Saturday, January 25, 2025

Repentance Requires Our Free Cooperation with the Merciful Grace of God: Homily for the Fifteenth Sunday of Luke (“Zacchaeus”) in the Orthodox Church

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  Luke 19:1-10   What does true repentance look like?   Whenever we are tempted to think that it has to do only with how we feel and not w...
Saturday, January 18, 2025

Acquiring the Spiritual Clarity of the Samaritan Leper: Homily for the Twenty-ninth Sunday After Pentecost & Twelfth Sunday of Luke with Commemoration of Venerable Makarios the Great of Egypt, the Anchorite in the Orthodox Church

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Colossians 3:4-11; Luke 17:12-19         During the season of Christmas, we celebrated the Nativity in the flesh of the Savior.  Born as tru...
Saturday, January 11, 2025

“The People Who Sat in Darkness Have Seen a Great Light”: Homily for the Sunday After Theophany (Epiphany) in the Orthodox Christian Church

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  Ephesians 4:7-13; Matthew 4:12-17           In this season we celebrate the great feast of Theophany, of Christ’s baptism when the voice o...
Monday, January 6, 2025

Homily for Theophany (Epiphany) in the Orthodox Church

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  Matthew 3:13-17; Titus 2:11-14; 3:4-7           Today we celebrate that Jesus Christ is truly the Son of God and One of  the Three Persons...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

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   As we conclude our preparation to welcome Christ at His Nativity, we must resist the temptatio...
Saturday, December 14, 2024

Homily for the Sunday of the Forefathers (Ancestors) of Christ in the Orthodox Church

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  Luke 14:16-24                  Even before the internet and cell phones, people struggled to remain focused on what was truly important....
Saturday, December 7, 2024

"Woman, You Are Freed from Your Infirmity": Homily for the Twenty-fourth Sunday After Pentecost & Tenth Sunday of Luke in the Orthodox Church

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  Ephesians 2:14-22; Luke 13:10-17                When Jesus Christ was teaching in a synagogue on the Sabbath, He saw a woman who was bent...