The Homiliary of Metropolitan Varlaam: Sunday Gospel Homilies - Couverture souple

Varlaam, Metropolitan

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798172567803

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Bring the Sunday Gospel into the life you live.

How do we pray without pride, forgive an enemy, bear suffering, or answer the needs of the poor? In The Homiliary of Metropolitan Varlaam: Sunday Gospel Homilies, the Gospel becomes a searching invitation to repentance, mercy, and renewed faith. These sermons speak to the choices made at home, at work, and in the presence of a neighbor who needs our help.

First printed in Moldavia in 1643, Varlaam's Cazania brought Christian teaching to Romanian-speaking hearers in their own language. This new English translation presents all 54 homilies of its Sunday and movable-feast cycle, opening a path into the preaching and spiritual life of the Eastern Orthodox tradition.

Walk through the Church year with the Gospel.

The collection begins with the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee and continues through Great Lent, Holy Week, Pascha, Pentecost, and the Sundays that follow, ending with the Thirty-Second Sunday after Pentecost. Lazarus Saturday, Holy Thursday, Holy Saturday, and the Ascension also have their place in this unfolding account of Christ's saving work.

Varlaam explains the Gospel, draws out its meaning, and turns toward the conscience of the listener. The field, the marketplace, the household, and the service of an earthly king become images through which he teaches about the soul's relation to God. His language moves from encouragement to warning, from the needs of daily life to the hope of the Resurrection.

Within these pages, you will encounter:

• Repentance and humility: teaching that asks us to examine our own hearts before judging the faults of others.
• Prayer and perseverance: exhortations to seek God's help through temptation, uncertainty, and suffering.
• Mercy and forgiveness: practical appeals to care for the poor, release resentment, and recognize our responsibility to one another.
• The Passion and Resurrection: reflections that place Christian hope in the saving work of Jesus Christ.
• Faith expressed in action: reminders that what we believe should shape how we use our possessions, speak to our neighbors, and care for those entrusted to us.

A companion for attentive spiritual reading.

Read one homily at a time alongside its Gospel passage, return to the sermons during the corresponding seasons, or follow the whole cycle as a sustained encounter with Orthodox Christian preaching. The collection offers material for personal reflection and for clergy, students, and readers interested in the history of sermons and Romanian Christianity.

Varlaam was a monk and former abbot of Secu before becoming Metropolitan of Moldavia in 1632. His work joined pastoral care with schools and printing. These homilies preserve the voice of a seventeenth-century churchman: tender toward human weakness, forceful about the demands of faith, and marked by the religious disputes of his time.

The questions running through these sermons remain close at hand. What does my neighbor need? What must I forgive? Where have I mistaken outward observance for a changed heart? Varlaam repeatedly brings the reader back to the connection between hearing Christ's words and putting them into practice.

For readers seeking a slower rhythm of Christian reading, these homilies offer a weekly point of return: a Gospel to attend to, a teaching to weigh, and a call to carry prayer beyond the page into the ordinary duties of life.

Make room for the Gospel to be heard, considered, and lived.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798172567803
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 252
• Éditeur: Books Rare Orthodox
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