Best Christian Orthodox Podcasts (2024)

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Interview | Eschatology and Icons with Jonathan Pageau 4:06

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Father Josiah Trenham and Jonathan Pageau To make a tax-deductible donation, text “PNP” to 53-555. Watch our YouTube videos at youtube.com/patristicnectarfilmsBy Father Josiah Trenham

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Reflection | 12 Purposes for Pain 26:32

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Father Josiah Trenham To make a tax-deductible donation, text “PNP” to 53-555. Watch our YouTube videos at youtube.com/patristicnectarfilmsBy Father Josiah Trenham

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Homily | Faith In A Crucible of Pain - 2nd Sunday After Pentecost St. Matt 4 27:29

4d ago27:29

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The Arena Podcast is the flagship of Patristic Nectar Publications. It contains the Sunday Sermons and other theological reflections by Father Josiah Trenham delivered from the ambon of St. Andrew Church in Riverside, California, and begun in 2010. There are more than 600 sermons and lectures covering ten years of preaching through the liturgical c…

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Reflection | The Castrati and Sex-Reassignment Surgeries 24:21

10d ago24:21

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Father Josiah Trenham To make a tax-deductible donation, text “PNP” to 53-555. Watch our YouTube videos at youtube.com/patristicnectarfilmsBy Father Josiah Trenham

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Reflection | Kneeling Before God 20:28

11d ago20:28

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Father Josiah Trenham To make a tax-deductible donation, text “PNP” to 53-555. Watch our YouTube videos at youtube.com/patristicnectarfilmsBy Father Josiah Trenham

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Holy and Wonderworking Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian, martyrs at Rome (284) 1:15

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There are three pairs of Unmercenary Physicians named Cosmas and Damian. The two commemorated today were brothers from Rome. Though they inherited great wealth, they gave most of it to the poor and needy, only setting aside enough for themselves to devote their lives to the service of Christ. As Christian physicians, they freely performed their hea…

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Synaxis of the Holy, Glorious and All-praised Twelve Apostles 1:29

13d ago1:29

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Though each of the Twelve Apostles has his own Feast day, on this day they are commemorated together. Of the Twelve, only St John the Theologian died in peace; the rest met a martyr's end. Following are their individual feast days and the manner of their end.Roman citizens could not be crucified: crucifixion was considered a shameful death unworthy…

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The Holy, Glorious and All-praised Leaders of the Apostles, Peter and Paul 1:02

14d ago1:02

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For the lives of these two great Apostles, we can only recommend a reading of the entire New Testament, which contains accounts of their lives and many of their inspired writings. St Peter, after preaching in Judea, Antioch and parts of Asia, came to Rome, where he was crucified by order of the Emperor Nero, about the year 66. Being led to the cros…

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Interview | The Enlightenment Has Run Out with Jonathan Pageau 5:27

14d ago5:27

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Father Josiah Trenham To make a tax-deductible donation, text “PNP” to 53-555. Watch our YouTube videos at youtube.com/patristicnectarfilmsBy Father Josiah Trenham

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Interview | Idols in the Mind with Father Maximos Constas 10:16

14d ago10:16

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Father Josiah Trenham To make a tax-deductible donation, text “PNP” to 53-555. Watch our YouTube videos at youtube.com/patristicnectarfilmsBy Father Josiah Trenham

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Our Holy Father Sennuphius the Standard-Bearer (4th c.) 0:58

15d ago0:58

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"A great ascetic and wonderworker of the Egyptian desert, he was a contemporary of Patriarch Theophilus and the Emperor Theodosius the Great. He is called 'the Standard-Bearer' because he once helped the Emperor Theodosius to gain a victory over enemy forces by his prayers. When the Emperor summoned him to Constantinople, he replied that he was una…

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The Orthodox Church in Africa

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Bobby Maddex conducts an in-studio interview with Fr. Kwame Labi, a Grand Protopresbyter of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa. Currently he is the Vicar General of the Holy Orthodox Archdiocese of Accra and Rector of the Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Cathedral in Accra.By Ancient Faith Radio

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St Sampson the Hospitable of Constantinople (530) 2:21

16d ago2:21

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He is counted as one of the Holy Unmercenary Physicians. "This saint was born of rich and eminent parents in ancient Rome, where he studied all the secular wisdom of that time, devoting himself in particular to the study of medicine. Sampson was a compassionate and liberal physician, and gave the sick medicine for both soul and body, counselling ea…

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Feast of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God. Feast of the Hodigritia Icon of the Mother of God 1:40

17d ago1:40

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This icon was once kept in the Church of Blachernae in Constantinople. In 1383, it suddenly appeared in the sky over Lake Ladoga, then travelled through the air to the city of Tikhvin, where it alit by the River Tikhvina. A monastery was built there to house it. In the twentieth century it was brought to America. Innumerable miracles have been work…

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Homily | Pentecostal Transformation - Holy Pentecost 2024 27:23

17d ago27:23

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The Arena Podcast is the flagship of Patristic Nectar Publications. It contains the Sunday Sermons and other theological reflections by Father Josiah Trenham delivered from the ambon of St. Andrew Church in Riverside, California, and begun in 2010. There are more than 600 sermons and lectures covering ten years of preaching through the liturgical c…

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Virgin-Martyr Febronia of Nisibis (310) 1:37

18d ago1:37

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Though the daughter of a Roman senator and a great beauty, she fled the world and entered a monastery in Mesopotamia. (So great was her beauty that the abbess had her stand behind a screen while reading to her monastic sisters.) At that time the Emperor Diocletian sent a certain Selenus, along with his nephew Lysimachus, on a mission to find and de…

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Nativity of St John the Baptist 1:39

19d ago1:39

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The wonderful story of the Forerunner's conception and birth is told in the first chapter of the Gospel according to Luke. Together with the Most Holy Theotokos and Christ Himself, both his conception and his birth are commemorated as Feasts of the Church. His name, Johanan in Hebrew, means "The Lord is Gracious." The Prologue adds: "The news of t…

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Martyr Agrippina of Rome (3rd c.) 1:33

20d ago1:33

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She lived in virginity in Rome during the reign of Valerian (253-260) — as the Prologue says, 'expelling the stench of the passions from her heart with the sweet-smelling perfume of purity and chastity.' She voluntarily presented herself to the pagans and announced herself to be a Christian, for which she was tortured to death. Her friends Vassa, P…

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St Alban, First Martyr of Great Britain (early 3rd c.) 1:01

21d ago1:01

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He was a soldier in the Roman army and, according to the venerable Bede, was brought to faith in Christ by a fugitive priest to whom he gave shelter. The saint exchanged clothes with the priest, allowing him to escape and ensuring his own martyrdom. Some writers, including St Bede, place his martyrdom during the reign of Diocletian (286-303). Sain…

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Reflection | The Vernacular Imperative 17:47

21d ago17:47

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Father Josiah Trenham To make a tax-deductible donation, text “PNP” to 53-555. Watch our YouTube videos at youtube.com/patristicnectarfilmsBy Father Josiah Trenham

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Our Holy Fathers Julius and Julian (5th c.) 0:47

22d ago0:47

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They were brothers from Greece, Christians from childhood; Julius was a priest, Julian a deacon. At the command of the Emperor Theodosius the Younger, they set out as missionaries to destroy idols and bring the people to faith in Christ throughout the Empire. During their lifetime they built a hundred churches and brought thousands to Christ. They …

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St Kallistos I, Patriarch of Constantinople (1363) 1:21

23d ago1:21

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For twenty-eight years he lived the ascetical life on Mt Athos as a disciple of St Gregory of Mt Sinai. Later, he founded the monastery of St Mamas, also on Mt Athos. In 1350 he was elected Patriarch of Constantinople. After four years, he resigned the patriarchal throne to return to the Holy Mountain, but was called back to the throne, where he re…

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Homily | Ascension 2024 25:15

23d ago25:15

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The Arena Podcast is the flagship of Patristic Nectar Publications. It contains the Sunday Sermons and other theological reflections by Father Josiah Trenham delivered from the ambon of St. Andrew Church in Riverside, California, and begun in 2010. There are more than 600 sermons and lectures covering ten years of preaching through the liturgical c…

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Reflection | The Miracles of the Jesus Prayer 15:56

24d ago15:56

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Father Josiah Trenham To make a tax-deductible donation, text “PNP” to 53-555. Watch our YouTube videos at youtube.com/patristicnectarfilmsBy Father Josiah Trenham

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Holy Apostle Jude, the Brother of the Lord (80) 0:52

24d ago0:52

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He was one of the Twelve and a kinsman of the Lord according to the flesh (see Luke 6:16, Acts 1:13; according to holy Tradition, Joseph the Carpenter, before he was widowed, had four sons by his wife Salome: James, Hosea, Simon and Jude). As an Apostle, St Jude preached in Mesopotamia, Arabia and Syria, and met a Martyr's end in Beirut. He is the …

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Reflection | Never Trust Yourself 11:56

25d ago11:56

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Father Josiah Trenham To make a tax-deductible donation, text “PNP” to 53-555. Watch our Youtube videos at youtube.com/patristicnectarfilmsBy Father Josiah Trenham

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Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas 1:57

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Saint Bartholomew was one of the Twelve Apostles, a Galilean; the Gospel accounts say little more about him. It is said that, after receiving the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, he traveled in the service of the Gospel to Arabia and Persia, and brought to India a translation of the Gospel according to Matthew. Eusebius writes that one hundred years later…

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Hieromartyr Metrophanes, first Chinese priest, and the Chinese New Martyrs of the Boxer Uprising 0:55

1M ago0:55

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"The Holy Martyrs of China were native Chinese Orthodox Christians brought up in piety at the Russian Orthodox Mission in Peking, which had been founded in 1685. During the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 against the foreign powers occupying China, native Chinese Christians were commanded by the Boxers to renounce Christianity or be tortured to death. Two …

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St Cyril, archbishop of Alexandria (444) 1:53

1M ago1:53

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"St Cyril was... from Alexandria, born about the year 376, the nephew of Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria, who also instructed the Saint in his youth. Having first spent much time with the monks of Nitria, he later became the successor to his uncle's throne in 412. In 429, when Cyril heard tidings of the teachings of the new Patriarch of Constan…

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Our Holy Mother Melania the Elder (410) 1:05

1M ago1:05

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She was a wealthy and noble lady, born in Spain. Her husband and two of her children died and, seeing the vanity of worldly things, she travelled to Egypt to visit the monks at Nitria. She gave away most of her great wealth to the needy, and to Egyptian Christians being persecuted by the Arians. It is said that in three days she fed some 5,000 peop…

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Hieromartyr Marcellinus, pope of Rome (304) 1:51

1M ago1:51

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"When the Emperor Diocletian summoned him and threatened him with torture, he offered sacrifice to idols and was, because of this, rewarded by the Emperor with a costly garment. But Marcellinus repented bitterly and began to weep both day and night for his rejection of Christ, even as the Apostle Peter had before him. A synod of bishops was held at…

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Our Holy Mothers the Martyrs Archelaïs, Thekla and Susanna (293) 1:53

1M ago1:53

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"As pure and virginal nuns, they lived the ascetic life in an unknown monastery near Rome. When a persecution of Christians arose under the wicked Emperor Diocletian, they fled to Campania and settled near the town of Nola. Their holy life could not be concealed, and people from nearby began to come to them for counsel, instruction and help in vari…

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Blessed Constantine, Metropolitan of Kiev (1159) 1:36

1M ago1:36

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In his day there was great disorder among the princes of Russia and in the Russian Church. One of the rival princes appointed a monk named Kim as Metropolitan of Kiev without seeking the blessing of the Patriarch of Constantinople, as was still done at that time. The Patriarch sent Metropolitan Constantine to investigate, and he deposed Kim and ban…

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Homily | Think Harvest - Sunday Of The Samaritan Woman 2024 27:21

1M ago27:21

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The Arena Podcast is the flagship of Patristic Nectar Publications. It contains the Sunday Sermons and other theological reflections by Father Josiah Trenham delivered from the ambon of St. Andrew Church in Riverside, California, and begun in 2010. There are more than 600 sermons and lectures covering ten years of preaching through the liturgical c…

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He is mentioned in the Epistles of St Paul (Romans 16:14). He served as a bishop in the first-century Church, and died a martyr. His book, The Shepherd, is one of the earliest Christian writings outside of the New Testament, and was held in such esteem by the early Church that it is sometimes found in ancient collections of the Holy Scriptures. He…

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