Hebrews 13:7-16 Our Lord Jesus Christ did not leave us alone to figure out the Christian life for ourselves. He, Himself, is our first and best example. In ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Oct 29, 2012 2:47 pm
Luke 8:5-15 & Gal 2:16-20 Later this week comes the worldly festival of “Halloween”. Many of the customs associated with this festival come from the depths...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Nov 5, 2012 5:26 am
Luke 16:19-31 In this parable we see a glimpse of the life beyond the grave. As always, since this life is beyond our ability to comprehend, this glimpse is...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Nov 11, 2012 8:45 pm
Gal 5:22-6:2 Very often we speak of our spiritual fathers and mothers, referring to those who have gone before us in the faith and who help us as we also ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Nov 19, 2012 3:07 pm
Eph 2:14-22 In the Church of the Holy Sepulcher there is a stone in the center of the nave that is referred to as the “navel of the world”. It is so called...
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Dec 2, 2012 12:07 am
File : read only.doc Description : read only reminder...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Dec 5, 2012 4:03 am
Eph 5:9-19 Luke 12:16-21 The Christmas season is upon us. Thanksgiving is past, the Black Friday sales have come and gone. Now we settle in for a season of...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Dec 10, 2012 2:18 am
Ephesians 6:10-17 The Holy Apostle Paul uses the image of going into a battle to describe how we as Christians should live our lives. Indeed the daily struggle...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Dec 16, 2012 8:34 pm
Col. 1:12-18 This past week we experienced another national tragedy. A young man killed his parents and then went into a school where he began indiscriminately...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Dec 23, 2012 2:44 pm
Just this past week the world was supposed to have ended – at least according to a popular interpretation of the meaning of an ancient Mayan calendar. The...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jan 7, 2013 5:33 am
Luke 14:16-24 Today we begin our preparation for the feast of the Lord’s Nativity in earnest. We begin to look at and appreciate the preparation that God, ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jan 7, 2013 5:33 am
Luke 2:1-20 The first witnesses to the birth of Jesus Christ, other than the righteous Joseph and the virgin Mary were shepherds who were watching their flocks...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jan 13, 2013 9:14 pm
Today, we celebrate the memory of the three Righteous Ones; David the King, Joseph the Betrothed and James the Brother of the Lord. What is it that binds these...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jan 20, 2013 7:19 pm
John 1:29-34 The Holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John – this is the great saint that we remember today. His title tells us much about the reasons that ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Feb 3, 2013 7:50 pm
St Maximos the Confessor, whose memory we celebrate today, lived during the first half of the 7th century. At this time, the monophysite heresy had just been...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Feb 3, 2013 7:50 pm
Luke 18:18-27 Col 3:12-16 In the life of the Equal to the Apostles, St Nino the Enlightener of Georgia, we see the words of our Lord lived out. St Nino was the...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Feb 10, 2013 10:12 pm
The new martyrs and confessors of Russia stand today for us as a bright beacon of the necessity of maintaining a bold and unwavering faith in Christ in every...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Feb 17, 2013 7:16 pm
The cycle of the Sunday services revolves around Pascha each year. The theme of the Sunday readings starts over each year when we begin to prepare for Pascha,...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Feb 24, 2013 8:08 pm
When a person undertakes a big project, he does not begin right away but spends some time in preparation, making a plan, gathering materials, organizing his...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Mar 3, 2013 3:00 pm
Luke 15:11-32 These preparatory Sundays before Lent help us to identify and understand the tools that we will need as we enter our Lenten journey in a couple ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Mar 11, 2013 2:10 pm
Once a year, before we enter Great Lent, we get this same “wake up call”. We are reminded of the final and great judgment which we will all face. But this...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Mar 19, 2013 1:29 pm
A couple of weeks ago, we heard the parable of the prodigal son and were reminded that like the prodigal, we are exiles from our Father’s house. We also...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Mar 24, 2013 10:27 pm
We all have expectations of what things should be like before we actually experience the reality of what things are like. Sometimes reality far exceeds our...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Mar 31, 2013 6:37 pm
Last week we began the Sundays of Great Lent with the recognition of the triumph of the Orthodox Faith over the heresies that have (and continue to) assail it....
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Apr 8, 2013 2:19 pm
There are those who say that religions exist because of some psychological need that human beings have to find God. We need to relate to something larger than...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Apr 14, 2013 11:24 pm
Mark 9:17-31 There are three things, my brethren, by which Faith stands firm, devotion remains constant, and virtue endures. They are prayer, fasting and...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Apr 29, 2013 11:26 pm
John 12:1-18 Today we celebrate the feast of the Triumphal Entry of our Lord into Jerusalem. Last night at the Vigil service we all received blessed branches...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Apr 29, 2013 11:26 pm
This is the last Sunday of Great Lent. Next weekend we begin Holy Week with the raising of Lazarus and Palm Sunday. Today, we are given the life of St Mary of...
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David
priestdavid
May 12, 2013 7:53 pm
Acts 5:12-20 “They were all of one accord…” This is how the Acts of the Apostles describes the nature of the Church during the time immediately after ...
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David
priestdavid
May 21, 2013 4:09 am
Acts 6:1-7 Today we remember the Holy Myrrh-bearing women who, on the day the Resurrection, came to the tomb and discovered that our Lord Jesus Christ was no...