20 March 2025
Way of life
On Saturday, March 15, 2025, Igumen Seraphim Bell celebrated the Divine Liturgy for an English-speaking group on the Church of St. Nicholas in Novaya Sloboda in Moscow.
His homily targeted on the life and theology of St. Gregory Palamas: A Uncommon Case in TraditionAn ascetic who has been accounted worthy of passionlessness can thereafter style of the expertise of pure prayer. His thoughts “transcends all issues” in prayer and renounces all perceptions of created beings and adores the Uncreated God, and the but larger union with God is feasible. Those that have been illumined by the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, have come to know Him and ponder the Uncreated Gentle.
“>St. Gregory Palamas, who was commemorated the next day, on the second Sunday of Nice Lent. Fr. Seraphim spoke of how the Church confirmed that St. Gregory’s educating was, in truth, what the Church has all the time skilled and taught—that “our Orthodox life is union and communion with the residing God-Man, Jesus.
