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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Homily – The Ontology of Holiness (Sunday after Theophany)
January 23, 2011 By
The Jordan turned back!” The dragons and assorted wickedness in the Jordan River could no exist in the same space as the source of holiness. The water was purified and transformed by God’s presence. Ephesians 4: 7-13 St. Matthew 4: 12-17 Review: Ontology of Beauty. Designed to provide a deeper appreciation for our faith and to […]
Homily – The Sacramental Ontology of Beauty
January 16, 2011 By
One of the things that leads truly rational, open-minded people to reject pure-materialism and atheism is their superficial and patently absurd explanation of the many blessings that flow into creation from her uncreated Creator. These include beauty, morality, and love. Today Fr. Anthony focuses on the sacramental ontology of beauty. 2 Timothy 4: 5-8 St. Mark […]
Homily – The Nativity of Our Lord
January 9, 2011 By
A Nativity Homily Christos Rojhdayetsya! Slavite Yeho! Christ is Born! Glorify Him! Let us celebrate the Incarnation of our Lord! As St. John Christostom says in his Nativity homily (SJC-NH); “Bethlehem this day resembles heaven” The Sun of Righteousness lays in a manger. We hear less the cattle lowing, than the shepherds proclaiming in full-voice […]
