On Saturday, March 15, 2025, Igumen Seraphim Bell celebrated the Divine Liturgy for an English-speaking community at the Church of St. Nicholas in Novaya Sloboda in Moscow.
His homily focused on the life and theology of St. Gregory Palamas: A Rare Case in TraditionAn ascetic who has been accounted worthy of passionlessness can thereafter taste of the experience of pure prayer. His mind “transcends all things” in prayer and renounces all perceptions of created beings and adores the Uncreated God, and the yet higher union with God is possible. Those who have been illumined by the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, have come to know Him and contemplate the Uncreated Light.
“>St. Gregory Palamas, who was commemorated the following day, on the second Sunday of Great Lent. Fr. Seraphim spoke of how the Church confirmed that St. Gregory’s teaching was, in fact, what the Church has always experienced and taught—that “our Orthodox life is union and communion with the living God-Man, Jesus.
