Sermon

 1 TruePastor|        all-night vigil to St. John Chrisostom (9-Feb-77).~Dear brothers
 2 TruePastor| celebrating the memory of St. John Chrisostom, or rather the memory of
 3 TruePastor|   constantly hear the name of John Chrisostom during the church worship,
 4 TruePastor|            the liturgy of St. John Chrisostom. But along with that how
 5 TruePastor|         such as it was.~Saint John Chrisostom was born in Antioch, which
 6 TruePastor|           Basil the Great and John Chrisostom did not hesitate at all
 7 TruePastor|       though his convictions. John Chrisostom was one of the Libanius'
 8 TruePastor|         Church's service. And John Chrisostom began his serving in the
 9 TruePastor|           read. For ten years John Chrisostom had been a reader. But his
10 TruePastor|       being already a reader, John Chrisostom was in a communal monastery
11 TruePastor|             For six years did John Chrisostom serve the Church in the
12 TruePastor|         priest.~For ten years John Chrisostom had been a priest in Antioch
13 TruePastor|         destroy the city. But John Chrisostom did not leave his flock.
14 TruePastor|        disaster. The glory of John Chrisostom (though he was not called
15 TruePastor|           though he was not called Chrisostom in that time yet) spread
16 TruePastor| Constantinople.~For six years John Chrisostom stayed the bishop in the
17 TruePastor|           we read now some of John Chrisostom's sermons you would see
18 TruePastor|              he, according to John Chrisostom, was the most dreadful criminal~
19 TruePastor|             they rose against John Chrisostom, those two great powers
20 TruePastor|        find it, of course, in John Chrisostom's biography. There it is
21 TruePastor|      played the key role, for John Chrisostom was exiled not after the
22 TruePastor|          to be such. And then John Chrisostom, according to the resolution
23 TruePastor|            happened that when John Chrisostom had been taken away to the
24 TruePastor|            him scattered, and John Chrisostom returned to his place with
25 TruePastor|              But not long was John Chrisostom a bishop again, only for
26 TruePastor|            second time exiled John Chrisostom. And it happened that in
27 TruePastor|        everyone of them tried John Chrisostom to be taken somewhere even
28 TruePastor|         Soon the glory of St. John Chrisostom spread all over the world.
29 TruePastor|           who was baptised by John Chrisostom, whom John Chrisostom often
30 TruePastor|         John Chrisostom, whom John Chrisostom often held upon his laps,
31 TruePastor|       transport the relics of John Chrisostom. He was met already as far
32 TruePastor|          all time speak about John Chrisostom. But we should not only
33 TruePastor|        every opportunity. For John Chrisostom was not only a great theologian
34 TruePastor|          of preaching to them John Chrisostom had learnt the Goths' language
35 TruePastor|         way is shown to us by John Chrisostom. This is the way of prayer,
36 TruePastor|            the prayers of St. John Chrisostom God gave us strengths to
37 TruePastor|    faithful witness was Saint John Chrisostom himself!~Amen.~