Sunday of the Holy MyrrhbearersSt. Mark 15:43-16:8 Going to the Tomb – in ignorance and faith Introduction Joseph – a leader of the Jews and secret disciple of Jesus – asked the authorities for the body. He took it down from the cross, anointed it with spices, then placed it in a new tomb. He […]
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.
Homily – Seeking a Sign (St. Thomas Sunday)
May 1, 2011 By
St. Thomas Sunday, 2011: Homily (St. John 20: 19-31; Acts 5: 12-20) Thomas and the Need for Signs By this time, the resurrected Christ had already appeared to several of the apostles. Last Sunday, we heard how Christ came in to the locked house of the disciples, proclaimed His peace to them, and then commissioned […]
20110429 Pawlo’s Greatest Hits
April 30, 2011 By
Click Here to Listen/Download All Pawlo, All the Time In this episode, I prolong my break from discussing things like nephilim, singularities, and the immortality of the soul in order to do what sitcoms do during writer’s strike: a best-of/flashback show. The size of our audience has really grown over the last year, so many […]
20110420 Sounds of Lent and Holy Week
April 19, 2011 By
Shownotes for 20110420. Click here to listen to the podcast! This show departs from the usual format. It presents some of the sounds of Lent and Holy Week as they were voiced at St. Michael Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Woonsocket this year. Homilies from the Sundays of Saint John of the Ladder, Saint Mary of […]
Homily – Don’t Define God (Palm Sunday)
April 17, 2011 By
Philippians 4: 4-9 St. John 12: 1-18 For the Jews two thousand years ago, today was the culmination of their wait: the Messiah had come to save them: “Hosanna in the Highest! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord – the King of Israel!” It is a great day for us […]
Course on Orthodoxy, Death, and Eternal Life
April 15, 2011 By
Orthodoxy and Eternal LifeAdult EducationSt. Michael Ukrainian Orthodox Church Schedule: · Introduction: What is Life? Death? Why do we die? · What happens next? Orthodoxy (and the world) on the “Afterlife” · The Psalms and Songs of the Orthodox Funeral · “Buried Alive?” Christ’s Burial and Descent into Hades (Seminarian James Guba)*** · How then, […]
Homily – Sunday of Saint Mary of Egypt
April 10, 2011 By
Hebrews 9:11-14 St. Mark 10:32-45 Almost done with Lent – has it worked?One more week of Great Lent. Almost through reading Genesis. Almost done with fasting. Almost done with all the extra services and all the extra prostrations. But are we ready? Have we allowed the Lenten disciplines to penetrate our hearts? Are we ready […]
Homily – The Sunday of the Ladder
April 3, 2011 By
Hebrews 6:13-20 St. Mark 9:17-31 The Challenge: take the Gospel Seriously Saint John of the Ladder: challenges us to take the Gospel seriously. As such, it continues last week’s message: Deny Yourself, pick up your cross, and follow Christ. Why? Because the world has fallen, and we have fallen with it; and it takes energy […]
Homily – Christian vs. Yankee Values (Sunday of the Cross)
March 27, 2011 By
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 […]
