Luke 6:31-36 Last week we heard in the Gospel the necessity of giving up our own life in order that we may acquire the Life of Christ in exchange. Acquiring ...
Mark8:34-9:1 This past week we marked together the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. The Cross is the symbol of our victory and stands at the heart of our...
John 3:13-17 This Sunday stands in the midst of two feasts; the Birth of the Mother of God is just passed and the Exaltation of the Cross is approaching. In ...
Moscow, August 21, Interfax - The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church instituted a holiday to honour Christians who lived on the islands of Great Britain...
Matthew 22:35-46 When God created mankind and placed him in the garden of paradise, He gave us two commandments by which to live, to love God and to love our ...
Last week we celebrated the feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord. This great miracle was given to the Apostles and to us as an encouragement in the midst...
Matthew 17:1-9 Jesus, knowing that the final days of His earthly life were drawing near wanted to give His disciples some kind of encouragement, something that...
Matthew 18:23-35 Everything that we have, is given to us by God. Of ourselves, we have nothing, not even the air that we breath, the water that we drink or...
Matthew 17:14-23 Every one of us has faced, or will face a crisis of faith. We come to a point where we are confronted with the question, “Do I believe?”...
Matt 14:22-34 1Cor 3:9-17 After the miraculous feeding of the 5000 – which we heard last week – our Lord dismissed the crowd and went up onto a mountaintop...
Matt 14:14-22 When they were with Jesus, the apostles were constantly learning from everything He said and did. As the God/man Himself, He taught them about ...
Matthew 9:27-35 Over the past few weeks, we have heard the accounts of many healings by our Lord. Each one has many lessons that are instructive to us not only...
Matt 9:1-8 When Sir Edmund Hilary summitted Mt Everest, he was not alone, but was accompanied by his Sherpa guide and until that last effort they had both been...
We live in a time when evil reigns in much of the world. The struggle with the "Power of Evil" permeates the Bible. and, throughout the centuries it has been...
Matthew 8:5-13 When it rains, water falls to earth irrespective of the kind of ground upon which it falls. The rain falls on the hills as well as the valleys, ...
Matt 6:22-33 In this Gospel we find a very important truth. No man, says our Lord, can serve two masters, either he will hate the one and love the other or he...
Matt 4:18-23 “Follow me” This is the call of our Lord Jesus Christ to the apostles as He began His earthly work. Andrew and Peter and James and John, who...
Matthew 10:32-33, 37-38, 19:27-30 Last week we celebrated the “birthday” of the Church and this week we remember all those who make up the Church – the...
Today, dear brothers and sisters, we celebrate a birthday. We celebrate the birthday of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. It is on this day, with the...
John 9:1-38 & Luke 5:1-11 On the sea of Galilee, there were many fishermen who earned their livelihood by going out to fish every day. On one particular day a ...
John 4:5-42 & John 15:17-16:2 The Great Martyr, Trophybearer and Wonderworker George today gives us an example of the supreme love of Jesus Christ. St George...
We have just heard the account of the healing of a paralytic at the pool of Bethesda. There are many accounts in the Gospels of how Jesus healed those who...
Mark 15:43-16:8 Today, the Gospel narrative paints for us a most tender and beautiful picture. Our Lord, having given up His life on the Cross, is given over ...
John 20:19-31 My brothers and sisters, see how great is the love that our Lord Jesus Christ has for us. In these brief paragraphs, the Evangelist recounts for...
Phil 4:4-9; John 12:1-18 The news of the miracle that we celebrated yesterday, the raising of Lazarus from the dead, spread quickly throughout the environs of ...
Heb 9;11-14 God created man as the crown and glory of the whole of His creation. God looked at man and declared that His creature was good – and God loved ...
Mark 9:17-31 Just this past week, we have crossed the halfway mark of Great Lent. It is about this time that many people begin to notice that they are tired ...
Before us today is the Cross; the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. We honor the Cross today because it is the symbol of our victory - the victory of life over...
Heb 1:10-2:3 Mark 2:1-12 Last week, we began the Sundays of Lent by remembering the Triumph of Orthodoxy – that is the restoration of the veneration of icons...
John 1:43-51 At the beginning of His ministry and public work, our Lord first called to Himself those who would become His disciples and the Holy Apostles. ...
