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Apr 2023
55m 44s

The Sermon on the Mount (Part 1)

Fr. Thomas Hopko, and Ancient Faith Ministries
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Part 1 of a talk given at a Lenten retreat for the Council of Orthodox Christian Churches on the Niagara Frontier on March 15, 2008 at the St. Stephen Serbian Orthodox Church in Lackawanna, NY. 
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