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. ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 ...
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 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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Heb 6:13-20 Almost every kind of boat, large or small, has an anchor. When there is a wind or a tide or a current pulling the boat in the wrong direction, the...
Hebrews 4:14-5:6 Traveling west from my family home in the Great Lakes region to where I now live here amidst the mountains, it is always a comfort when, for...
Hebrews 1:10-2:3 “How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them...
Heb. 11:24-26 & 32-12:2 What an inspiring reading we heard today from the epistle of St Paul to the Hebrews. We heard of the struggles of the Old Testament...
Rom 13:11-14:4 “..now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at...
1Corinthians 8:8-9:2 “Meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither if we eat not, are we the worse. … But when you sin...
1 Corinthians 6:12-20 “All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the...
2 Tim 3:10-15 Today we begin the preparation for Great Lent with the readings from the Gospel about the Publican and the Pharisee. In this Gospel we find an ...
Luuke 19: 1-10 The purpose of the law and the prophets, that is the life of the Old Testament, was to show the Hebrew people how they should live so that they...
Matthew 4:12-17 Luke 18:35-43 When you are in a dark place or out at night, it is difficult to see clearly your surroundings. You see shapes and forms in the...
Mark 1:1-8; Luke 18:18-27 A few weeks ago, just before the feast of the Nativity of our Lord we observed how all of creation moved together, under the guidance...
Matt 2:13-23 On this day, the Sunday after the birth of Christ, we recall the Holy Righteous Ones, the kinsmen of the Lord, David the King, Joseph the ...
A Christmas sermon from Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco http://www.wadiocese.com/enews_comments.php?id=585_0_14_0_C Another Christmas sermon from Bishop...
Matt 1:1-25 As we approach the celebration of the feast of our Lord’s birth, we are reminded that the incarnation was not something that was suddenly or ...
