The Gift

In this homily, Fr Timothy explores the nature and role of the Holy Spirit, and the incarnation of God as the church. We become the Body of Christ, His eyes and ears, hands and feet. Father Timothy also briefly touches on the role of the Holy Spirit outside the church, the Giver of Life who is 'everywhere present and fills all things'.

Fr Timothy considers the two readings, Gospel and Acts of the Apostles, that are read on the Sunday of the Paralysed man. They point clearly, in this Paschal season leading up to the Ascension of Christ, that at it's core the church's ministry is that of healing, not moralism. The judgement of the church should be like that of a physician, to identify the spiritual sores and paralysis and to heal,...

Fr Timothy considers the Gospel of St John at the Vespers of Love on Pascha Sunday evening. The Gift of Love is taken out to the world.

Fr Timothy explores the experience of the Myrhh bearing women as they approach the Tomb

Fr Timothy considers the true nature of Christian love in meditating on Christ's trial and crucifixion.

In this homily, Fr Timothy considers the difference between 'resucitation' and resurrection. He contrasts Christ's raising of the son of the widow of Nain, and Lazarus who was definitely dead for 4 days, and His own Resurrection to eternal life. This helps us to understand a little of what is impossible to know; what it's like to exist beyond space and time, in the eternal presence of the glory of...

In this homily, Fr Timothy considers the importance to silence and stillness (hesychia) to the Orthodox Christian tradition, despite all the words, movement, sounds and smells, the Christian encounters God's divine energies through the silence and stillness that is at the heart of the Divine Liturgy

Fr Timothy, for a moment forgetting the theme of Gift,  seeks to illustrate the theology of the Divine Energies of God, expressed more effectively by St Gregory Palamas, and the implications for our understanding of the difference between Mary as Birthgiver of Christ-God (begotten before all ages), rather than the Mother of God

On the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee just before Lent, Fr Timothy considers pride and it's effects, driving the need to seek security in anything other than the Person of the Incarnate God, Jesus Christ.

In this additional talk after the liturgy, Father Timothy muses on the nature of marriage and monastic life, both as means of holiness, and the importance of coming to both as whole and free persons in Christ.

As an extra, here is Fr Timothy speaking at the Annual conference of the Fellowship of St Sergius and St Alban in 2015 about 'Orthodox Social Teaching'

The progress through the liturgy is paused for the Sunday of Forgiveness as the Orthodox Christian enters liturgically into Lent. Fr Timothy considers the gift of offering and receiving forgiveness, and its role in healing the whole person.

In this episode, Fr Timothy considers the prayers for all the saints who have shared their talents to build the Body of Christ through the centuries;  'forefathers, fathers, patriarchs, prophets, apostles, preachers, evangelists, martyrs, confessors, teachers, and every righteous spirit made perfect in faith'.  He considers the contemporary demands for 'leadership' within the Church, rat...

At the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Fr Timothy reflects on becoming united to the Church, personally and as churches, by thinking about the prayer in the Liturgy of St Basil "And unite us all to one another who become partakers of the one Bread and the Cup in the communion of the one Holy Spirit. Grant that none of us may partake of the holy Body and Blood of Your Christ to judgm...

Fr Timothy explores the liturgical meaning of the declaration of the Gifts as 'Thine of thine own', the gift of Christ to us, offered to God.

The Feast of the Baptism of Creation by Christ (6th Jan 2019)

The Liturgy Slowly: The Procession of the People of God (12th Aug 2018)

Transfiguration: The last of the stories of Christ (12th Aug 2018)

The Liturgy Slowly: Procession of the Gifts (21st Oct 2018)

The Liturgy Slowly: The Cherubic Hymn (7th Oct 2018)

The Liturgy Slowly: The Creed (4th Nov 2018)

Feast of the Conception of the Theotokos  (9th Dec 2018) considering the question 'Who is Mary?'.

12th Aug 2018

Feast of Ss Joachim and Anna 9th Sept 2018, the first feast of the ecclesiastical year, and the most controversial

23rd Sept 2018