance and Remembrance

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Light from the Readable Books 23: God’s “Timefulness” and 1 Maccabees

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Light from the Readable Books 22: The Epistle of Jeremiah and False Gods

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Light from the Readable Books 21: Baruch and the New Name

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Light from the Readable Books 20: Glimpsing Baruch’s Mystery of Wisdom

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Light from the Readable Books 19: Baruch’s Confession

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Light From (and Upon) the Readable Books 18: Baruch in Babylon

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Light From (and Upon) the Readable Books 17: Sirach and the Fathers

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Light From (and Upon) the Readable Books 16: Sirach and Lady Wisdom

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Light From (and Upon) the Readable Books 15: The Wisdom of Sirach and the Fear of the LORD

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Light From (and Upon) the Readable Books 14: Wisdom, Word, and Spirit of God

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Light From (and Upon) the Readable Books 13: Wisdom Found by Those Who Seek

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Light From and Upon the Readable Books 12: Solomon, Righteousness, and Wisdom

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Light From (and Upon) the Readable Books 11: Judith the Wise

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Light from the Readable Books 10: Prophecy and Prayer in Tobit

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Light From (and Upon) the Readable Books 9: Tobit: the Angel, the Dog, and the Humans

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Light From (and Upon) the Readable Books 8: Misinformation, Decrees, and the Life of Leaders

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Light From (and Upon) the Readables 7: Esther’s Humility and God’s Rescue

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Light From (and Upon) the Readable Books 6: Esther had a Good Dragon before Pete!

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Light From (and Upon) the Readable Books 5: Bel, the Dragon, and the King

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Light From (and Upon) the Readable Books 4: Susanna and the Enemies Within

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Light From (and Upon) the Readable Books 3: Blessed art Thou!

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Light From (and Upon) the Readable Books 2: Let Them Know that You are God!

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Light From (and Upon) the Readable Books I

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Light from the Psalter 23: Homo Adorans

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Light from the Psalter 22: The Great Confession

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Light from the Psalter 21: Mercy and Oil

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Light from the Psalter 20: Arriving in Zion

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Light from the Psalter 19: Out of the Depths

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Light from the Psalter 18: The Generous God

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Light from the Psalter 17: The Step of Safety, Sanctification, and the Holy Spirit

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Light from the Psalter 16: Ascending to God

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Light from the Psalms 15: Mercy in the Morning

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Light from the Psalter 14: Bless the LORD, O My Soul!

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Light from the Psalter 13: Showing Wonders to the Dead

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Light from the Psalter 12: Glorious Things are Spoken!

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Light from the Psalms 11: Seeking the LORD

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Light from the Psalter 10: God’s Wrath and God’s Healing

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Light from the Psalter 9 : Arise, O Lord!

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Light from the Psalter 8: He asked Life of Thee and Thou Gavest it to Him!

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Light from the Psalter 7: Rescued and Restored by the King

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Light from the Psalter 6: Robed in Majesty!

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Light from the Psalter 5: Crying Out of the Depths

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Light from the Psalter 4: I Cried to the LORD

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Light from the Psalter 3: Lamplight Lifting of the Hands

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Light From the Psalter 2: Blessed is the Man!

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Light from the Psalter I: It is Very Good!

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Light from the Canticles 12: Departing in Peace

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Light from the Canticles 11: Horn, House, Oath, and Day-Spring

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Light From the Canticles 10: Magnifying the Savior

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Light from the Canticles 9: Sing and Exalt Him!

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Light from the Canticles Episode 8: Azariah’s Confession and the Beginning of the Song

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Light from the Canticles Episode 7: Jonah's Cry from the Depths

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Light from the Canticles 6: Isaiah’s Yearning and Hope

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Light from the Canticles 5: With Habakuk in Humility, Hope and High Places

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Light from the Canticles 4: Hannah’s Humble Faith

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Light from the Canticles 3: No God Beside Him!

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Light from the Canticles 2: Remember the Days of Old!

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 40: Revelation Inside Out

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 39: Invitation to Worship and Life

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 38: The River, The Tree, and The Face

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 37: The Bride, the City, and the Eternal Light

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 36: New Heaven and New Earth

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 35: The Thousand Years and “Unto Ages of Ages”

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 34: Open Heaven, the White Rider with Many Names, and the Lake of Fire

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 33: Hallelujah Choruses, the Bride Who Clothes Herself & the Invitation

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 32: Babylon, Three Woes and a Funeral

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 31: Three Speeches About Babylon

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 30: Dark Mystery, the Dirty Deal, and Double-Dealing

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 29: The Seven Bowls, the Word of the LORD, and Remembering Babylon

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 28: The Sign of the Seven Angels, the Song, the Sea, and the Smoke

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 27: Wheat, Wine, and Judgment

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 26: Many Waters, Right Worship, and Solemn Words

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 25: The Second Beast from the Earth

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 24: The Dragon, the Beast, and the Lamb Slain

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 23: The War Continues

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 22: D-Day in Heaven

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 21: The Woman, the Dragon, and the Child

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 20: The Seventh Trumpet and the Unending Reign

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 19: On Measuring, Not Measuring, Witnessing, and Woes

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Lighting up the Apocalypse 18: The Bitter-Sweet Scroll

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 17: Fallen Star, Bound Angels, and Hardness of Heart

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 16: Silence, Trumpets, and Suspense

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 15: God's Sealing and Going Beyond

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 14: Wrath and Deliverance

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 13: The Lamb in Two Places

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 12: Sitting, Flying, and Falling Down

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 11: From the Amen to the Apathetic

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 10: Victor's Crown, Temple Pillars, and the New Jerusalem

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 9: Strengthen the Things That Remain!

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 8: Rewarding Works with the Morning Star

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Lighting up the Apocalypse 7: The Sword and the Stone

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Lighting Up the Apocalypse 6: Admitted to God's Counsel

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Lighting up the Apocalypse 5: One for All, and All for One

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Lighting up the Apocalypse 4: Our Times are in His Hands!

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Lighting up the Apocalypse 3: Our Brother Communicant Shows Us the LORD

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Lighting up the Apocalypse 2

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Lighting up the Apocalypse 1

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The Complete Community

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Continue in the Things That You Have Learned! The Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee

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Awaiting His Advent Actively

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Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Covid-19 Land

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Angels, Elections, and the Marks of the Lord: the Synaxis of the Archangels

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From, In, and For God: the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost

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Scattering Abroad and Thankful Generosity

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Pastors and Paradox: Sixteenth after Pentecost, First Sunday of Luke

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Exalting and Exulting in the Cross

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Traditions of First Importance: Twelfth Sunday of Matthew/after Pentecost

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An Unseemly Spectacle?  Tenth Sunday after Pentecost

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Speaking the Same Thing: The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost

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You First! Sunday of the Ecumenical Council(s)

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On Slaves, Fruit and Freedom: The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

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A Promise is a Promise?: The Sunday of All Saints

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“It Is More Blessed To Give Than To Receive:” Sunday of the Fathers of the First Ecumeni

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The Diaspora:  Disaster or Divine Dispensation?

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Multiplication, Ministry, and Maturity: The Third Sunday of Pascha

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Knowing the Times and Seasons—the Paschal Epistle

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Disinfecting the Conscience: The Fifth Sunday of Lent

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“Grace to Help in Time of Need”—The Cross, the Christ, and the Coronavirus

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“Of Whom the World Was Not Worthy”—The Righteous of the Old Covenant

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Are we not free? Food and the Faith (Epistle for the Sunday of the Last Judgment)

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Desiring to Recall Adam: The Resurrectional-Dismissal Theotokion in Tone 6

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Fourfold Joy! The Resurrectional Dismissal Theotokion in Tone Five - Sts Athanasius and Cyril

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The Treasure of our Resurrection: The Resurrectional-Dismissal Theotokion in Tone 7

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Something to Sing About! The Dogmatikon Theotokion in Tone Six

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Carrying Your Creator: The Dismissal-Resurrectional Theotokion in Tone 1

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Jesus in First Place: The Dismissal-Resurrectional Theotokion in Tone 8

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Even to the Angels Unknown! The Resurrectional-Dismissal Theotokion in Tone Four

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Gate, Temple, Palace, and Throne: Theotokion after the Aposticha, Tone Five

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All Beyond Thought! The Dismissal-Resurrectional Theotokion in Tone 2

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Mediatrix of our Salvation: The Dismissal Theotokion in the Third Tone

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The Great Demolition: Resurrectional Hymns in the Seventh Tone

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Ascending the Cross: The Resurrectional Hymns in Tone Five

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Dancing with the Prophets: the Resurrectional Hymns in Tone Three

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LORD and Lover of the Household—The Resurrectional Hymns in the First Tone

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“The Lightning of His Godhead:” The Resurrectional Hymns in the Second Tone

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From the Heights to the Depths: The Resurrectional Hymns in Tone 8 & the 9th Sunday after Pentecost

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Not Tempted by Hades? The Sunday of the Ecumenical Fathers and the Resurrectional Hymns - Sixth Tone

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Calling All Sinners: The Apostles, the Women Disciples, and the Resurrection Hymns in the 4th Tone

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Is our “Heavenly Father” Archaic and Unnecessary?

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Taking Time to Tell: Praising the Heroes and Heroines of our Faith on All Saints

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The Disturbed Mind, the Grasping Mind, the Single Mind and the Transformed Mind: the Sixth Sunday of

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Paralysis and Pride: Sunday of the Paralytic and Fourth of Pascha

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Shine, New Jerusalem!

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When A Woman is Like a Bush: Humility and the Annunciation

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Fourth Sunday of Lent and St. John Climacus: Following the Foremost Forerunner

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What About Melchizedek?: The Third Sunday of Lent

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On Babylon and Babies' Heads: Psalm 136 and Preparing for Lent

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Right but Dead Wrong!  Judgment Sunday

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Preparing to Prepare: The Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee

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Marked by the Light: The Leave-taking of Theophany

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“Ringing Out” and “Ringing In”: Leave-Taking of Nativity and Theophany

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The Expected and the Unexpected: Twenty-eighth after Pentecost and Sunday of the Forefathers

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Light in our Darkness: Fourteenth Sunday of Luke, Commemoration of the Prophet Zephaniah

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Sole Fide? Seventh Sunday of Luke, 21st Sunday after Pentecost

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St. Luke the Evangelist and What “Is Written”

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Daring to be Different: Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Second of Luke

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Ashamed of God?: The Sunday after the Elevation of the Holy Cross

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O LORD, Look Down Upon this Vineyard! Thirteenth after Pentecost, Thirteenth of Matthew

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Samuel the Prophet: Messenger of Justice and Forgiveness

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Falling on our Faces: the Feast of the Transfiguration

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Seventh Sunday of Matthew: “Written for our Instruction”

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The Pigs and the Perishing: Fifth Sunday after Pentecost and Fifth Sunday of Matthew

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Telling the Truth, Then and Now: The Nativity of John the Baptist

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The Righteous Prophet Job

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St. George: Linking Legend with Historical Lessons

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Lazarus Saturday: The Overwhelming Question

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The Annunciation: When Hello is not simply Hello!

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St. Patrick, Natural Icons and the Sacramental Creation

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“I Have Reminded You, My Soul!”: The Canon of St. Andrew of Crete and the Sunday of Orth

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St. Valentine, Marriage, and the Orthodox Faith

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Humility that is Heard in Heaven: The Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee

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The Sub-Apostle Holy St. Timothy

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The New and the Circumcized: An “Afterward” on The Circumcision of Christ and New Year&#

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Not Strictly Necessary: The Three Youths and Righteous Joseph (Vespers and Sunday before Christmas)

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Untold Freedom: Tenth Sunday of Luke, Feasts of Sts. Barbara and John of Damascus

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Only Surface Deep: Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost & Ninth Sunday of Luke

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Things Hidden and Things Revealed: Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost & Seventh Sunday of Luke

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The God Who Makes Himself Known: James the Brother of God, Sixth Sunday of Luke

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Weapons of Righteousness: Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost & Third Sunday of Luke

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Forgiveness and the Authority of God's Children: Sixth Sunday of Matthew

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Fear, Enemies and Fishermen: First Sunday of Luke/ Fourteen Sunday after Pentecost

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On Blessing, Honor and Humility: The Nativity of the Theotokos

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Fathers, Fools, Faith and Fragility: Tenth Sunday After Pentecost

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Eighth Sunday of Matthew:  Loaves, Fish and Family

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The Feast of St. Mary Magdalene

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Holy Fathers of the 4th Ecumenical Council: The Apostolic, Conciliar and Concrete Church

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Discipleship and Doom: Second Sunday after Pentecost

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Holy Pentecost:  Water, Light and Living Words

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At Odds With the Power-That-Be!  The Sunday of the Blind Man

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Sunday of the Paralytic

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Seeing is Believing!: Sunday of St. Thomas

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Rahab? One of these names is NOT like the others!

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Palm Sunday: Being A Donkey!

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Without Precedent: Second Sunday of Lent

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Forgiveness and Fasting:  Cheesefare Sunday and Forgiveness Vespers

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“Hastening to that Fatherly Refuge:” The Sunday of the Prodigal Son

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Going to the Dogs!  The Fifteenth Sunday of Matthew

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Sunday of Zacchaeus: Sons of Abraham, the Son of Man, and a Wee Little Man

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On Lepers, Foreigners, and Israel (Twelfth Sunday of Luke and St. Anthony)

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On Dragons, Water, Light, and the Holy Spirit (Theophany and Its Forefeast)

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By Hook or by Crook: On Shepherds, St. Nicholas and the Great Shepherd of the Sheep

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Remember that you were a slave!” On Riches and Status

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“Angels, Help us to Adore Him!” Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost

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Save us, O Son of God: Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost & Sixth Sunday of Luke

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Sunday of Holy Fathers of Seventh Ecumenical Council: Things Sure and Shallow

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Intimations of Holiness

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“With my Own Hand”—God's World, our Life in the Spirit, and the New Creation

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A Cautionary Tale: The Beheading of St. John the Forerunner

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The Dormition and Translation of the Theotokos

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God's Signs: Building on the Foundation, Walking the Sea

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Holy Fathers of the 4th Ecumenical Council: The Apostolic, Conciliar and Concrete Church

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Fifth Sunday after Pentecost:  “Beloved for the sake of their forefathers”

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Light, Peace, and Wrath: One of These Things is Not Like the Others?

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The Sunday of All Saints: Memory Eternal

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The Ascension: Christ's Victory, Our Hope

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The Samaritan Woman

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The Myrrh-Bearing Women

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Great and Holy Pascha - Deliverance Belongs To The Lord

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The Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt - A Cautionary Tale and Ambition

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The Sunday of the Adoration of the Cross - Learning Obedience

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The Sunday of Orthodoxy - On Icons and Ladders

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The Last Judgement

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The Presentation Of Our Lord

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The Premise of Lamp for Today