(John 12:1-8) A foretaste of the new life Between Great Lent which finished the day before yesterday on Friday, and Holy Week which begins tomorrow night, […]
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5th Sunday of the Fast—St. Mary of Egypt
(Mark 10:32-45) God spoke in particular to St. Mary of Egypt We Christians fall far short. In the Day of Judgement the Lord will say to […]
4th Sunday of Great Lent (of St. John Climacus)
O Souls, come into communion! Today we live in big cities and huge high-rises, and yet no one knows each other, no one has communion with […]
2nd Sunday of the fast. Saint Gregory Palamas
(Mark. 2, 1-12) The second Sunday of Great Lent, we could easily say, is a second Sunday of Orthodoxy, a Sunday of Orhodox practice. And it is not by […]
1st Sunday of the fast. Sunday of Orthodoxy
(John. 1, 44-52) Orthodoxy is Christ Orthodoxy isn’t a philosophic system or religion that forces us to suffer hardships, to be disciplined, or that has a list […]
Cheesefare Sunday
Return to God Great Lent is a forty-day period for us to return to God. Due to our sins, we find ourselves outside of paradise. Realizing this fact we seek […]
Sunday of the Prodigal Son
And with our sins, even though we are Christians! Theword ‘prodigal’ (ἄσωτος)comesfromtheverb ‘tosave’ (σώζω) and its negation, as is indicated by the alpha (α). After the fall, man finds […]
Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee
We must take the Christian life seriously Today, my brothers and sisters, as we enter into the holy period of Triodion, I would like to highlight how […]
Sunday of the Canaanite Woman
(Matt.15, 21-28) Humility holds the door of God’s mercy open In today’s gospel reading, we find a woman in great need: her daughter is horribly demon-possessed. In […]
Riches are the obstacle – Zaccheus Sunday (Luke 15)
It was as though Zaccheus and Christhad a secret communion. As though a secret code was working between them. Immediately Zaccheus, without forgetting the great condescension that the Lords howed him (ashe […]