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Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh

Healing of two possessed in Gergesene
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Healing of two possessed in Gergesene

Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Surozh

Isn’t that what happens so often to us? We feel that we are in danger, we are in need, we turn to God, we claim His attention, we want things to be the way we choose—and there is silence; God seems to be asleep; and we suspect that He does not care, that He is like Christ, sleeping peacefully with His head on a cushion, while we, His creatures, cry, wail in our agony…

“Do you believe that he will rise again?” Homily on Lazarus Saturday
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“Do you believe that he will rise again?” Homily on Lazarus Saturday

Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Surozh

The Lord is stronger than death, the Lord has overcome it; not only in the obvious sense in which it is manifested in the bodily raising of Lazarus, but in another sense that concerns us from day to day even more directly.

We are the Prodigal Son, We are the Older Brother
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We are the Prodigal Son, We are the Older Brother

A Homily on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Surozh

And then the time comes for us to deeply and closely reflect upon ourselves, and understand that we have sinned against Heaven, sinned against our father, against our brother, against our loved ones, against our sister—against everyone around us. We have sinned—meaning we severed the tie, desiring to be free of them… And then the time comes to return: back home, there to where they fed us, gave generously to us, cared for us, and in the end, to God, the Font of all blessings.

St. Anthony the Great and God’s Help in the Struggle with Evil
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St. Anthony the Great and God’s Help in the Struggle with Evil

Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Surozh

I would like to direct your attention to only one event in his life.

Sermon at the Vigil for Theophany
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Sermon at the Vigil for Theophany

January 18, 1998

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

The day of the Theophany is the day when the whole world is being renewed and becomes a partaker of the sanctity of God. But at the same time, it is the day when Christ enters on the way to Calvary.

The Incarnation
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The Incarnation

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

Probably none of you has experience of being in the street; I had it when I was a child and a youth, and it’s a very unpleasant feeling to know that you have nowhere to go and that you are totally unwanted in any of the places that shine with light, which obviously speak of warmth to you.

Sunday of St. John of the Ladder
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Sunday of St. John of the Ladder

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

Lent is a time of renewal when like spring, everything become new again; when our life that had gone into a twilight becomes alive with all the intensity that God can communicate to us, humans, by making us partakers of His Holy Spirit, by making us partakers, through the Holy Sacraments and the direct gift of God, of the Divine nature.

Forgiveness Sunday Vespers
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Forgiveness Sunday Vespers

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

To forgive does not mean to forget what has happened between us, but to shoulder the weight of another person's frailty, or at times of another person's evil.

Sunday of the Last Judgment
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Sunday of the Last Judgment

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

Today, on our preparation journey towards Lent, we have come to the ultimate stage: we are confronted with judgment. If we pay attention to it, next week our spiritual destiny will be in our own hands, because next week is the Sunday of Forgiveness.

How do we treat the gifts of God? The Sunday of the Prodigal Son
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How do we treat the gifts of God? The Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

Now, we turn away, carrying with us the gifts of God; and we live in a country that is also alien; we live in a world that is man-made, but not God-made, or rather made by God and distorted by man. What kind of hunger comes to us?

The Gratitude of the Publican
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The Gratitude of the Publican

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

But then, the question is before us: how can we learn anything about humility if that is the absolute condition to be not like the barren fig tree, but fruitful, to be a rich harvest which people may be fed.

On Names and Angels. The Day of Archangel Michael
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On Names and Angels. The Day of Archangel Michael

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

“There is no one like God”—in this is expressed all of the great Archangel’s knowledge of his God. He doesn’t describe Him, nor does he explain—he stands and witnesses.

Sunday before Pentecost
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Sunday before Pentecost

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

We also are called to learn the joy, the exhilarating, the wonderful joy of giving, of turning away from ourselves to be free to give, and of giving on all levels, the smallest things and the greatest things.

Healing of the Ten Lepers
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Healing of the Ten Lepers

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

The Gospel, all the Gospel is a gift of God to us, and although we are not continuously reminded of the need to be grateful, how can we not respond with gratitude to what the Gospel brings to us? God has so loved the world that He has given His only begotten Son that the world may be saved; and the Son has given Himself freely, in the sovereign freedom of His Divinity to us; no-one has taken His life from Him—these are His own words; He gave His life willingly, freely, that we may live.

The Exaltation of the Cross
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The Exaltation of the Cross

September 14/27

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

There is a passage in the Gospel in which the Lord says to us, Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends (Jn. 15:13). These words resolve the antinomy between the horror of the Cross and the glory of it, between death and the Resurrection.

On the Leave-taking of the Dormition
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On the Leave-taking of the Dormition

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

We don't murder, we don’t stone, but we turn a deaf ear to Christ speaking in the Gospel, to the testimony of Saints. Or we accept them with joy for one moment, but then, we do not carry it out long enough, with enough determination. And when we hear Christ speak, we don't murder Him as the Jews did in the days of His flesh. Rather, we turn away, and we go our own way.

The Dormition is a Triumph of Life
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The Dormition is a Triumph of Life

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

How can we celebrate the Dormition? As a day of death? Only if we remember two things: First, that for us who remain on earth, death is the bitter, painful separation from our loved ones. But for the one who dies, death, dormition (falling asleep) is a triumphant, magnificent meeting of a living soul with the living God.

“Our Salvation is in our Will.” St. Seraphim of Sarov
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“Our Salvation is in our Will.” St. Seraphim of Sarov

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

When he was asked one day, in what does a perishing sinner differ from a righteous man who is saving his soul, a saint, St. Seraphim answered: Only in his resolve…

The Man Born Blind
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The Man Born Blind

John 9:1-35

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

Like the man born blind we live most of our lives on alms, we sit like beggars at the roadside holding out a hand in the hope that someone will notice, if not us at least our hand, and give us something to sustain us for the next few hours at any rate.

The Lord’s Entry Into Jerusalem
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The Lord’s Entry Into Jerusalem

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

Nothing embitters a person so much as a lost, a disappointed hope; and that explains why people who could receive Him like that, who witnessed the raising of Lazarus, who saw Christ’s miracles and heard His teaching, admired every word, who were ready to become His disciples as long as He brought victory, broke away from Him, turned their backs on Him and a few days later shouted, “Crucify Him, crucify Him.”

Angels
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Angels

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

The word ‘angel’ comes from the Greek ‘angelos’, which means ‘a messenger’. As far as we are concerned, in the way in which we are related to the angels, they enter into our life as messengers of God. This does not mean that there is not in the angels an essence of their own, their own essential being, and that they are nothing but messengers.

Commentary on the Gospel about the healing of the gadarene demoniac
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Commentary on the Gospel about the healing of the gadarene demoniac

Newly-discovered texts

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

After the death of Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh, cassettes were found among his things, with talks on selected parts of the Gospel of St. Mark. We present to your attention one such talk, dedicated to the healing of the Gadarene demoniac.

"Goodness is Tested by its Encounter with Evil"
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"Goodness is Tested by its Encounter with Evil"

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

I am convinced that God concerns Himself with the fate of mankind. Second, I think that if there is freedom in man that was given by God, God no longer has the right to stand in the way of this freedom and destroy it. Otherwise it would look like this: God makes you free, but the moment you use that freedom in a way that He doesn’t like He flattens you and you are no more.

Met. Anthony of Surouzh. Doubt and the Christian Life
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Met. Anthony of Surouzh. Doubt and the Christian Life

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

Ten years ago today, the outstanding missionary, Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Surouzh, reposed in the Lord. Metropolitan Anthony was a prolific writer and preacher, and left volume of inspiration for the Christian life. In honor of his repose day, we present one of his many powerful homilies.

Sunday of the Paralytic
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Sunday of the Paralytic

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

How tragic today's story of the life of Christ is. A man had been paralysed for years. He had lain at a short distance from healing, but he himself had no strength to merge into the waters of ablution. And no one - no one in the course of all these years - had had compassion on him.

Passion Week: Holy and Great Monday
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Passion Week: Holy and Great Monday

Archpriest Victor Potapov, Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

We are entering into difficult days today: days when we recall the Passion of Christ; days when it will be difficult for us to come to church and endure long services, to pray. Many ask themselves: is there any point in coming to services when we are so physically tired, when our thoughts are flying here and there, when we have no inner concentration and true participation in what is going on? Remember what happened during the days of Christ’s Passion: how many people there were—both good and terrible people, who would have given anything to break away from the horror and exhaustion of those days.

Saint Mary of Egypt
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Saint Mary of Egypt

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

And she was so profoundly shaken by this experience that she left all that had been her life, retired into the desert, and with a life which the service books define as ‘extreme’, fought to conquer her flesh, her soul, her memories - everything that was sin, but also everything that could lead her away from God. And we know how glorious her life was, the kind of person she became.

Holy Great Martyr Catherine
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Holy Great Martyr Catherine

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

And to her also occurred what we read today in the Gospel passage appointed for her commemoration day; about what will happen when the end of time approaches: There will be wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes, people will rise up against people, nations against nations; hatred will possess thousands of people…

The Entry of our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary into the Temple
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The Entry of our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary into the Temple

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

Since early days the Church has given to the Mother of God titles of holiness greater than those which are given to any saint. She is called the All-holy, Panagia. We venerate Her as One who is greater and holier than the Cherubim and the Seraphim, greater than the angels of God who, endowed with vision, can see, contemplate and adore, greater than the angels of God who are, as it were, the throne of the Most High.

Spirituality and the Role of a Spiritual Father
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Spirituality and the Role of a Spiritual Father

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

If we think about the Latin roots of the word humility, we see that it comes from the word humus, which indicates fruitful earth. St. Theophan writes about this. Just think about what earth is. It lies there in silence, open, defenseless, vulnerable before the face of the sky. From the sky it receives scorching heat, the sun’s rays, rain, and dew. It also receives what we call fertilizer, that is, manure—everything that we throw into it. And what happens? It brings forth fruit. And the more it bears what we emotionally call humiliation and insult, the more fruit it yields.

Sunday of the Paralytic
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Sunday of the Paralytic

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

How tragic today's story of the life of Christ is. A man had been paralysed for years. He had lain at a short distance from healing, but he himself had no strength to merge into the waters of ablution. And no one - no one in the course of all these years - had had compassion on him.

ANGELS
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ANGELS

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

The word ‘angel’ comes from the Greek ‘angelos’, which means ‘a messenger’. As far as we are concerned, in the way in which we are related to the angels, they enter into our life as messengers of God. This does not mean that there is not in the angels an essence of their own, their own essential being, and that they are nothing but messengers. They are related as messengers to us; they are related to God as his own creatures which have already attained a measure of perfection and which grow eternally, endlessly into a deeper and more perfect communion with their Maker.

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