Sunday, January 29, 2017

How Strangers and Foreigners Become God's Holy Temple: Homily for the Sunday of the Canaanite Woman in the Orthodox Church

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2 Corinthians 6:16-7:1; Matthew 15:21-28 It is easy to fall into the trap of looking only at the surface of the challenges that we fac...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

Two Paths to the Kingdom: Homily on Zacchaeus and the Apostle Timothy in the Orthodox Church

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1 Timothy 4:9-15; Luke 19:1-10 One of the worst mistakes that we can make in life is to insist that everyone be just the same.  Part...
Sunday, January 15, 2017

What We Can Learn from Two Ascetics and One Grateful Samaritan: Homily on St. Paul of Thebes and St. John the Hut-Dweller for the 29th Sunday After Pentecost and the 12th Sunday of Luke in the Orthodox Church

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Colossians 3:4-11; Luke 17:12-19             You can learn a lot about a person by asking them who their heroes are.  The people we ...
Sunday, January 8, 2017

The Creation Fulfilled and Restored: Homily for the Sunday After Theophany (Epiphany) in the Orthodox Church

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Ephesians. 4:7-13; Matthew 4:12-17 Some people think of religion as a way of escaping the problems of life in the “real world.” They m...
Sunday, January 1, 2017

Purifying the Heart: Homily for the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ in the Orthodox Church

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            Colossians 2:8-12; Luke  2:20-21, 40-52         The great mystery of the Son of God becoming a human being shines b...
Sunday, December 25, 2016

The Good News of Christmas: Christ is Born! Glorify Him!

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Christ is Born!  Glorify Him!           The glorious feast of Christmas is finally here, and what a mysterious blessing it is.  Fo...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

The Scandalous Good News of Christmas: Homily for the Sunday before the Nativity of Christ in the Orthodox Church

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Hebrews 11:9-10, 32-40; Matthew 1:1-25             Some things are so familiar to us that we no longer take them seriously.  We can...