St. Philaret of New York: Hardcopies

Hardcopies

Hard-copies of St. Philaret's sermons/writings [in English] published in

Living Orthodoxy Magazine

http://www.sjkp.com/

#178 July-Aug 2010 Vol. XXX No. 4

Sunday of Orthodoxy 1972 [not the same sermon as the one on this blog titled, "Triumph of Orthodoxy"]

#180 Nov-Dec 2010 Vol. XXX No. 6

Day of Nativity

Sunday of the Forefathers [not the same sermon as the one on this blog titled "Sunday of the Fathers"]

#181 Jan-Feb 2011 Vol. XXXI No. 1

Feast of the Meeting of the Lord

A Word on St. John the Baptist

#182 Mar-April 2011 Vol. XXXI No. 2

The Annunciation

On Humility

#184 July-Aug 2011 Vol. XXXI No. 4

Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus

Sample issue temporarily available: http://www.sjkp.org/downloads/LO.pdf

#186 Nov-Dec 2011 Vol. XXXI No. 6

Our Lady, Joy of All Who Sorrow

St. John of Kronstadt

Instructions for an Orthodox Christian [also on this blog]

#187 Jan-Feb 2012 Vol. XXXII, No. 1

Letter to a Priest of the Church Abroad Concerning Fr. Dimitry Dudko and the Moscow Patriarchate [also on this blog, but the hardcopy includes the valuable footnotes]

#188 Mar-April 2012 Vol. XXXII, No. 2

On the Importance of Observing Lent [also on this blog]

The Holy Life-Giving Cross of the Lord [also on this blog]

The Truth is Dearest of All

#193 Jan-Feb 2013 Vol. XXXIII no.1

On Theophany

More hardcopies available from SJKP:

Go to http://www.sjkp.com and type philaret in the search box.

Orthodox Family

Metropolitan Philaret of New York

The family lies at the heart of the life of the Church, and has always been one of her greatest concerns... even in the lives and thoughts of those who have forsworn the "natural" family for the monastic.

Item# 2278. (DC: L) Leaflet. $0.35

Emotional Development of Children & On Christian Hope

Metropolitan Philaret of New York City

In his simple style, Metropolitan Philaret touches upon the critical aspects of the development of children... assuredly, the nurturing of whom is one of the most vital of the Church's tasks.

Item# 2280. (DC: L) Leaflet. $0.35

Guidelines for Orthodox Christians

Metropolitan Philaret of NYC

The life of the Gospel is at once complex beyond human understanding... and so simple that only a child can understand it. In only a very few words, Vladyka Philaret calls us to that life... "as easy as 1, 2 3..."

Item# 2283. (DC: L) Leaflet. $0.35

Metropolitan Philaret: A True Holy Confessor of these Latter Times

Both for those who knew him and those who did not, these few lines (graced by a moving personal account by one of his last companions, and the words he left behind in his typewriter) provide a reminder of what it means truly to be a "confessor" in these days.

Item# 2285. (DC: L) Leaflet. $0.35

Will the Heterodox be Saved?

Metropolitan Philaret of New York

The title says it all -- in a pluralistic society such as ours, where most of us have close relatives and loved ones who are very far from the true Orthodox Faith, this is a burning question. The critical distinction is clearly drawn between those who knowingly pervert the truth (into which class we ourselves should surely fall, were we to abandon the true Faith), and those who sincerely struggle outside the Church, never having known her fullness.

Item# 2290. (DC: L) Leaflet. $0.35

Christian Love: The Basic Principle of Morality

Met. Philaret

Any other kind of "morality" is, inevitably, simply self-interest masked in one way or another... even if it is genuinely "enlightened" self-interest. The wise simplicity of Metropolitan Philaret speaks to the Christian heart.

Item# 2297. (DC: L) Leaflet. $0.35

The Nature of Sin

Metropolitan Philaret of New York City

A brief exploration of the distinguishing feature of fallen mankind.

Item# 2300. (DC: L) Leaflet. $0.35

Philaret

trans. Isaac Lambertsen

Menaion for 12.01.

Item# 1115. (DC: S) . $1.90

On the Law of God

Met. Philaret of New York

From the pen of a man of great spiritual insight and depth of human understanding, a broad-ranging exploration of the dimensions of Orthodox Christian life. Topically focused chapters range from "Freedom of Will" and "The Christian 'I'" to "Christian Death", concluding with several chapters on prayer. Originally published decades ago, this new edition includes a brief biographical notice and features modern and easily read typesetting.

Item# 3090. (DC: R) Saddle-stitched. $5.50

Also see these:

http://www.serfes.org/books.htm

Video Of The Holy Canonization Of St. Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg

Price:US$25.00.

This video includes His Eminence, Vladika Metropolitan Philaret the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, and which the Holy Canonization of St. Blessed Xenia took place at the Kursk Mother of God Russian Orthodox Cathedral in New York.

Selective Writings Of His Eminence, Metropolitan Philaret (Large Format)

Compiled by Father Demetrios Serfes.

Volume I - Price:US$10.00

Volume II - Price:US$15.00

Volume III - Price:US$20.00

Audio

"And here is something to which I would like to draw your attention to – something about which very many do not think about. Father Archimandrite Constantine, whom probably many of you know, the reposed editor of the journal “Orthodox Rus’”, a profound Christian mind, considered that the most terrible among all the achievements of the communists was that the communists created their own false-church, a soviet church which they shoved onto the unfortunate people in place of the genuine Church which went underground into the catacombs. Do not think that I am exaggerating or that Father Constantine was exaggerating!

Once, in the year 1918, a Pan-Russian Church Council was held. At this Council, the entire Pan-Russian Church together with its first holy hierarch, Patriarch Tikhon ANATHEMATIZED, excommunicated from the Church not only the theomachists and godless ones themselves, but also ALL THOSE WHO WOULD COLLABORATE WITH THEM."

~St. Philaret of NY

St. Philaret speaking (in Russian) against MP

audio 1½ minutes

https://app.box.com/s/ki1x0vx8obex3kszzor13idqj5d40yj2

Prayer to St. Philaret

O our Saintly father Philaret, God chosen confessor of recent times, true Orthodox hierarch, guide, upholder and dependable intercessor before God for all true Orthodox faithful, standing and praying for them before God’s altar: implore our ever benevolent God to forgive us our sins and wash them away through our repentance. Through your prayers, save us from calumny of the godless and endow us with a fear of God, so that we may remain faithful children of Christ’s True Church to the end. Strengthen us in the confession of our Faith, so that we will not be frightened of persecution or suffering, and should we suffer for our Orthodox Faith, grant us strength not to reject Christ and not to accept the mark of the accursed antichrist.

In not hiding your labours and enduring extreme conditions for the sake of True Orthodoxy, we extol and propagate your good works:

Glorifying the Royal Martyrs and the new Russian Confessors of Orthodoxy; for giving all true Orthodox Christians a true Apostolic succession; for anathematizing ecumenism that is the heresy of all heresies, and maintaining the rightness of authority through the unwavering truth of Christ’s words.

We lay before you our prayer for your help, blessing and intercession, and at all times beseech your prayers for us.

Do not cease to utter prayers to the Lover of Man God for the small flock of true Orthodox Christians, and may He grant peace to his Church, and may He deliver Her from heresies and schisms. May He also deliver us from the darkness of sin and lusts, from the clandestine snares of the sly antichrist, and may we remain steadfast unto death in confessing our holy Orthodoxy, so that in the end we may without condemnation receive Communion of the Lord’s Holy Flesh and Blood from true clergy. And at the close of our lives, may we secure mercy and clemency from the Lord, Who created us and gave us life and made us what we are, and to Whom is due every glory, praise, honour and adoration, with the eternal Father and Holy Spirit, now and ever, and to the ages of ages.

Amen

PRAYER

O Hierarch of Christ Philaret, with contrition of heart we glorify thee and entreat thee. Having boldness before the Holy Trinity, One in essence and undivided, intercede that the Russian Church not be divided: that the Lord keep it from being cut asunder, as St. Mark of Ephesus plead; may He save it from ruptures in its body, as prayed the Hierarch Philaret of Moscow; and may He preserve also the lot of thine episcopate, the Russian diaspora, scattered among the nations, instructing them in the Orthodox Faith, bearing unfeigned witness to the truth, confessing the faith of the holy fathers, preserving the language of Saints Methodius and Cyril in the order of the divine services, and celebrating the feasts of the Church of Christ as of old.

Through thy prayers, may the Lord grant the wisdom of serpents and the purity of doves to His hierarchs, apostolic love and prophetic zeal, the patience and sympathy and total forgiveness of Christ. That He confirm the pastors in care for their spiritual children, teaching them to flee the attractions of this fallen world, that He enrich their knowledge with the glad tidings of the Gospel, keep their hands impartial to filthy lucre, direct their feet to preaching the Gospel of peace, preserve their hearts in purity. That He grant monastics the spirit of obedience, chastity, self-restraint, observing the monastic rules, confirmed in nonpossessiveness. And to the people of God, the infants, young boys and girls, men and women and the aged may He grant health of soul and body, the spirit of faith, the spirit of love, the spirit of loyalty to their Orthodox faith. And for all of us to acquire blessedness and inherit the heavenly Kingdom. Amen

QUOTE

... But the Most Blessed Metropolitan Philaret said:

You have probably heard many times how there are many most sublime, beautiful and seemingly Christian words being said about everyone joining together into one faith, one religion. But remember, what lies behind this is precisely indifference towards truth. If a person valued truth, he would never agree to this. It is precisely because everyone is little interested in truth and wishes only to make things simpler and more convenient even in matters of the faith, this is why they say that everyone must unite", i.e. each person must admit that his faith is not the truth, and only when all these truth-less faiths combine into one, then somehow truth will emerge. Brethren, let us fear such indifference toward the truth. Our Lord Jesus Christ clearly indicates to us in Revelations how terrifying indifference toward the truth is. He speaks to the Angel of the Church of Laodiceans:

"I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot ( lukewarm - you do not treasure the truth) I will spue thee out of My mouth." This is expressed more severely and strongly in the Slavonic text: "I will vomit you out of My mouth", just as an organism expels something truly repulsive and harmful to it.

Metropolitan Philaret NY (1986)

source:

http://metanthonymemorial.org/VernostNo83.html

QUOTE

A man who does not express a desire to link himself to the latest of the saints (in time) in all love and humility owing to a certain distrust in himself, will never be linked to the preceding saints and will not be admitted to their succession, even though he thinks he possesses all possible faith and love for God and for all His saints. He will be cast out of their midst, as one who refused to take humbly the place allotted to him by God before all time, and to link himself to that latest saint (in time) as God had disposed.

St. Symeon the New Theologian