Saturday, May 23, 2015

American Christianity Declines as the Martyrs of the Middle East Bear Powerful Witness to Christ: Homily for the Sunday After the Ascension

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                     A recent survey of Americans about religion is getting a lot of attention, especially because it shows that fewer ...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Opening the Eyes of our Souls to the Light of the Resurrection: Homily for the Sunday of the Blind Man in the Orthodox Church

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                          Probably all of us have the ability to know at a glance whether something looks right in some area of our wor...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

The Power of Conversation with Enemies and Strangers: Homily for the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman in the Orthodox Church

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Christ is Risen!                        The world today has more than a little in common with the time and place in which Jesus Christ...
Sunday, May 3, 2015

Ignore the Critics and Rise Up with Christ: Homily for the Sunday of the Paralytic in the Orthodox Church

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Christ is Risen!             On this fourth Sunday of the season of Pascha, we remember Jesus Christ’s healing of someone who must hav...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

Humble Service and Beholding the Resurrection: Homily for the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women, Pious Joseph of Arimathea, and Righteous Nicodemus

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Christ is Risen!             Sometimes gaining knowledge requires more than than sitting around and thinking; sometimes we actually ha...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

The Risen Lord Is Truly With Us! Homily for Thomas Sunday in the Orthodox Church

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Acts 5:12-20; St. John 20:19-31 Christ is Risen! On this Sunday of St. Thomas, we have only begun our celebration of Pascha, of ou...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

We Must Enter into Christ's Death In Order to Rise with Him: A Homily Near the End of Great Lent in the Orthodox Church

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          We go to great lengths to insulate ourselves from the realities of suffering and death.  Consequently, people who experience pro...
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