Click Here to Listen/DownloadAll Pawlo, All the TimeIn 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 … [Continue reading]
20110420 Sounds of Lent and Holy Week
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 … [Continue reading]
Homily – Don’t Define God (Palm Sunday)
Philippians 4: 4-9St. John 12: 1-18For 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 … [Continue reading]
Course on Orthodoxy, Death, and Eternal Life
Orthodoxy and Eternal LifeAdult EducationSt. Michael Ukrainian Orthodox ChurchSchedule: · 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 … [Continue reading]
Homily – Sunday of Saint Mary of Egypt
Hebrews 9:11-14 St. Mark 10:32-45Almost 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 … [Continue reading]
Homily – The Sunday of the Ladder
Hebrews 6:13-20St. Mark 9:17-31The 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? … [Continue reading]
Homily – Christian vs. Yankee Values (Sunday of the Cross)
Hebrews 4:14-5:6St. Mark 8:34-9:1Click 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 … [Continue reading]
Homily – A Vision of Heaven… and Hell (Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas)
Hebrews 1:10 - 2:3St. Mark 2:1-12Introduction: 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 … [Continue reading]
Homily – Triumph of Orthodoxy (GO TEAM!!!)
Hebrews 11:24-26,32 - 12:2St. John 1: 43-51Go 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 … [Continue reading]
An Epistle from our Bishops (Cheesefare Sunday)
Click here for a podcast that includes this homily!!!Romans 13:11-14:4St. Matthew 6: 14-21LENTEN EPISTLE OF THE PERMANENT CONFERENCE OF UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX BISHOPS BEYOND THE BORDERS OF UKRAINEBeloved in the Lord, Reverend Clergy and Monastics, dear … [Continue reading]

