St. Matthew 21:33-42; 1 Corinthians 16:13-24 Work: A Homily for Labor Day Weekend This week’s epistle reading is a wonderful reminder that no parish exists in isolation (any more than Christians exist in isolation), and that the bonds between our parishes should be strengthened and cherished. I strongly encourage everyone to visit other parishes, especially on […]
ON THE FIRST SUNDAY of the Great Fast our Church celebrates the triumph of Orthodoxy, the victory of true Christian teaching over all perversions and distortions thereof—heresies and false teachings. On the second Sunday of the Great Fast it is as though this triumph of Orthodoxy is repeated and deepened in connection with the celebration of the memory of one of the greatest pillars of Orthodoxy, the hierarch Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica, who by his grace-bearing eloquence and the example of his highly ascetic private life put to shame the teachers of falsehood who dared reject the very essence of.Orthodoxy, the podvig of prayer and fasting, which enlightens the human mind with the light of grace and makes it a communicant of the divine glory.
20120902 Politics and Religion in Russia
September 2, 2012 By
Listen to the podcast! We begin this podcast with a talk about Taking Work Seriously. Next, we have a wonderful conversation with Nicolai Petro, PhD (Professor of Political Science at The University of Rhode Island) about the politics of Orthodoxy and Islam in Russia. During the first half we talk about the Pussy […]
Homily – On the Rich Young Man
August 26, 2012 By
St. Matthew 19:16-26 Commending our whole life unto Christ our God [Talk about triathlon yesterday, then segue into the challenges life provides us, then into …] We are all going to come to the end of ourselves. Some of you have already been through some seriously difficult times, but not everyone has. One of […]
Homily – On the Transfiguration
August 19, 2012 By
Homily on the Transfiguration (St. Matthew 17:1-9) Today we celebrate the way the glory of God was revealed on Mount Tabor. Although His body was no different than theirs (in its humanity), the chosen apostles, Peter, James, and John, saw Christ’s face “shine with such splendor that his face becomes like the sun in glory, […]
Homily – Mountains and Mustard Seeds
August 13, 2012 By
Christ said: “Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you (St. Matthew 17:20). Faith is at the center of today’s Gospel lesson. What does it mean to have […]
Homily – Frankenfood and Frankenchrists
July 30, 2012 By
Homily on the Feeding of the Five Thousand Today we hear how a great multitude of people followed Christ out into the wilderness to hear him preach. Then, when they got hungry, he fed them, multiplying the meagre amount of bread they had into enough to feed them and have plenty left over. The people […]
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 […]
