Red. Golden-Ship.ru 2012 Table of Contents PREFACE SERMON ON THE SUNDAY OF VAI SERMON ON PASSION. NINTH. A WORD ON PASSION. THE TENTH WORD ON PASSION. THE ELEVENTH WORD ON PASSION. TWELFTH HOMILY AT VESPERS ON THE FIRST DAY OF PASCHA HOMILY AT THE FIRST PASCHAL VESPERS HOMILY ON THE SECOND DAY OF ST. PASCHA 1951 ON THE SUNDAY OF ANTIPASCHA. ON THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD.

HOMILY FOR THE SUNDAY OF THE MYRRH-BEARING WOMEN, HOMILY FOR THE PARALYTIC (1) HOMILY FOR THE SUNDAY FOR THE PARALYTIC (2) 6 ACCORDING TO PASCHA, WEEK 4. FLESH AND SPIRIT. WHY ARE OUR PRAYERFUL PETITIONS NOT ALWAYS FULFILLED IN EVERYONE WHO CONFESSES THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, GOD ABIDES FOR A WEEK OF 8? ABOUT THE MIRACULOUS FEEDING OF THE PEOPLE. WEEK 8. ABOUT MIRACLES. WEEK 15. WHAT IS ETERNAL LIFE.

HOMILY FOR THE SUNDAY BEFORE THE EXALTATION. "GOD HAS RECONCILED THE WORLD TO HIMSELF." WEEK 16. THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS. WEEK 18. ABOUT ALMSGIVING. WEEK 19. AS YOU WOULD THAT MEN SHOULD DO TO YOU, DO YOU ALSO TO THEM. WEEK 19. MY STRENGTH IS MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS. WEEK 19. WHEN I AM WEAK, THEN I AM STRONG. WEEK 23. ABOUT THE GADARENE DEMONIAC

HOMILY FOR SUNDAY 24 ON THE EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS (CH. 2:11-22). "TAKE, EAT..." WEEK 25. THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN MAN. WEEK 26. THE PARABLE OF THE MAD RICH MAN. WEEK 26. THE EPISTLE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL TO THE EPHESIANS (CH. 5, 1-19). WEEK 28. THE PARABLE OF THOSE INVITED TO THE SUPPER. WEEK 29. ABOUT INGRATITUDE. WEEK 31. ABOUT THE BLIND MAN OF HIREKHON. WEEK 34. ON THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD (EPH. 6:10-12) SUNDAY 36.

"COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN..." WEEK 36. ABOUT PREDESTINATION. WEEK 37. ON THE NON-CONDEMNATION OF PASTORS. SERMON ON THE SUNDAY OF THE PUBLICAN AND THE PHARISEE. HOMILY FOR THE SUNDAY OF THE PRODIGAL SON. FLESH AND SPIRIT. HOMILY FOR MEATFARE SUNDAY. ABOUT THE LAST JUDGMENT. MEATFARE WEEK. HOMILY ON THE LAST JUDGMENT.

HOMILY FOR CHEESEFARE SUNDAY. "FAST HAS COME – THE MOTHER OF CHASTITY." HOMILY AT VESPERS OF CHEESEFARE WEEK. HOMILY FOR THE SUNDAY OF THE VENERATION OF THE CROSS. "COMFORT, COMFORT MY PEOPLE." 5th Sunday of Great Lent. "THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK" (GAL. 3:28). SERMON ON NEW YEAR'S DAY. HOMILY ON THE SECOND DAY OF THE NATIVITY OF CHRIST, 1951.

HOMILY ON THE DAY OF THE MEETING OF THE LORD. HOMILY ON THE DAY OF THE TRANSFER OF THE RELICS OF ST. NICHOLAS. HOMILY ON THE DAY OF THE NATIVITY OF ST. FORERUNNER AND BAPTIST OF THE LORD JOHN. HOMILY ON THE FEAST DAY OF ST. PRINCE VLADIMIR. HOMILY ON THE DAY OF ST. OF THE PROPHET ELIJAH ON PRAYER. HOMILY ON THE DAY OF THE TRANSFIGURATION OF THE LORD ON THE SPIRITUAL LIGHT.

HOMILY ON THE DAY OF THE TRANSFIGURATION OF THE LORD. HOMILY ON THE DAY OF THE DORMITION OF THE MOTHER OF GOD. HOMILY ON THE DAY OF THE REPOSE OF ST. APOSTLE JOHN THE THEOLOGIAN. HOMILY ON THE DAY OF ST. OF THE APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST LUKE. SPEECH AT THE FUNERAL OF ARCHIMANDRITE TIKHON. SERMON AT THE PANIHIDA ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF ARCHIMANDRITE TIKHON. WEEK 20. ABOUT THE RESURRECTION OF THE SON OF THE WIDOW OF NAIN.

MEMOIRS OF ST. LUKE. The history of the book that you, dear reader, hold in your hands, is not like the history of most books that have been published before and are published now. Its author, then Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimea, and now St. Luke, did not prepare for publication his sermons, read from the episcopal cathedra in 1949-1952.

After all, in the years of official atheism, it was dangerous to even dream of publishing original theological works, especially apologetic (defending faith from godlessness). It was a reckless feat of the archbishop that he addressed his flock with such a bold verbal word of God's truth. But his grateful listeners could not reconcile themselves to the fact that this priceless word would be kept only in their hearts.

They wanted it to penetrate the souls of as many people as possible, through thorns, through space and time. And God gave them such an opportunity. As in the distribution of St. Luke's book "Spirit, Soul and Body", the faithful became associates of their beloved archpastor by implementing "samizdat". But in this case, they did not just reproduce the written text.

From week to week, from month to month, from year to year, they took shorthand (after all, at that time a tape recorder was the greatest rarity), retyped sermons on a typewriter. And it was risky, since all the cars were registered under numbers in the NKVD. They bound these sheets on home bookbinders with such love and care that no official publication of either that time or later had ever been honored.

On the binding of one of the volumes of such "samizdat" that has come down to us, the Holy Cross is even imprinted. And this, too, threatened with severe punishment in atheistic times. And one more important detail. This manuscript has come down to us thanks to works of mercy. It was carefully kept by the nun Elizabeth, who was vouchsafed not only to be personally acquainted with St. Luke, but also to become a patient of the outstanding surgeon Voino-Yasenetsky.