The Assumption (KOIMISIS) Of The Theotokos

Greek Orthodox Church

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Orthodox Life Sessions: The First 3 Tuesdays of the month - September to May.

(The following files are wma - windows media files - click on the links below to listen to the orthodox life session, or right click on the link and choose "save as" to save the file to your computer)

 

  • May 23, 2011  - 32.8mb 1 hour 11 minutes – Orthodox Life concludes this spring, finishing 1 Timothy, chapters 5 and 6.
  • May 16, 2011  - 41.9mb 1 hour 30 minutes - Father Michael continues with 1 Timothy, Chapters 3 and 4.
  • May 09, 2011  - 47.4mb 1 hour 42 minutes - Father Michael begins 1 Timothy, Chapter 2.
  • May 02, 2011  - 44.7mb 1 hour 36 minutes - Father Michael finishes the Epistle to 1 Timothy, Chapter 1.
  • April 11, 2011  - 42.5mb 1 hour 31 minutes - Father Michael continues the Epistle to 1 Timothy, Chapter 1.
  • April 04, 2011  - 30.1mb 1 hour 05 minutes - Father Michael begins the Epistle to Timothy.
  • March 21, 2011  - 44.8mb 1 hour 36 minutes - Father Michael continues the Epistle to Titus.
  • March 14, 2011  - 42.5mb 1 hour 31 minutes - Father Michael continues the Epistle to Titus.
  • February 21, 2011  - 46.1mb 1 hour 39 minutes - Father Michael continues the Epistle to Titus.
  • February 18, 2011  - 41.3mb 1 hour 29 minutes - Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia preached at St. Nick’s Greek Orthodox Church of Ann Arbor  on the topic of “Why Follow Christ”.
  •  February 17, 2011  - 22.5mb 0 hours 48 minutes - Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia preached at St. John's Church of Sterling Heights, about Clergy and Laity in the Orthodox Church.
  • February 14, 2011 -35.6mb,  1 Hour 17 minutes - Father Michael continues the Epistle to Titus.
  • February 07, 2011 -38.9mb,  1 Hour 24 minutes - Father Michael begins the Epistle to Titus, preceded by a discussion of the upcoming Lenten period..
  • January 18, 2011 -41.6mb,  1 Hour 27 minutes - Father Michael finishes the book of Philippians.
  • January 4, 2011 -44.4mb,  1 Hour 3 minutes - Father Michael continues Philippians.
  • December 21, 2010 -45.2mb,  1 Hour 37 minutes - Father Michael completes Philippians, Ch 3 through verse 11.
  • December 07, 2010 -41.5mb,  1 Hour 29 minutes - Father Michael completes Philippians, Ch 2, concluding with a discussion on salvation.
  • November 23, 2010 -38.7mb,  1 Hour 23 minutes - Father Michael continues with Philippians, Ch 2, versus 5 – 11.
  • November 16, 2010 -37.5mb,  1 Hour 21 minutes - Father Michael continues with Philippians, Ch 2, focusing on Paul’s stressing unity in the church.
  • November 09, 2010 -35.5mb,  1 Hour 16 minutes - Father Michael continues in Philippians, Ch 1, with a prelude on Nectarius, our 20th century saint.
  • October 19, 2010 -41.1mb,  1 Hour 28 minutes - Father Michael continues in Philippians, Ch 1, with an exegesis of the language and era of Paul
  • October 12, 2010 -49.3mb,  1 Hour 46 minutes - Father Michael begins the study of the Epistle to the Philippians.
  • October 5, 2010 -44.4mb,  1 Hour 36 minutes - Father Michael begins this year’s orthodox life with a discussion of Paul’s conversion and the chronology of his missionary journeys.  This is a prelude to the verse by verse study of Paul’s prison epistles, beginning next week with Philippians.
  • May 25, 2010 -41.6mb,  1 Hour 27 minutes - Father Anthony's last orthodox life at Assumption Greek Orthodox Church on the topic of The Church under Islam, and into the twentieth century.
  • May 18, 2010 -49.1mb,  1 Hour 43 minutes - Father Anthony discusses the conversion of the Slaus, with emphasis on the apostles to the Slaus, Cyril and Methodius.  This is proceeded by a discussion of church issues of current interest of the Diaspora factors leading up to the "Great Schism". orthodox life with the history of our church during the 5th & 6th Ecumenical councils
  • May 11, 2010 -45.3mb,  1 Hour 35 minutes - Father Anthony discusses the factors leading up to the "Great Schism". orthodox life with the history of our church during the 5th & 6th Ecumenical councils
  • May 4,2010 - Unfortunately I didn't get the recording for this orthodox life session 
  • April 27, 2010 -37.5mb,  1 Hour 19 minutes - Father Anthony continues orthodox life with the history of our church during the 5th & 6th Ecumenical councils
  • April 20, 2010 -39.2mb,  1 Hour 22 minutes - Father Anthony continues orthodox life with the history of our church during the 3rd & 4th Ecumenical councils
  • March 16, 2010 -44.9mb,  1 Hour 37 minutes - Father Anthony continues orthodox life with the history of our church from Constantine through the second ecumenical council.
  • March 9, 2010 -38.1mb,  1 Hour 22 minutes - Father Anthony continues orthodox life with the history of our church in the early 4th century focusing on Diocletian, and the intensified persecutions that the church is under
  • March 2, 2010 -44.7mb,  1 Hour 34 minutes - Father Anthony continues orthodox life with the history of the church in the 3rd century, focusing on persecutions of the church, roman attitude towards Christianity, and Origen from Tertullian.
  • February 23, 2010 -42.54mb,  1 Hour 31 minutes - Father Anthony continues orthodox life with teachings on the 2nd century Christianity including Marcion, Valentinus, Irenaeus of Lyons, Justin Martyr. & more discussion on Apologists & Heresies 
  • February 2, 2010 -47.8mb,  1 Hour 42 minutes - Father Anthony continues orthodox life with the Church History (3) Apolistic Fathers (note this file is in a different format - it requires to be played in quick time b/c it is a .m4a format)
  • January 26, 2010 -41.4mb,  1 Hour 27 minutes - Father Anthony continues orthodox life 
  • December 8, 2009 -25.8mb,  54 minutes - Father Anthony continues orthodox life on the topic of the sacrament of Holy Unction, anointment for healing, celebrated in America, especially on Holy Wednesday
  • December 1, 2009 -50.3mb,  1 Hour 46 minutes - Father Anthony continues orthodox life on the topic of the sacrament of marriage
  • November 19, 2009 -34.2mb,  1 Hour 14 minutes - This is not a typical Orthodox Life Session; Father Anthony is on a panel discussing the importance of prayer
  • November  3, 2009 -39.1mb,  1 Hour 24 minutes - Father Anthony continues orthodox life.
  • October 20, 2009 -15.9mb,  1 Hour 48  minutes - Father Anthony continues orthodox life with discussions on communion and confession.
  • October 13, 2009 -54.2mb,  1 Hour 54 minutes - Father Anthony continues orthodox life.
  • October 6, 2009 -37.8mb,  1 Hour 20 minutes - Father Anthony begins the fall orthodox life.
  • May 19, 2009 -23.9mb,  49 minutes - Father Michael concludes the last session of 2008/2009 Orthodox Life with the end of Ephesians.
  • May 12, 2009 -47.9mb, 1 hour 41 minutes - Father Michael Resumes Orthodox Life with the lesson on Ephesians.
  • May 05, 2009 -41.7mb, 1 hour 28 minutes - Father Michael Resumes Orthodox Life with Ephesians Chapter 4 through Chapter 5:7.
  • April 07, 2009 -44.7mb, 1 hour 34 minutes - Father Anthony takes us through the services of Holy Week, starting with the Saturday of Lazarus, ending with the Agape service on Easter Sunday.
  • March 17, 2009 -41.9mb, 1 hour 30 minutes - Fr Michael continues Orthodox life on St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians.
  • March 10, 2009 -38.4mb, 1 hour 21 minutes - Fr Michael continues Orthodox life on St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians - starting with the first 6 versus of Chapter 4.
  • March 3, 2009 -36.2mb, 1 hour 18 minutes - Fr Michael continues Orthodox life on St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians - finishing Chapter 3
  • February 17, 2009 -43.8mb, 1 hour 32 minutes - Fr Michael continues Orthodox life on St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians - finishing chapter 2 and getting mid way through Chapter 3
  • February 10, 2009 -46.5mb, 1 hour 38 minutes - Fr Michael continues Orthodox life on St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians.
  • February 3, 2009 -44.1mb, 1 hour 35 minutes - Fr Michael continues Orthodox life on St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians - chapter 2.
  • January 27, 2009 -50.4mb, h hour 46 minutes - Fr Michael continues Orthodox life on St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians.
  • January 20, 2009 -33.4mb, h hour 31 minutes - Fr Michael starts off the new year with Orthodox life, beginning with Ephesians Chapter 1.
  • December 16, 2008 - 13.4mb, 28 minutes - Fr Anthony's orthodox life continues with the book of ACTS - (we were 1/2 hour late because of the snow storm - apologies!!!)
  • December 02, 2008 - 29.9mb, 1 hour 4 minutes - Fr Anthony's orthodox life continues with chapter 8 of the book of ACTS - (sorry - i missed the first 15 minutes of this orthodox life session....)
  • November 25, 2008 - 33.8mb, 1 hour 13 minutes - Fr Anthony's orthodox life continues with chapters 6 and 7 the book of ACTS - Chapter 6 focused on the purpose and logistics of hierarchy within the church.  Chapter 7 focused on Stephen's explanation to the Jews of their own hypocritical beliefs through explaining stories from the old testament (i.e. Exodus)
  • November 18, 2008 - 32mb, 1 hour 07 minutes - Fr Anthony's orthodox life continues with chapters 4 and 5 of the book of ACTS.
  • November 11, 2008 - 39.4mb, 1 hour 23 minutes - Fr Anthony's orthodox life continues with chapter 4 the book of ACTS.  We ended up focusing the discussion around the orthodox view of cremation, as well as a discussion around the saints of the church vs. how other religions view saints
  • October 21, 2008 - 30.2mb, 1 hour 5 minutes - Fr Anthony's orthodox life continues with chapter 3 the book of ACTS.
  • October 14, 2008 - 20.3mb, 1 hour 24 minutes (Note this is in mp4 format)- Fr Anthony's orthodox life continues with chapter 2 of the book of ACTS.
  • October 7, 2008 - 35.8mb, 1 hour 15 minutes - Fr Anthony's orthodox life begins a discussion on the book of ACTS.
  • April 15, 2008 - 38mb, 1 hour 22 minutes - Fr Anthony's discussion on St. Paul's Epistle to the Colossians.  The topic is on spouses submitting to one another.
  • April 8, 2008 - 33mb, 1 hour 9 minutes - Fr Anthony's discussion on St. Paul's Epistle to the Colossians  Chapter 3.  The discussion topic before getting into the Epistle was on the Rapture. 
  • April 1, 2008 - 35mb, 1 hour 15 minutes - Fr Anthony's discussion on St. Paul's Epistle to the Colossians  Chapter 2 vs 15 - through part of Chapter 3.  The main discussion topic was on Gnosticism vs. Materialism vs. Christianity.  
  • March 18, 2008 - 32.3mb, 1 hour 9 minutes - Fr Anthony's discussion on St. Paul's Epistle to the Colossians  Vs 10-15 - with discussions on the topics of baptism and salvation.
  • March 11, 2008 - 28.8mb, 1 hour 2 minutes - Fr Anthony's discussion on St. Paul's Epistle to the Colossians 
  • February 19, 2008 - 47mb, 1 hour 41 minutes - Fr Anthony's lesson on St. Paul's Epistle to the Colossians Chapter 2
  • February 18, 2008 - 32.2mb 1 hour 9 minutes - Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia celebrated Great Vespers at St. John's Church of Sterling Heights, and then gave a talk on Great Lent
  • January 29, 2008 - 46mb, 1 hour 46 minutes, 33 seconds - Fr Anthony's lesson on the history of church hierarchy i.e. deacons, priests, bishops, arch bishops, and patriarchs 
  • January 22, 2008 - 20.5mb, 43 minutes, 27 seconds - Fr Anthony's lesson on St. Paul's Epistle to the Colossians - unfortunately the battery to my recorder died half way through - so I was only able to capture 43 minutes of the lesson
  • January 15, 2008 - 40.8mb, 1 hour 26 minutes, 10 seconds - Fr Anthony's introduction and background info on St. Paul's Epistle to the Colossians