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True and False Prayer
Zaccheus was short of stature
The healing of the ten lepers
Repentance is poverty of spirit and meekness
1/5/20 Repentance is not a feeling but an attitude and action
HOMILIES 2019
12/29/19 Holy Innocents; Tragedy or Joy?
12/24/19 True Freedom Can Only Come From Humility
12/22/19 God will never abandon us
12/15/19 Parable of the Supper
12/8/19 Self-love is the most dangerous sickness of our age
12/1/19 Is real blindness physical or spiritual?
11/26/19 Is our real goal in life earthly or heavenly?
11/17/19 Saugus High School Tragedy-A reflection of the Spiritual emptiness of our age.
11/10/19 The Church is where we are healed and where we are saved.
11/3/19 The parable of Lazarus and the rich man: rethinking what is important in life.
10/27/19 Salvation comes through the Church and her Saints
10/20/19 Gaderene demoniac-The delusion of materialism
10/6/19 Do we truly believe in the Resurrection
9/29/19 How do we love our enemy ?
9/22/19 Every good thing we do comes from God
9/15/19 The way of the Cross is not the way of this world.
9/8/19 The Theotokos is "the beginning of our salvation."
9/1/19 Happy Ecclesiastical New Year!
8/25/19 A firm faith is contagious. Love, order, forgiveness, and unity triumph over confusion and division.
8/18/19 As Christians we rejoice because vicotry has already been obtained.
8/11/19 Transforming through symfonia and syngergia (symphony and synergy).
8/4/19 Transfiguration: A week when the impossible becomes possible.
7/28/19 How can we best serve the church?
7/21/19 What it means to commend our lives to Christ our God.
7/14/19 Is Christ the Lord of our lives?
7/7/19 We cannot serve two masters. What is our goal?
6/30/19 The harvest is plentiful, where are the laborers?
6/23/19 The Sunday of All Saints
6/16/19 Pentecost: The Rivers of living water.
6/9/19 We pray what we believe and we believe what we pray.
6/2/19 Sunday of the Blind Man: Dirt is good!
5/26/19 Sunday of the Samaritan Woman: We all have a purpose in life.
5/19/19 Physical and Spiritual Healing and the Sunday of the Paralytic.
5/12/19 Mother's Day and the Myrrh-bearing Women
5/5/19 Thomas Sunday: There is nothing new under the sun...except Jesus Christ.
4/28/19 Pascha: The Paschal Homily of St. John Chrysostom
4/21/19 Palm Sunday: The significance of the two donkeys as Christ entered Jerusalem.
4/14/19 The Sunday of St. Mary of Eqypt: Encountering God as St. Mary did in the desert.
4/7/19 The Sunday of St. John Climacus: Climbing the ladder through the Prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian.
3/31/19 The Sunday of the Cross: Denying our false self to discover our true self.
3/24/19 Sin: The terminal illness each of us carries within ourselves.
3/17/19 The Triumph of Orthodoxy
3/10/19 Great Lent: Begin the struggle and learn the true meaning of fasting
3/3/19 The Sunday of Judgment: An awesome and fearsome sight!
2/24/19 The Prodigal Son: Lessons in Time and Love
2/17/19 The Triodion: A Chance to renew who we are.
2/10/19 The Canaanite woman: Feeding our hunger
2/3/19 St. Simeon the Patron and Protector of our Children
1/27/19 Zaccheus tells us everthing about our salvation.
1/20/19 Is there anything worse than an unthankful child?
1/13/19 What is your New Year's Resolution?
1/6/19 Epiphany- the great renewal of human kind and of all creation.
HOMILIES 2018
12/16/18 The great banquet is our new life in Christ.
12/2/18 Childrens' Sermon: Who was St. Nicholas?.
11/25/18 Looking for answers in all the wrong places. The Kingdom of Heaven is right in front of us.
11/18/18 Let us live a life worthy of our calling.
11/11/18 The Good Samaritan and the Meaning of Life.
11/4/18 "The Gates" to the Kingdom of Heaven.
10/28/18 "Faith is Trusting Jesus, obeying His commandments, and loving Him."
10/21/18 "Who rules over our lives- Christ or our passions?" by Subdn. Steve Heffelfinger.
10/14/18 "The Church is One...There is only one Church".
10/7/18 Why do we use incense in the Church?
9/30/18 Love Your Enemies.
9/23/18 Repentance means to love God.
9/16/18 Looking at the Cross we see love.
9/9/18 The cross of our Lord before all else is "love"
9/2/18 The Church is the Wedding Feast of the Lamb
8/26/18 The Church is God's Vineyard
8/19/18 With God all things are possible.
8/12/18 Forgiveness is the key that opens the door to heaven.
8/5/18 Why I became Orthodox by Joshua Peterson.
7/29/18 The Christian Faith is one of victory and joy!
7/22/18 The five loaves and two fish: the significance of "breaking bread."
7/15/18 Baptized Christians have a new life; We must look, act, and think different from the world.
7/8/18 It is sin that paralyzes our souls
7/1/18 Refections on Acts 2:42 (prepared for the Oratocial Competition at the Parish Life Conference).
7/1/18 Love is the center of everything we do.
6/24/18 How to interact with those who have rejected the most basic moral principles of human existence.