Listen to the podcast In this episode, I use the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul to frame the “recent unpleasantness” surounding Patriarch Filaret’s visit to Canada and the resignation of the OCA’s Metropolitan then share a most excellent interview with Dr. Deborah Sirko-Osadsa about things that Spiritual Fathers and Christians should know about genetic […]
Homily – Let your love be without hypocrisy
July 15, 2012 By
A Lesson on Living Well – A Lesson on Love Romans 12:6-14 (Epistle) Just prior to today’s reading, St. Paul had affirmed that all Christian are part of the same body. So having set in our mind that we are all on one team, working towards a single purpose; he encourages us to use our […]
Homily – Ss. Peter and Paul
July 14, 2012 By
Symbols of Nothing… but the One Thing Introduction It is has been a challenging few weeks for Orthodoxy in America. Here, I speak less of the repose of our beloved + Metropolitan Constantine – for his was a constant witness for the stability and unity that are in Christ – but rather of two […]
Homily – The Metaphor of Healing
July 1, 2012 By
A Meditation on the Metaphor of Healing Romans 6:18-23; St. Matthew 8:5-13 We think about things using metaphor – they frame the way we interact with ideas and define our experience and interaction with them [example]. This is especially true when it comes to our relationship with God and our participation in Him through His Holy […]
Homily – Consider the Lilies of the Field
June 24, 2012 By
Consider the Lilies of the Field: a meditation on St. Matthew 6:26-30 [Summer, so meditations rather than homilies] Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the […]
20120621 Interview with Fr. Peter Preble on Prayer and Spiritual Fatherhood
June 22, 2012 By
A call to make America into a holy nation. An interview with Fr. Peter Preble Priest, Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in the Americas Rector, St. Michael Orthodox Christian Church in Southbridge, Massachusetts Host, Shepherd of Souls podcast on Ancient Faith Radio Stavrofor Monk and Founder of the St. Columba of Iona Orthodox Monastery Chaplain, Dudley Fire Department […]
Homily, Saints of Rus-Ukraine and America: the coming baptism of America (and Woonsocket)
June 18, 2012 By
All Saints of Rus’-Ukraine, America, and Woonsocket (also Father’s Day) Romans 2:10-16: There is no partiality with God St. Matthew 4:18-23: Fishers of men The Church is Christ Incarnated: it blesses real people in time and place Last week we celebrated the lives of all the saints, known and unknown who have found perfection through […]
20120615 Orthodox and Genetics, Part One
June 16, 2012 By
A Pep Talk for the Orthodox Christian Sponsor: www.douglasaperkins.com Cool thing for the Prepper Priest from Duluth Trading Company: the prepper-priest’s kontorasson (clergy vest – I use the black one in tall; it has pockets for all my priest-stuff!) An interview with Dr. Deborah Sirko-Osadsa, D.A.B.M.G., F.A.C.M.G. Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Former Director, Molecular […]
Homily – All Saints: are we committed?
June 11, 2012 By
The Saints are committed to the Church – are we? Hebrews 11:33-12:2 Matthew 10:32-33, 37-38, 19:27-30 Christianity is a grass-roots movement: we are all called to be saints. There is no “glass-ceiling”. Don’t get confused by the titles or the visible organization. But this also means that the real decision is ours: there is nothing that comes […]
Homily for Pentecost: you can’t handle the Truth!
June 4, 2012 By
Homily: You Can’t Handle the Truth! The role of language in Pentecost. Translating is a tricky game. The beauty of Pentecost: God speaks to and through us in the pure language of Truth and Love. The problem? “We can’t handle the truth!” or rather, our egos can’t. Ego filters and translates what it hears […]
