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The rubrics for the Divine Liturgy state that after the reading of the Holy Gospel
the priest is to provide an explanation of the Sacred Scriptures, with pastoral guidance
for their application to the lives of the faithful. Sermons delivered by Orthodox clergy
are always grounded in, and based on, the patristic tradition of the Orthodox Church.
The following provide excellent English-language resources for preparing sermons
according to this Sacred tradition:
1. New Advent
This is a Roman Catholic-maintained web site. The section on the Church Fathers,
contains good-quality and faithful English translations of most of the letters, speeches
and books from the earliest Christian centuries. The extensive section on Saint John
Chrysostom will be most-useful to clergy preparing their homiles on the Scripture readings
2. The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers
This is the web page maintained by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. It parallels
much of the material on the New Advent site; its most-critical deficiency is the lack of
materials written by Saint John Chrysostom.
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