Heb 9:11-14 During Great Lent there are particular saints assigned to be remembered on the various Sundays. This week, of course, is St Mary of Egypt, last ...
Phil 4:4-9 Palm Sunday is the harbinger of Pascha – the celebration that leads into Holy Week. Before we enter into the intense, but short, struggle of Holy ...
Acts 6:1-7 The book of the Acts of the Apostles, from which we read during these Sundays during the Paschal season, is the history of the beginnings of the...
Acts 9:32-42 Since Pascha we have heard how the Apostles have been doing all those things that our Lord did when He was with them. The sick were healed, the...
John 4:5-42 When our Lord met this woman, their remarkable conversation began quite simply with a request for a drink of water, but it did not remain simple....
Acts 16:16-34 The Holy Apostle Paul and his companion Silas were teaching in the city of Philippi and a certain young slave girl who was possessed of a demon ...
Acts 20:16-18, 28-36 In the Gospel our Lord likens the Church to a flock of sheep of which He is the Great Shepherd. The Holy Fathers also use this idea,...
Acts 2:1-11 The descent of the Holy Spirit described to us in the reading from the Acts of the Apostles is depicted for us in the icon that we see right here...
Heb 11:33-12:2 What is it that makes a saint? What qualities define sainthood? Today we celebrate the memory of all the saints, known and unknown to us. Who...
Rom 2:10-2:16 In our lives as Orthodox Christians we regularly hear the Gospel read and we read it ourselves as well. We read spiritual books and hear homilies...
Romans 5:1-10 As a child, I remember a game called connect the dots. On a page there were a whole lot of numbered dots and if you were to take a pencil and ...
Romans 10:1-10 Consider the many flowers that we have around us. There are flowers in a multitude of colors and shapes and sizes. Just as one plant blooms and ...
Any group of people that is successful, whether it is a family or a corporation, or some other kind of group, has in it people with different strengths who use...
Romans 15:1-7 The key virtue, the one that unlocks all the other virtues, is humility. The fathers tell us that humility is the mother of all virtues, in that ...
1 Cor 1:10-18 Last week in his epistle to the Romans (15:1-7), the Apostle Paul gave us the prayer that we might, with one mouth and one heart, glorify God. ...
1 Cor 4:9-16 We have many heroes in our lives. There are the fictional heroes of books and film that exemplify the kinds of qualities that we want to have....
Matthew 18:23-35 One of the basic tenets of our way of life is that of the rights of the individual. The Declaration of Independence, the founding document of ...
1 Cor 15:1-11 Just two days ago we celebrated the feast of the dormition or death of the Mother of God. The services for that feast echo the services of ...
1 Cor 16:13-24 When we are saying goodbye to someone dear to us, very often that is the time that we try to say everything that we were unable to say before or...
2 Cor 1:21-2:4 It is beautiful to see a wedding. There, in the Church, are two people who are being joined and made one by the grace of God. This is a great ...
2 Corinthinans 4:6-15 In the Gospel for the Sunday after Theophany, we read of the prophecy of Isaiah which was fulfilled by Christ: “The people who sat in...
1 Cor 1:18-24 Symbols are very important for us; they operate as a kind of shorthand to denote our belonging to a group and to evoke the feelings of loyalty ...
Galatians 2:16-20 The story of Pinocchio, the puppet who desired to be a real boy, reveals to us the foolishness of seeking to live according to the law alone....
2Cor 9:6-11 Fall is the time of harvest – the time when we look over the past season of planting and growth and reap the fruit of that labor. Today in the ...
2 Cor 11:31-12:9 The Holy Apostle tells us today of the spiritual experiences of a certain man who was caught up in to the third heaven and saw and heard ...
Galatians 1:11-19 Our Lord Jesus Christ is the full and complete self revelation of God to man. In His incarnation is embodied the fullness of the Godhead. All...
Galatians 2:16-20 “A man is not justified by works of the law but by faith of Jesus Christ” If this statement of the Apostle is true (and it is), then why ...
Gal 6:11-18 Almost everywhere we look we can find some kind of “brand placement” in our environment. The logo of a particular product is often displayed ...
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