Sunday after Theophany (Matt.4:12-17) All the preaching of Christ and His Church can be summed up in only one word: repentance. As we heard in today’s Gospel reading, Christ began […]
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Sermon on the 9th Sunday of Luke
(Luke 12:16-21) […]
Sermon of 8th Luke.The Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37)
All of humanity lives in community. On the basic level, we have the family. From there we move up to the village/town, and then to cities. Over all […]
5th Sunday of the Fast—St. Mary of Egypt
(Mark 10:32-45) God spoke in particular to St. Mary of Egypt We Christians fall far short. In the Day of Judgement the Lord will say to […]
2nd Sunday of the fast. Saint Gregory Palamas
(Mark. 2, 1-12) The second Sunday of Great Lent, we could easily say, is a second Sunday of Orthodoxy, a Sunday of Orhodox practice. And it is not by […]
Cheesefare Sunday
Return to God Great Lent is a forty-day period for us to return to God. Due to our sins, we find ourselves outside of paradise. Realizing this fact we seek […]
Sunday of the Prodigal Son
And with our sins, even though we are Christians! Theword ‘prodigal’ (ἄσωτος)comesfromtheverb ‘tosave’ (σώζω) and its negation, as is indicated by the alpha (α). After the fall, man finds […]
Presentation of Jesus at the Temple
The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, which falls on 2 February, celebrates an early episode in the life of Jesus. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, it is one of […]
Sunday of the Canaanite Woman
(Matt.15, 21-28) Humility holds the door of God’s mercy open In today’s gospel reading, we find a woman in great need: her daughter is horribly demon-possessed. In […]
Riches are the obstacle – Zaccheus Sunday (Luke 15)
It was as though Zaccheus and Christhad a secret communion. As though a secret code was working between them. Immediately Zaccheus, without forgetting the great condescension that the Lords howed him (ashe […]