Homily – The Requirements of Eternal Life 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 (Epistle) St. Matthew 19:16-26 “How must I live to enjoy eternal life?” Let’s be honest, this is not the kind of question people ask Christ or His Church much anymore. And it’s not because people don’t care about life after death. Based on the […]
Homily – The Hypocrisy of Defending Bad Habits and Rules
December 13, 2015 By
Homily – The Hypocrisy of Defending Bad Habits and RulesSt. Luke 13: 10-17 This Gospel lesson is profound, teaching us many things about the nature of healing, hypocrisy, and thanksgiving. Today I would like to focus on three of the things that it teaches us. One: We Really Should Come to Church The first has […]
Homily Notes: 27th Sunday after Pentecost
December 6, 2015 By
Epistle. Ephesians 6:10-17. Summary: There is evil battling against us. God gives us protection – put on the full armor of God!Gospel. St. Luke 12:16-21. Summary: Get outside your comfort zone and use your gifts to the glory of God. Three points: First Point: Know Your Enemy. This is a difficult world full of very […]
Homily on Unity: How to Fix the World
November 22, 2015 By
Ephesians 4:1-6. I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, […]
The Holodomor, Lazarus, and the Rich Man
November 9, 2015 By
Holodomor (dedication and blessing of the Holodomor Memorial in DC). Background info: the Holodomor (i.e. murder by starvation) was an intentional policy of the USSR under Stalin. In 1932-33, the Soviet regime killed upwards of ten million people (the number is disputed, but no one doubts that it was several million) through the forced acquisition of […]
Homily Notes: Tending the Garden of our Souls
November 1, 2015 By
November 1st; Tone 5, The 22nd Sunday after PentecostSt. Luke 8:5-15: The Gospel of the SowerGalatians 6:11-18: Boasting on nothing but the Cross “Have you rejected Satan and all his works and all his pomp and all his pride? Have you rejected Satan and all his works and all his pomp and all his pride? Have […]
Homily Notes: The Widow of Nain (Tears, Childolatry, and the Resurrection)
October 25, 2015 By
Homily Notes: St. Luke 7: 11-16 (The Raising of the Nain Widow’s Son) Warm-up. The Holy Fathers of the Ecumenical Councils and the revelation of the Harmony of God. The ContextScriptural Context: Because the Lord, while not even present, had healed the centurion’s servant, H now performs another even more remarkable miracle. He does this […]
Homily Notes: Giving the Gift of Your Patience
October 18, 2015 By
Homily Notes: St. Luke 6: 31-36 And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit […]
Homily Notes: On the Proper Response to Meeting God
October 11, 2015 By
2 Corinthians 11:2, 5-6. I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a one was caught up to the third heaven. Of such a one I will boast; yet of myself I will not […]
