4 / 17 СЕНТЯБРЯ 2025 г.: С сентября 2023 года издательство «Patristic Nectar Publications» выпускает серию еженедельных видеообращений Преосвященного Иринея, епископа Лондонского и Западно-Европейского, посвященных различным темам христианской жизни в светоотеческой и церковной перспективе. Ниже представлен указатель более чем 80 видеоматериалов за первые два года этой серии, в который также включены некоторые более ранние лекции Владыки, а также различные беседы с молодёжью и ответы на вопросы на разные темы.

Новые видео продолжают регулярно записываться и еженедельно публикуются издательством Patristic Nectar на канале YouTube.

Sacraments and Sacramentality:

• • ‘Closed communion’: Why are heterodox not permitted to receive Holy Communion or partake of other Orthodox sacraments? (May 2024)
  • The necessity of the rule of preparation for Holy Communion. (August 2024)
  • ‘Axios!’ What does this really mean, when we sing it at an ordination? (March 2024)
  • ‘Sacraments’ outside the Church: Correcting false perceptions. (September 2025)
    • Older: Are there sacraments outside the Church? (January 2024)
  • What is the Liturgy of the Pre-sanctified Gifts? (March 2025)
  • On the connection of Confession and Communion. (December 2023)

Church Canons and Canonicity:

• • Understanding canonicity. (October 2023)
  • Is there a case to be made for changing ‘outdated’ Church Canons? (November 2024)
  • What is ‘economia’? (October 2023)
  • Can Bishops change the teaching or practices of the Church? (March 2024)

Doctrine and Dogma:

• • ‘What is unassumed is unhealed’: Why Jesus became fully human; a reflection on the word of St Gregory the Theologian. (September 2024)
  • ‘I was born in iniquity’ (Psalm 50): On original sin, freedom and enslavement. (May 2024)
    • A further word on original sin: responses to some queries. (May 2024)
    • What ‘fallen nature’ really means (interview). (April 2025)
  • Orthodox rejection of the ‘Immaculate Conception’. (August 2025)
  • Is hell real, or is it heaven ‘experienced differently’? (August 2024)

Authority and Teaching in the Church:

• • One true authority: confidence in the Church’s teaching, from Diognetus (September 2023)
  • Is the Church a man made ‘human institution’? (May 2025)
  • Do Orthodox Christians believe the Church is infallible? (August 2025)
  • Who can teach Orthodoxy? Is it the case that anyone with a blessing from his spiritual father has the authority to teach? (September 2025)
  • What is the ‘triumph’ of the Triumph of Orthodoxy? How Orthodoxy triumphed over darkness. (March 2025)

Ecumenism:

• • Do heretical or schismatic churches have Apostolic Succession? (August 2025)
    • What is Apostolic Succession? (March 2024)
  • The Orthodox view of ecumenism. (June 2025)
    • Can there be a good ecumenism? (July 2024)

Various Orthodox practices:

• • The grace of making pilgrimage. (August 2024)
  • Why do Orthodox women wear head coverings in the temple? (interview) (May 2021)
  • The significance of saying our name when we approach Holy Communion. (February 2024)
  • Must I ‘pay’? The significance of making offerings in the Church. (October 2024)
  • The necessity of giving alms. (April 2024)
  • Obedience to the ecumenical Church: Why we do not kneel on Sundays. (November 2024)
  • The Triumph of Orthodoxy: Why do we say ‘Anathema’? (May 2024)
    • Anathemas: Are we cursing those outside the Church? (August 2025)

Virtues and Vices:

• • What is sin? (January 2024)
  • The true ‘Holy War’: The war against sin. (April 2024)
  • What is a ‘passion’? (January 2024)
  • Imitating Christ. (October 2023)
  • On stillness. (November 2023)
  • Making an idol of the self. (June 2025)
  • The nature of hope in St Nikolai Velimirovich. (November 2025)
  • Combatting lust. (November 2025)

Repentance and Forgiveness:

• • What true repentance really means (interview). (April 2025)
  • True repentance: The witness of the Epistle to Diognetus. (September 2023)
  • The need to forgive: The testimony of the Rite of Forgiveness. (March 2025)
  • Is forgiveness too easy? (interview) (April 2021)
  • A transfigured life through repentance and grace: An address to Orthodox youth by Archimandrite Irenei. (February 2016)
  • The Publican and the Pharisee: It is time to make a choice. (February 2024)

Prayer:

• • Does God answer prayer? (February 2024)
  • Prayer in our daily life. An address to Orthodox youth by Archimandrite Irenei. (January 2014)

Ascetical labours:

• • The remembrance of death. (December 2023)
  • Cultivating peace. (December 2023)
  • A tool to combat anger: remembering the place of suffering in wrongdoing. (March 2024)
  • How to save thousands of people from hell: Understanding the saying of St Seraphim of Sarov. (October 2024)
  • What shall we do when fasting feels impossible? (interview) (April 2025)
  • Have people become less demanding of themselves? (interview by youth) (May 2022)

Pastoral matters:

• • On the death of a loved one. Why do children suffer? Reflections from St Basil the Great.(October 2024)

Priesthood & Service to the Church:

• • Is it wrong actively to desire to become a Priest? (June 2024)
  • What to do if our Priest is not a gifted preacher? (November 2025)
  • The Orthodox Priest and the love of God. On the Priesthood: An address by Archimandrite Irenei. (August 2012)
  • The Orthodox approach to mission. A talk by Archimandrite Irenei. (December 2014)

Personal life and spiritual life:

• • What does God want me to do with my life? How to discern God’s will. (August 2024)
  • Overthinking, doubt and hesitation. Overcoming ‘good intentions’. (September 2024)
  • Living conspicuously differently: The Epistle to Diognetus. (September 2023)
  • ‘Don’t be nice!’ The cult of ‘niceness’ in modern society, versus the commandment to love. (May 2024)
  • A time for fierceness: Not all gentleness is good or righteous. (April 2025)
  • Intellectualism and martyrdom: An example the Martyrdom of St Polycarp, on the risk of intellectualising a mind away from the love of God. (November 2023)
  • Inscribing hearts: St Gregory of Nazianzus on the preservation and inscription of the soul.(October 2024)
  • Gazing into the heights of Paradise: The martyrs’ witness to spiritual focus in difficult times. (November 2023)

Modernity and Secularism:

• • Fears of the modern world, by Archimandrite Irenei (January 2015).
  • How do we live with secularism as Orthodox Christians? (interview) (April 2025)
  • How is the Church in the 21st century different from the early Church? (interview by youth) (March 2022)
  • Does the modern world help or hinder the salvation of the soul? (interview by youth) (June 2022)
  • What do God and the Church offer a person in the modern world? (Interview) (February 2022)
  • What are the main challenges of the Church now? (interview by youth) (April 2022)
  • Fear and faith in the COVID crisis (interview). (September 2021)
  • 2,024 years of repentance: A new year’s reflection. (January 2024)

Identity:

• • Establishing our identity. What is ‘identity’? (interview) (April 2023)
  • Preserving our Orthodox identity and heritage in the diaspora: A talk to Orthodox youth.(June 2024)
  • The next generation in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia: An address to Orthodox youth. (January 2013)

The Internet, ‘Internet Orthodoxy’ and Social media:

• • ‘Internet Orthodoxy’ versus traditional Orthodox instruction (interview). (April 2023)
  • Why social media is damaging to the soul. (April 2025)
  • ’Commenting’: Dangers in the desire to critique and comment, drawn from Metropolitan Anastassy. (October 2023)
  • Fear being exacerbated by the Internet. (interview by youth) (June 2022)
  • The influence of the Internet on the perception of the Church. (interview by youth) (May 2022)

Orthodox education and formation:

• • Why do we read the Fathers and study the teachings of the Church? The necessity of striving to become better. (September 2023; the first of the PNP series)
  • Taking counsel from the wrong sources: Drawn from the writings of Metropolitan Anastassy. (November 2023)
  • What has gone wrong with academic theology? (July 2024)
  • The urgent need for Orthodox Christian schools. (July 2024)
  • Commencement address at Holy Trinity Seminary. (May 2020)