Dcn. Michael Cook, Author at Orthodox Life

March 24, 2021 0

"While the world fights over mask wearing and lockdowns, while it riots and engages in political battles, let us as Christians take what St Paul says to heart so that peace and love can reign in the Church."

We are Christendom: A Review of The Age of Paradise

Dcn. Michael Cook

Book Reviews

December 29, 2020 0

Review of: Archpriest John Strickland, The Age of Paradise: Christendom from Pentecost to the First Millennium

Holy Trinity Monastery Cathedral, Jordanville, New York

The Greater Your Authority, the Greater Your Duty

Dcn. Michael Cook

Sermons and Homilies

December 10, 2020 0

Homily on the Centennial Anniversary of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia by Deacon Andrei Psarev Delivered during Divine...

Metropolitan Hilarion, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

Let us Continue to Walk the Royal Path

Dcn. Michael Cook

Primatial and Synodal Epistles

November 25, 2020 0

Jubilee Epistle of His Eminence Hilarion Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad NEW YORK: November 18, 2020

Supreme Commanders of the Armies of Heaven

Dcn. Michael Cook

Lives of Saints

November 21, 2020 0

The Eighth Day of the Month of November — A Homily on the Synaxis of the Holy Chief Commander Michael...

Every Christian Must Bear His Cross

Dcn. Michael Cook

Sermons and Homilies

October 30, 2020 0

By Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky) t today’s Divine Liturgy we heard that the Lord Jesus Christ said that a Christian...

Unseen Warfare: Recommended Reading

Dcn. Michael Cook

Spiritual Discipline

September 25, 2020 0

A roundup of edifying reading for our times, from around the Orthodox web.

Love Has Come: The Nativity of the Theotokos

Dcn. Michael Cook

Lives of Saints

September 22, 2020 0

An excerpt from the Prologue of Ochrid

Flee to Our Mother in Times of Trouble

Dcn. Michael Cook

Sermons and Homilies

September 18, 2020 0

Sermon on the Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God by Monk-Subdeacon Theodore August 15/28, 2020

Rejoice! Be Not Afraid.

Dcn. Michael Cook

Sermons and Homilies

August 21, 2020 0

"One of the cornerstone messages of the Gospel is the preaching of joy. Having met the myrrh-bearing women after the resurrection, the Lord says to them: Rejoice! And now, on the path toward His suffering on the Cross, He gives His disciples a foretaste of the future of the time of the resurrection."

The Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord, God, and Saviour Jesus Christ

Dcn. Michael Cook

Liturgics

August 19, 2020 0

Troparion, tone 7: Thou wast transfigured on the mountain, O Christ our God, showing to Thy disciples Thy glory as each one could endure; shine forth Thou on us, who are sinners all, Thy light ever-unending. Through the prayers of the Theotokos. O Light-giver, glory to Thee.

An Orthodox Response to the Emerging Church Movement

Dcn. Michael Cook

Theology

August 18, 2020 0

This article constitutes the final installment in a series adapted from the author’s undergraduate thesis, An Ancient Future Church?: An...

The Agony of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane

Dcn. Michael Cook

Scripture

August 14, 2020 0

by New Hieromartyr Archpriest John Vostorgov Today is the feast of the Procession of the Life-Giving Wood, one of three...

The Glorification of St Herman of Alaska in the Russian Church

Dcn. Michael Cook

Primatial and Synodal Epistles

August 12, 2020 0

Epistle of Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad on the 50th...

A New Kind of Christianity?

Dcn. Michael Cook

Ecclesiology

May 26, 2020 0

A last installment examining the ECM in its own self-understanding. In the next two and final installments of this series, we turn firmly to an Orthodox examination of its ecclesiological ideas.

Author Dcn. Michael Cook