Today we have with us the miraculous Hawaii Iviron icon of the Mother of God. Today also we celebrate feasts of the Pochaev icon of the Mother of God and the...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Aug 12, 2012 11:49 pm
Matthew 17:14-23 Faith is the basis of our life. We have faith in many things – we have faith that the “laws of physics” will always apply, for example...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Aug 20, 2012 3:23 pm
Matthew 17:1-9 Our Lord took His three closest disciples, Peter, James and John and led them to the top of a mountain where He was transfigured before them and...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Aug 26, 2012 9:11 pm
On Tuesday, we will celebrate the Great Feast of the Dormition (death) of the Virgin Mary. Although the Virgin lived a perfect life without sinning, because...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Sep 3, 2012 2:28 pm
Often we hear in the scripture a particular story that catches our attention and influences our lives. Sometimes that story will stay with us and become a...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Sep 14, 2012 2:35 pm
Matthew 22:1-14 Last night and this morning both we witnessed the baptism of two new members of the Body of Christ. Like the guests in the parable who came to...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Sep 24, 2012 12:39 am
Matthew 22:35-46 It is fashionable today, especially in the business world, to talk about “multi-tasking” - that is to encourage people to develop the...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Sep 24, 2012 12:39 am
John 3:13-17 John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world…” This is one of the most oft quoted verses of the Bible. We see it everywhere: on billboards, on ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Oct 12, 2012 2:48 pm
Gal 2:16-21 “For if I build again the things which I destroyed…” Very often salvation is spoken of as something to be obtained, like a commodity or a...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Oct 21, 2012 8:22 pm
Luke 6:31-36 The Feast of the Protection of the Mother of God celebrates the day, over a thousand years ago, when St. Andrew, the Fool for Christ, and his ...
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Fr David Moser
priestdavid
Oct 21, 2012 8:22 pm
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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propoved@yahoogroups....
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 ...