Hebrews 4:14-5:6 St. Mark 8:34-9:1 Click here to listen to a recording that includes this homily. Cross: half way through Great Lent. Meant as an encouragement, a rallying point planted in the midst of the battle to gather and reinvigorate the troops. What is virtue? What does it take to be virtuous? What does it […]
Homily – A Vision of Heaven… and Hell (Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas)
March 20, 2011 By
Hebrews 1:10 – 2:3 St. Mark 2:1-12 Introduction: Repentance as the Narrow Gate to Health and PerfectionThe way to spiritual health and enlightenment is through repentance. This is a hard way, a narrow gate (Matthew 7:13), but of all the other possibilities, all the other paths to real life and meaning, all the other ways […]
Homily – Triumph of Orthodoxy (GO TEAM!!!)
March 13, 2011 By
Hebrews 11:24-26,32 – 12:2 St. John 1: 43-51 Go Orthodoxy! Today I would like to make three points about this celebration of Orthodoxy’s great victory iconoclasm and, by extension, every sort of heresy. 1. The Victory of Truth over confusion, of light over shadow and darkness, of life over death. Living in New England, we […]
An Epistle from our Bishops (Cheesefare Sunday)
March 6, 2011 By
Click here for a podcast that includes this homily!!! Romans 13:11-14:4 St. Matthew 6: 14-21 LENTEN EPISTLE OF THE PERMANENT CONFERENCE OF UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX BISHOPS BEYOND THE BORDERS OF UKRAINE Beloved in the Lord, Reverend Clergy and Monastics, dear Brothers and Sisters in Ukraine and beyond her borders! By God’s will, we draw near, once […]
20110304 Lent, News, and Evangelizing Moral Therapeutic Deists
March 3, 2011 By
The USB Symbol: a Sign of Ukrainian Orthodoxy’s Global Influence!!! Shownotes for 20110221Lesson: Lenten Epistle of the Permanent Conference of Ukrainian Orthodox Bishops beyond the Borders of Ukraine [Musical Interlude is the Lenten Prokimen “Turn not away Thy Face”, available here by St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in San Anselmo, CA.] Mail Call:Question from a new reader/listener: Why doesn’t […]
Homily – The Prodigal Son
February 20, 2011 By
1 Corinthians 6: 12-20 St. Luke 15: 11-32 The Sunday of the Prodigal Son: St. Luke 15: 11-32 [Restate the lesson of the Prodigal, of ourselves, and of humankind.] Three lessons today: 1.Home. It is real. It is the place you long for. You can distract yourself while you are away (and this is the […]
20110221 The Ontology of Evil
February 18, 2011 By
Shownotes for 20110221Lesson:Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron… But reject profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise yourself toward godliness. For bodily exercise profits […]
Homily – Preparing for the Resurrection (Publican and the Pharisee)
February 13, 2011 By
2 Timothy 3: 10-15 St. Luke 18: 10-14 Homily on the Publican and the Pharisee Today we begin the Triodion season. As a hospital led by the Great Physician, the Orthodox Church is very intentional about the way it guides us from our life of delusion and sickness towards a healthy and joyful one lived […]
Homily – Holiness and the Ontology of Evil
February 6, 2011 By
1 Timothy 4: 9-15 St. Luke 19: 1-10 Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron… But reject profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise yourself […]
Homily – The Path to Holiness
January 30, 2011 By
2 Corinthians 6:16 -7:1 St. Matthew 15: 21-28 You are a temple of the living God… Therefore… let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. (1 Cor, 6:16 & 7:1) 1. Review: holiness is real, it is a visible sign of God’s presence and action […]
