Sermon of Metropolitan Philaret on the Sunday of Orthodoxy 14/27 February, 1972 In the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. During the services last night we spoke of the difficulties with which the Orthodox Church met in ancient times when She was the object of...
An Encyclical by Saint Philaret the Confessor of New York Our Lord Jesus Christ, instructing His disciples and apostles, imbued in them the necessity of observing purity of heart and thought. From the thought, and from the heart proceed our sinful impulses: But those...
[From the article in “Orthodox Word” 1970] A FINAL APPEAL OF METROPOLITAN PHILARET To the Sobor of Bishops, Clergy and Laymen of the American Metropolia, meeting at St. Tikhon’s Monastery, South Canaan, Pennsylvania, October 19-22, 1970 A year ago the news...
Saint Metropolitan Philaret’s Epistle for Pascha 1974 [Excerpt] …This truly ineffable, grand and brilliant joy, incomparable with any other on earth, is sent to us as a gift of grace and the mercy of God on the great feast of Christ’s resurrection. In the bright...
