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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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 ...
In the Sundays before the Nativity, we recalled all the forefathers, both of the flesh and of the spirit, who lead up to Christ. Today we celebrate the memory...
Matthew 4:12-17 The Gospel today closes a chapter, as it were, in the life of Christ. The next thing we read is how He begins his public teaching by calling ...
A little more than a thousand years ago, St Vladimir brought the Orthodox Christian faith to Russia and baptized the Russian nation. From that time on Russia...
Luke 18:10-14 When I was raising my children, it was very important to me to find for them good examples to follow. It was important to show them someone who ...
Luke 15:11-32 As we move towards Great Lent, we have laid out for us a reminder of whole process of our salvation. First the repentance of Zachaeus, then the...
Matt 25:31-46 As we approach Great Lent, we are shown many things in the Gospel that remind us of the great truths about ourselves, and God and His plan for ...
Matthew 6:14-21 In the city of Rome, during the time of the empire, there was a great arena called the Coliseum – the ruins of which still stand today and ...
On this first Sunday of Great Lent we are reminded of the great struggles that the Church encountered in preserving and defining untainted and unchanged the...
Mark 2:1-12 In the parable today, we heard how the friends of the paralytic brought him to Christ and finding that the way was blocked they persisted and ...
The Hebrew nation, after fleeing the captivity of Egypt, wandered for 40 years in the wilderness before entering the Promised Land. In a general way this is...
Mark 9:17-31 We were reminded last week of the Cross, the symbol of Christ’s victory over sin, death and the devil. By the Cross we were encouraged to ...
Mark 8:32-50 Earlier this week, when we sang the service of the Great Canon of St Andrew, we heard read as a part of the service the entire life of St Mary of...
John 12:1-18 Today is a day of great joy and rejoicing, for today, our Lord Jesus Christ enters into the city of Jerusalem to the praises of the people ...
John 20:19-31 This is the day of Resurrection, let us rejoice! We heard, in the Gospel today, how the tradition came to be of gathering on this day for ...
Acts 6:1-7 Mark 15:43-16:8 We need each other. No one walks the path of salvation by himself, but we proceed all together as brothers and sisters in Christ....
John 5:1-15 Acts 9:32-42 The Myrrhbearing women came to the tomb of Christ out of compassion. Expecting to find a dead body, their compassion was tinged with...
John 4:5-42 “Come and see a man who told me all that I have ever done” What a frightening thing – that there would be someone who could tell each of us...
