Matthew 4:18-5:12 The beatitudes, which we not only heard read this morning but which we also sing every Sunday as a part of the Divine Liturgy, hold a place...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jun 13, 2010 8:10 pm
Matthew 6:22.33 In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit! Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in our daily lives we often find that ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jun 20, 2010 8:00 pm
Matthew 8:5-13 "Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea obey"....
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jul 6, 2010 3:55 pm
Romans 12:6-14 Every year around Thanksgiving there is a fundraiser in town for the food bank. Throughout the year, school children and other volunteers make...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jul 6, 2010 4:00 pm
Matthew 8:28-9:1 In this Gospel, we see two sides of the same coin. We see people who are held captive, enslaved, by their own sin. Coming into the country of...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jul 11, 2010 11:44 pm
Matthew 9:27-35 Two weeks ago we heard the Gospel of the two men possessed by demons who were delivered by Jesus Christ. This Gospel initiated a series of...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jul 18, 2010 7:36 pm
Matthew 14:14-22 In this miracle of the feeding of the 5000 our Lord gives us instruction about many things. This is one of the most important miracles of the ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jul 26, 2010 12:33 am
Matt 14:22-34 After the crowd of 5000 had been fed and then sent home, Jesus sent his disciples across the sea of Galilee in a boat while He remained behind to...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Aug 1, 2010 6:58 pm
St Seraphim, to whose memory our parish is dedicated, was primarily a man of prayer. This characteristic, in and of itself, is something that should stand as...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Aug 8, 2010 10:33 pm
Matthew 18:23-35 This parable instructs us in the meaning of the words that we pray every day. Each time that we say the “Our Father” we always ask God to ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Aug 15, 2010 9:30 pm
Matthew 19:16-26 The image of a camel passing through the eye of a needle is very vivid, even for those of us who have not seen a camel (outside of a zoo) or...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Aug 22, 2010 11:30 pm
Matthew 16:13-24 Our God is so merciful and loving to us. In this parable we see the care that He has taken to prepare a place for those who love Him in this ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Aug 29, 2010 10:45 pm
Matthew 22:1-14 There was a host who sought to provide a banquet for his friends. He invited them all to come and promised that there would be an abundance of...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Sep 6, 2010 12:37 am
Matthew 22:35-46 These two commandments, to love God and to love our neighbor encompass all of the law and the prophets. They sum up the whole process and ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Sep 12, 2010 6:53 pm
Matthew 25:14-30 The Apostle Paul wrote to the Church in Corinth, “We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Sep 19, 2010 10:15 pm
Matthew 15:21-28 Throughout His earthly life, our Lord was approached by many people coming to Him out of great need and seeking some help from Him as a last ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Sep 26, 2010 11:25 pm
John 3:13-17 Tomorrow we honor the Cross of our Lord on the day of its discovery by the Empress Helen. The Cross, in and of itself, is nothing, it is just two...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Oct 4, 2010 4:13 am
Mark 8:34-9:1 How confusing this must have been for the people who heard Jesus that day. He spoke to them about “taking up their cross”. In hindsight we...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Oct 17, 2010 11:34 pm
Luke 6:31-36 “Just as you would have men do to you - do to them the same.” This is the so called Golden Rule, the universal standard of good behavior. We ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Oct 28, 2010 3:42 pm
Luke 7:11-16 We encounter God in many ways in our lives. Sometimes it is because we have earnestly sought Him through crying out to Him in prayer or in the ...
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priestdavid
Nov 1, 2010 1:08 am
Luke 8:5-15 The season of the harvest is upon us. All around us the crops nurtured during the growing season are gathered from the fields and brought in. ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Nov 8, 2010 2:43 pm
Luke 16:19-31 We all like to spend money, somehow there seems to be some intrinsic joy in just going on a buying spree. For many there is the additional ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Nov 14, 2010 11:54 pm
Ephesians 4:1-6 We live in many different communities. We live in the community of our neighborhood, or in our city or region. We live in the community of our ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Nov 23, 2010 12:05 am
In the Church we celebrate many different kinds of feasts. Most important, of course, are the feasts of the Lord, the greatest of which is Pascha, the feast of...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Nov 28, 2010 11:30 pm
Luke 10:25-37 The parable of the Good Samaritan is a classic tale that teaches us how we may each put the Great Commandments to love God and to love our ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Dec 6, 2010 12:48 am
Luke 12:16-21 From the moment of our birth, we begin a journey through this life which inevitably leads to our death. There is no escaping that fact that it is...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Dec 13, 2010 2:13 am
1 Tim 1:15-17 & Luke 13:10-17 “This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Dec 19, 2010 11:03 pm
There are a few Christmas songs that refer to “Jolly Old St Nicholas…” or to St Nick “that jolly old elf”. These songs reflect the popular depiction...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Dec 27, 2010 1:51 am
Luke 14:16-24 God has prepared a great salvation for us. He,. Himself, will take on flesh and come to us so that we might come to Him and partake of His life....
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Jan 3, 2011 6:03 am
Matthew 1:1-25 As many of you know, I travel occasionally to San Francisco to visit our Holy Virgin Cathedral. The Cathedral is, of course, the home of our ...
