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Metropolitan Gregory's Sermons

Metropolitan Gregory's Sermons

By Metropolitan Gregory

Orthodox Christian Sermons on the Sunday Gospel Readings and the Great Feasts for the entire Liturgical Year of the Orthodox Church
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Q&A with Metropolitan Gregory of Boston

Metropolitan Gregory's SermonsMay 14, 2017

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Nativity of our Lord, and God and Saviour Jesus Christ

Nativity of our Lord, and God and Saviour Jesus Christ

Saint Mark of Ephesus Orthodox Cathedral, Boston, December 25/January 7, 2019
Jan 10, 202011:30
Sunday before the Nativity of our Saviour

Sunday before the Nativity of our Saviour

~In what consists the importance of the Genoelogy of Christ according to the flesh that is read in today's Gospel? Also, on the importance of the story of Three Children in the Furnace of Babylon~

Holy Transfiguation Monastery, Boston, December 23/January 5, 2019
Jan 05, 202020:26
Sunday of the 318 Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenic

Sunday of the 318 Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenic

~That God does not requite children for the sins of their fathers, but He does bless them for the sake of the prayers of their fathers. Also, on Saint John the Russian~

Saint John the Russian Orthodox Church, Ipswich, Massachusetts, May 27/June 9, 2019

Jul 15, 201914:55
Sunday of the Blind Man

Sunday of the Blind Man

~As to why this miracle was one of the greatest wrought by our Saviour, and that He desires to open our blinded spiritual eyes as well~

Saint Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral, Toronto, May 20/June 2, 2019

Jun 03, 201919:44
Sunday of the Samaritan Woman

Sunday of the Samaritan Woman

~That in order to drink of the Living Waters of Grace flowing from our Saviour, we should first be thirsting for Him; and if we find to have no thirst for God in our lives, then we have been deceived by self-righteousness~

Saint Mark of Ephesus Orthodox Cathedral, Boston, May 13/26, 2019

Jun 03, 201918:31
Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday

~That the Orthodox Faith is not an ethnic or political ideology, and if we do not have this clear in our minds, we run the risk of falling into the trap of the antichrist~

Saint Mark of Ephesus Orthodox Cathedral of Boston, April 8/21, 2019
Jun 03, 201925:47
Fifth Sunday of the Lent, Synaxis of Saint Mary of Egypt

Fifth Sunday of the Lent, Synaxis of Saint Mary of Egypt

~On one fundamental reason which makes the true God of the Christians so different from the false gods of other religions; also, about the repentance of Saint Mary of Egypt~

Saint Mark of Ephesus Orthodox Cathedral of Boston, April 1/14, 2019

Jun 03, 201919:35
Annunciation of the Theotokos

Annunciation of the Theotokos

~On how the dogma of the virginal conception of our Saviour from the Theotokos is fundamental for our salvation~ Saint Tatiana Orthodox Church, New York, March 25/April 7, 2019
Apr 07, 201933:47
Sunday of the Worship of the Cross

Sunday of the Worship of the Cross

~On how Christ's suffering and death on the Cross are salvific for us and on how we can participate in them~

Saint Haralampus Orthodox Church, Orlando, Florida, March 18/31, 2019

Apr 03, 201914:35
Second Sunday of the Lent

Second Sunday of the Lent

~That God is even ready to forgive the sins of one person for the sake of the faith another person; also, concerning the reason why the Church appointed the Second Sunday of the Lent as the Feast Day of Saint Gregory Palamas~

Pillars of Orthodoxy Church, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, March 11/24, 2019

Apr 03, 201922:25
Vespers of the Sunday of Orthodoxy

Vespers of the Sunday of Orthodoxy

~That we should cherish the godly freedom that we have been blessed to have in our Church~

Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Boston, March 4/17, 2019

Apr 03, 201915:03
Sunday of Orthodoxy

Sunday of Orthodoxy

~Concerning the words of our Saviour spoken about Nathanael "Behold an Israelite indeed with whom there is no guile"~

Saint Mark of Ephesus Orthodox Cathedral, Boston, March 4/17, 2019

Apr 03, 201917:17
First Service of the Akathist Hymn

First Service of the Akathist Hymn

~On the words of our Saviour "I am the vine, ye are the branches", that the only means of cultivating a living relationship with Christ, is through the Mother of God~

Holy Nativity Convent, Boston, March 2/15, 2019

Apr 03, 201910:58
Sunday of Forgiveness

Sunday of Forgiveness

~That by fasting, we plant the paradise in our hearts, which our forefathers lost for having disregarded the commandment to fast~

Saint Mark of Ephesus Orthodox Cathedral, Boston, March 10/25, 2019

Apr 03, 201917:24
Sunday of the Last Judgement

Sunday of the Last Judgement

~That the proof of our love for God lies in our love for our neighbour~

Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Boston, March 3/18, 2019

Apr 03, 201913:41
Sunday of Publican and Pharisee

Sunday of Publican and Pharisee

~That when we consider ourselves to be righteous, that is when we fall in its opposite, the self-righteousness~

Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Boston, February 3/17, 2019

Apr 03, 201913:36
Feast of the Presentation of our Saviour into the Temple

Feast of the Presentation of our Saviour into the Temple

~Concerning Saint Symeon the God-receiver and Anna the Prophetess, that in person of Saint Symeon, the whole Old Testament was asking our Saviour to be released in peace; also, that after the Theotokos and the Baptist, Saint Symeon stands closest to the Throne of God~


Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Boston, February 2/15, 2019
Feb 15, 201920:19
Twelfth Sunday of Saint Luke\u000A\u000A

Twelfth Sunday of Saint Luke\u000A\u000A

~On the healing of ten lepers, that the sureest sign of spiritual darkening is the lack of gratitude to God~

Saint John of San Francisco Orthodox Church, Frankfort, Illinois

January 21/February 3, 2019

Feb 04, 201918:18
Eulogy of our beloved Father and Hierarch Ephraim, Metropolitan of Boston, 1939-2019

Eulogy of our beloved Father and Hierarch Ephraim, Metropolitan of Boston, 1939-2019

Delivered at his funeral by Metropolitan Gregory of Boston
Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Boston, January 13/26, 2019

Jan 29, 201917:34
Feast of Theophany

Feast of Theophany

~That our Saviour was not baptized because He needed baptism; rather, the Mystery of Baptism needed our Saviour~

Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Theophany 2019

Jan 29, 201919:13
Sunday After Nativity of Christ

Sunday After Nativity of Christ

~On the power of Repentance and on the true meaning of the Fear of God~

Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Boston, December 31/January 13, 2018

Jan 29, 201917:14
Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos

Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos

~On why it was necessary for our Salvation that God should be born as a man from a virgin~

Holy Nativity Convent, Boston, December 26/January 8, 2018

Jan 29, 201915:40
Nativity in the Flesh of our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ

Nativity in the Flesh of our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ

~What is the gift that our Saviour desires the most that we should bring Him for His Nativity?~

Saint Mark of Ephesus Orthodox Cathedral of Boston, Nativity 2018

Jan 29, 201908:39
Sunday before the Nativity of Christ

Sunday before the Nativity of Christ

~On the Forfathers of Christ according to the flesh; also, on what Saint Isaac the Syrian tells us that we should learn from them~

Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Boston, December 24/January 6, 2018

Jan 29, 201920:37
Eleventh Sunday of Saint Luke

Eleventh Sunday of Saint Luke

~On the Banquet of the Master, that even harmless things done at the expense of our relationship with God will lead us away from His Kingdom; also, concerning the Three Children in Babylon, that when we are faithful to God in small things, He will be faithful to us in times of great trials~

Saint Mark of Ephesus Orthodox Cathedral of Boston, December 17/30, 2018

Jan 29, 201925:14
Feast of Saint Spyridon of Trimythus

Feast of Saint Spyridon of Trimythus

~Also, concerning Saint Herman of Alaska and about what the Orthodox missionary work consists of~

Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Boston, December 12/25, 2018

Jan 29, 201925:37
Tenth Sunday of Saint Luke

Tenth Sunday of Saint Luke

~Concerning the true manner of keeping the Sabbath day; also, about Saint Joasaph of Belgorod~

Saint Gregory the Illuminator Orthodox Chapel, Grafton, New Hampshire, December 10/23, 2018

Jan 29, 201915:09
Feast of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker

Feast of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker

~Concerning the correct use of strictness and leniency in the Church~

Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Boston, December 6/19, 2018

Jan 29, 201917:53
Fourteenth Sunday of Saint Luke

Fourteenth Sunday of Saint Luke

~Concerning the healing of the blind man of Jericho; that when we make the firm foundation of faith to our spiritual life, and persist in our supplication in hope, God will console us with His love; also, about Saint Theodoulus the Stylite and Saint Cornelius the Lute Player~

Saint Mark of Ephesus Orthodox Cathedral of Boston, December 3/16, 2018

Jan 29, 201924:37
Thirteenth Sunday of Saint Luke

Thirteenth Sunday of Saint Luke

~Concerning the question "what shall I do to inherit the eternal life"; also, that there is the right way and the wrong way of keeping God's commandments~

Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Boston, November 26/December 9, 2018

Jan 29, 201922:35
Feast of the Archangels

Feast of the Archangels

~That Archangel Michael was the first defender of the Faith against the first heretic, the devil~

Holy Transfguration Monastery, Boston, November 8/21, 2018
Nov 26, 201819:17
"PROPHET OF THE LIVING GOD"

"PROPHET OF THE LIVING GOD"

Discussion with Metropolitan Gregory on the life of Saint John of Kronstadt

(By I.K. Sursky, Holy Transfiguration Monastery, 2018)

Saint Botolph's Book Club
Saint Mark of Ephesus Orthodox Cathedral of Boston, November 5/18, 2018
Nov 26, 201801:29:44
Fifth Sunday of Saint Luke

Fifth Sunday of Saint Luke

~Concerning the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus; that neither the riches nor poverty are inherently evil or inherently good; rather, it is their good use or their misuse that either saves us or condemns us~

Saint Mark of Ephesus Orthodox Cathedral of Boston, November 5/18, 2018
Nov 18, 201817:29
Seventh Sunday of Saint Luke\u000A\u000A

Seventh Sunday of Saint Luke\u000A\u000A

~On the raising of the the daughter of Jairius and on the healing of the woman with the issue of blood~ Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Boston October 29/November 11, 2018
Nov 11, 201816:51
Segundo Domingo de San Lucas

Segundo Domingo de San Lucas

~Sobre las palabras del Señor "Sean compasivos como vuestro Padre es compasivo"~

Misión de la Protección de la Madre de Dios, Tunja, Colombia

1/14 de Octubre, 2018

Oct 14, 201823:24
First Sunday of Saint Luke

First Sunday of Saint Luke

~On the miraculous catch of the fish; that the foundation of our spiritual progress is faith in Christ's commandments, the proof thereof is obedience to them and the fruit by which we measure our progress is humility~

Saint Mark of Ephesus Orthodox Cathedral, Boston September 24/October 7, 2018
Oct 11, 201817:40
Feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God

Feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God

Holy Nativity Convent, Boston

September 8/21, 2018
Oct 10, 201817:38
 "Our struggle is not against flesh and blood" (Ephesians 6:12)

"Our struggle is not against flesh and blood" (Ephesians 6:12)

A talk given by Metropolitan Gregory of Boston to the youth of Saint Peter the Aleut Orthodox Camp, Sunapee Lake, New Hampshire

July 17/August 1, 2017
Aug 01, 201734:19
Q&A with Metropolitan Gregory of Boston

Q&A with Metropolitan Gregory of Boston

Saint Cosmas of Aitolia Orthodox Church, Lanham, Maryland
May 1/14, 2017
May 14, 201701:35:01