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ST. SIMEON ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH
28042 Ave. Stanford, Unit D, Santa Clarita, CA 91355
A Mission Church of the Diocese of Los Angeles and the West
Antiochian Christian Archdiocese of North America, Metropolitan SABA, Primate
HOMILIES 2024
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Homily 11-10-24, Children's Homily on the Good Samartian
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Homily 11-3-24, The World We Create For Ourselves Is A Dream, Not Reality
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Homily 10-27-24, Why We Give
00:00 / 13:49
Homily 10-26-24, Regarding St. Demetrios and Martyrdom
00:00 / 12:25
Homily 10-20-24, The Spiritual Reality of the World and the Church
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Homily 10-13-24, Teach That Faith That Someone Has Taught You
00:00 / 20:09
Homily 10-6-24, The Heart of the Orthodox Faith
00:00 / 21:13
Homily 9-29-24, Love and the Sickness of Sin
00:00 / 16:34
Homily 9-22-24, To Be Humble and Lowly of Heart
00:00 / 16:06
Homily 9-15-24, The Cross is the Tree of Eternal Life
00:00 / 15:36
Homily 9-8-24, On The Title of the Theotokos by Metropolitan Antonios
00:00 / 12:23
Homily 9-1-24, The Inner Life of the Church
00:00 / 17:54
Homily 8-25-24, To Quiet One's Heart
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Homily 8-20-24, the Tireless Love of God
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Homily 8-11-24, Love Fulfills All Commandments
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Homily 8-6-24, The Divine Light of the Transfiguration of the Lord
00:00 / 14:49
Homily 8-4-24, The Disease of the Soul: Envy
00:00 / 18:54
Homily 7-28-24, The Purpose is to Love God
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Homily 7-21-24, The Reverence of God
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Homily 7-15-24, The Nature of the Church
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Homily 7-7-24, The Plan and the Thirst for the Lord
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Homily 6-30-24, The Healing from the Love of God
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Homily 6-16-24, The Son of God
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Homily 6-9-24, Self-Opinion Leads to Hatred
00:00 / 21:08
Homily 6-2-24, The Children's Sermon on the Samaritan Woman
00:00 / 26:06
Homily 5-26-24, The Healing of Christ
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Homily 5-19-24, To Anoint the Body of the Lord Jesus
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Homily 5-12-24, The Peace the World Can't Give You
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Homily 4-27-24, Christ Who Lives In Us
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Homily 4-21-24, Empty Glory
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Homily 4-14-24, The Peoples around Christ
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Homily 4-07-24, To Conquer Death Through the Cross
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Homily 3-31-24, the Wisdom of God
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Homily 3-24-24, The Restoration of Icons
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Homily 3-17-24, Responsible for our Sins
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Homily 3-3-24, the Story of the Prodigal Son
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Homily 2-25-24, Regarding Humility and Pride
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Homily 2-18-24, the Children's Homily
00:00 / 15:24
Homily 2-11-24, Regarding Our Talents
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Homily 1-28-24, the Blind Man and the Spiritual Senses
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Homily 1-21-24, the Necessity to Give Thanks
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Homily 1-14-24, The Fire
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Homily 1-7-23 “Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite.”
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Homily 1-6-24 Our Baptism is the beginning of our life in our Lord Jesus
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HOMILIES 2023
Homily 12-31-23 Every day is a new beginning
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Homily 12-25-23, The Christmas HomilyFather George Ajalat
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Homily, The GeneologyFather George Ajalat
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Homily 12-24-23, The Mystery of God becoming ManFather George Ajalat
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Homily 12-17-23, The Faith that God Gave UsFather George Ajalat
00:00 / 19:42
Homily 12-10-23, the God of Love and CompassionFather George Ajalat
00:00 / 18:31
Homily 12-3-23, What Does it Mean to be Blind?Father George Ajalat
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Homily 11-26-23, To Shake Out of Our LethargyFather George Ajalat
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Homily 11-21-23, What (Who) is the Real Temple of GodFather George Ajalat
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Homily 11-19-23, Our God is the God of PeaceFather George Ajalat
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Homily 11-12-23, What Is There To Do to Inherit Eternal Life?Father George Ajalat
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Homily 11-8-23, The Love of God and the Angelic HostFather George Ajalat
00:00 / 08:44
Homily 11-5-23, The Rich Man and LazarusFather Joseph Corrigan
00:00 / 07:00
Homily 10-29-23, On the Topic of FearFather George Ajalat
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Homily 10-22-23, The Faith of Power and VictoryFather George Ajalat
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Homily 10-15-23, On the Topic of RevengeFather MIchael Laffoon
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Homily 9-24-23, The Source of our Spiritual LifeFather George Ajalat
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Homily 9-10-23, The History of our LiturgyFather George Ajalat
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Homily 9-8-23, The Nativity of TheotokosFather George Ajalat
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Homily 9-3-23, The Church is the Vineyard that the Lord PlantedFather George Ajalat
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Homily 8-27-23, Who is the master of our life?Father George Ajalat
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Homily 8-20-23, Forgivness is the fruit of repentance!Father George Ajalat
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Homily 8-13-23, How do we Cast out Demons?Father George Ajalat
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Homily 8-6-23, Transfiguration of our Lord Jesus ChristFather George Ajalat
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Homily 7-30-23, Let's participate in God's miracles!Subdeacon Seraphim
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Homily 7-23-23, Our Faith, Our JoyFather George Ajalat
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Homily 7_16_23 Fathers 4th Ecumenical Council
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Homily 7_9_23 St. Pancratios/Gaderene Demoniac
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Homily 6_18_23 True Fatherhood-Subdn. Mark Nassief
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Homily 6-11-23 Sunday of All SaintsDn. Steve Heffelfinger
00:00 / 10:08
Homily 6-4-23 Pentecost- We have the power!Fr. George Ajalat
00:00 / 11:36
Homily 5-21-23, With this Sign thou Shalt Conquer!Father George Ajalat
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Homily 5-14-23, Mother's DayFather George Ajalat
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Homily 5-7-23, Do you want to be healed?Father George
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Homily 4-30-23, Myrrh-Bearing Women are Models for MankindFather George Ajalat
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Homily 4-23-23, New Sunday, New Creation!Father George
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Paschal Homily 4-16-23Father George
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Homily 4-9-23, And Jesus WeptSdn Seraphim
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Homily 4-2-23, St Mary of Egypt and Repentance Fr. Thomas Hernandez
00:00 / 06:48
Homily 3-26-23, Lord I believe; help my unbelief!Dr. Karen Sibert
00:00 / 07:40
Homily 3-19-23, Before thy Cross we bow down in worship, O Master!Father George
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Homily 3-12-23, St Gregory PalamasFather George
00:00 / 16:41
Homily 3-5-23, Let's listen to the sweet voice of our Lord!Father George
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Homily 2-26-23, Letter from our newly elected MetropolitanFather George
00:00 / 15:41
Homily 2-12-23, What if the prodigal son never left the pigpen?Father Andrew Andrews
00:00 / 10:39
Homily 2-5-23, Self-Love is Enmity with GodFather George Ajalat
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Homily 1-29-23, It is my honor to die for my Lord!Father George Ajalat
00:00 / 19:08
Homily 1-22-23, Today salvation has come to this house!Deacon Steven
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Homily 1-15-23, Where are the nine?Father George
00:00 / 18:02
Homily 1-8-23, The Power of BaptismFather George
00:00 / 19:55
Homily 1-1-23, Circumcision of heart is christian baptismFather George
00:00 / 15:49
HOMILIES 2022
Homily 12-25-22 The Pagan Magi were the ones who received ChristFather George
00:00 / 16:08
Homily 12-18-22, He is coming to give us back our Royal ImageFather George
00:00 / 19:21
Homily 12-11-22, Why was anger given to us by God?Father George
00:00 / 16:06
Homily 12-4-22, How we enter into liturgy by remembering our baptism.Father George
00:00 / 13:31
Homily 11-27-22, What does it take to touch heaven during divine liturgy?Father George
00:00 / 20:22
Homily 11-20-22, Let us begin with prayers and end with love!!Father George
00:00 / 17:18
Homily 11-13-22, "Glory to God for all things!"Father George
00:00 / 15:52
Homily 11-6-22, What is the secret of Christian life?Father George
00:00 / 13:27
Homily 10-30-22, Who are we? The rich man, Lazarus or both?Sdn Seraphim
00:00 / 13:50
Homily 10-23-22 For those who love God, we have nothing to fear!Father George
00:00 / 14:19
Homily 10-16-22 Works, the Very Fabric of FaithFather George
00:00 / 11:03
Homily 10-9-22 What does it mean to be truly alive?Father George
00:00 / 15:27
Homily 10-2-22, Loving our enemies opens to us the gates to paradiseFather George
00:00 / 12:02
Homily 9-25-22 Let down your nets for a catch
00:00 / 11:46
Homily 9-18-22 What The Church is NOT
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Homily 8-28-22 Dn. Steven Forgivness is a spiritual law
00:00 / 09:34
Homily 8-21-22“O faithless and perverse generation, how long am I to be with you?"
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Homily 8-14-22 Pre-Feast of the Dormition
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Homily 8-7-22 Sdn Seraphim “We have only five loaves here and two fish.”
00:00 / 16:12
Homily 7-24-21 Healing of Paralytic and Spiritual Paralysis
00:00 / 16:55
Homily 7-17-22 Blessed is the man whose delight is in the law of the Lord
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Homily 7-3-22 Joy of the Christian Faith
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Homily 6-19-22 Father Minas, Who are the Saints?
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Homily 6-12-22 Father Minas, Gifts of The Holy Spirit
00:00 / 15:34
Homily 6-5-22 The Orthodox Faith
00:00 / 17:09
Homily 5-29-22, The deep spiritual poverty of our age
00:00 / 20:37
Homily 5_22_22 Worship is a thirst for God
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Homily 5-15-22, We pray for our soul to wake up and Christ will give us life
00:00 / 12:04
Homily 5-8-22, Fr. Finley, Courage, generosity, compassion and fearlessness
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Homily 5-1-22 A new Sunday and a new people
00:00 / 16:59
Homily 4-17-22, Rejoice! The Lord Is at hand
00:00 / 10:52
Homily 4-16-22 Lazarus Saturday, Death has no power over us
00:00 / 07:34
Homily 4-10-22, We suffer together with Christ in Love and we are raised in Glory
00:00 / 12:15
Homily 4-3-22, "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief"
00:00 / 13:53
Homily 3_20_22 To know God is to have his light in us
00:00 / 11:00
Orthros Homily 3_20_22 The Old Testament cannot be understood without the New Testament
00:00 / 05:53
Homily 3_6_22 Sunday of Forgiveness
00:00 / 04:24
Homily 2_27_24 Sunday of The Last Judgment
00:00 / 15:29
Homily 2_26_22 Soul Saturday 1
00:00 / 10:45
2022 Who is the God Whom we worship
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Homily 2_13_22 Christ is the Physician and the Church is the Hospital
00:00 / 11:41
Heading 1
Homily 2_6_22 Demons can only be cast out by the power of Christ
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Homily 1_30_22 Without Hierarchy there is Anarchy
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Homily 1_23_22 The mystery of the universe can only be known through prayer
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Homily 1_16_22 Jesus has healed us of our Leprosy
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Homily 1_2_22 Humanism is not by any means humane
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HOMILIES 2021
Homily 12_26_21 Envy is the root of sin
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Homily 12_25_21 To be a Christian means to give thanks
00:00 / 10:54
Homily 12 19 2021 Jesse Roach Orthodoxy is the Fullness of the Christian Faith
00:00 / 11:42
12 12 21 Homily Second Coming Near
00:00 / 17:29
Homily 12_5_21 Sin causes us to be bent-over
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Homily 11_28_21 What does it mean to call someone Good
00:00 / 18:13
Homily 11_21_21 Virgin as Temple-the place where true prayer exists
00:00 / 16:41
Homily 11_14_21 Good Samaritan, Eternal life begins now
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Homily 11_7_21 Faith is understanding both the material and spiritual worlds
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Homily 10/24/21 We as Christians are conquerors
00:00 / 11:47
HOMILIES 2020
Fr. George 3 15 20 (2)
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Fr. George 2 9 2020
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True and False Prayer
Subdn. Mark Nassief1/26/20
00:00 / 08:24
Zaccheus was short of stature
Fr. Minas Sarchizian1/19/20
00:00 / 25:00
The healing of the ten lepers
Fr. George Ajalat1/12/20
00:00 / 13:51
Repentance is poverty of spirit and meekness
Fr. George Ajalat1/5/20
00:00 / 07:47
1/5/20 Repentance is not a feeling but an attitude and action
HOMILIES 2019
Fr. George Ajalat12/29/19
00:00 / 17:06
12/29/19 Holy Innocents; Tragedy or Joy?
Fr. George Ajalat12/24/19
00:00 / 09:31
12/24/19 True Freedom Can Only Come From Humility
Fr. George Ajalat12/22/19
00:00 / 10:23
12/22/19 God will never abandon us
Subdn. Seraphim Gilmartin12/15/19
00:00 / 14:12
12/15/19 Parable of the Supper
Fr. George Ajalat
00:00 / 16:30
12/8/19 Self-love is the most dangerous sickness of our age
Fr. George Ajalat
00:00 / 13:31
12/1/19 Is real blindness physical or spiritual?
Subdn. Steve Heffelfinger
00:00 / 08:04
11/26/19 Is our real goal in life earthly or heavenly?
Fr. George Ajalat
00:00 / 17:42
11/17/19 Saugus High School Tragedy-A reflection of the Spiritual emptiness of our age.
Fr. George Ajalat
00:00 / 19:05
11/10/19 The Church is where we are healed and where we are saved.
Subdn. Mark Nassief
00:00 / 11:22
11/3/19 The parable of Lazarus and the rich man: rethinking what is important in life.
Fr. George Ajalat (2)
00:00 / 16:41
10/27/19 Salvation comes through the Church and her Saints
Fr. George Ajalat
00:00 / 16:38
10/20/19 Gaderene demoniac-The delusion of materialism
Fr. George Ajalat
00:00 / 11:24
10/6/19 Do we truly believe in the Resurrection
Subdn. Steven Heffelfinger
00:00 / 07:29
9/29/19 How do we love our enemy ?
Fr. George Ajalat
00:00 / 11:12
9/22/19 Every good thing we do comes from God
Fr. George Ajalat
00:00 / 11:09
9/15/19 The way of the Cross is not the way of this world.
Fr. George Ajalat
00:00 / 11:51
9/8/19 The Theotokos is "the beginning of our salvation."
Subdn. Mark Nassief
00:00 / 10:23
9/1/19 Happy Ecclesiastical New Year!
Fr. George Ajalat
00:00 / 17:42
8/25/19 A firm faith is contagious. Love, order, forgiveness, and unity triumph over confusion and division.
Fr. George Ajalat
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8/18/19 As Christians we rejoice because vicotry has already been obtained.
Fr. John Reimann
00:00 / 25:41
8/11/19 Transforming through symfonia and syngergia (symphony and synergy).
Subdn. Mark Nassief
00:00 / 07:19
8/4/19 Transfiguration: A week when the impossible becomes possible.
Fr. Ambrose Liston
00:00 / 14:16
7/28/19 How can we best serve the church?
Subdn. Stephen Heffelfinger
00:00 / 06:50
7/21/19 What it means to commend our lives to Christ our God.
Fr. George Ajalat
00:00 / 14:20
7/14/19 Is Christ the Lord of our lives?
Fr. George Ajalat
00:00 / 09:41
7/7/19 We cannot serve two masters. What is our goal?
Fr. Constantine Nasr
00:00 / 16:08
6/30/19 The harvest is plentiful, where are the laborers?
Dn. Andrew Andrews
00:00 / 11:57
6/23/19 The Sunday of All Saints
Fr. John Finley
00:00 / 17:11
6/16/19 Pentecost: The Rivers of living water.
Fr. George Ajalat6-9-19
00:00 / 08:13
6/9/19 We pray what we believe and we believe what we pray.
Fr. George Ajalat - 6
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6/2/19 Sunday of the Blind Man: Dirt is good!
Fr. George Ajalat - 5/26/19
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5/26/19 Sunday of the Samaritan Woman: We all have a purpose in life.
Subdn. Mark Nassief - 5/19/19
00:00 / 00:00
5/19/19 Physical and Spiritual Healing and the Sunday of the Paralytic.
Fr. George Ajalat - 5/12/19
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5/12/19 Mother's Day and the Myrrh-bearing Women
Unknown Track - Unknown Artist
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5/5/19 Thomas Sunday: There is nothing new under the sun...except Jesus Christ.
Fr. George Ajalat - 4/298/19
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4/28/19 Pascha: The Paschal Homily of St. John Chrysostom
Fr. George Ajalat - 4/21/19
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4/21/19 Palm Sunday: The significance of the two donkeys as Christ entered Jerusalem.
Fr. George Ajalat - 4/14/19
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4/14/19 The Sunday of St. Mary of Eqypt: Encountering God as St. Mary did in the desert.
Subdn. Mark Nassief - 4/7/19
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4/7/19 The Sunday of St. John Climacus: Climbing the ladder through the Prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian.
Fr. George Ajalat - 3/31/19
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3/31/19 The Sunday of the Cross: Denying our false self to discover our true self.
Fr. George Ajalat - 3/24/19
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3/24/19 Sin: The terminal illness each of us carries within ourselves.
Subdn. Stephen Heffelfinger - 3/17/19
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3/17/19 The Triumph of Orthodoxy
Fr. George Ajalat - 3/10/19
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3/10/19 Great Lent: Begin the struggle and learn the true meaning of fasting
Fr. George Ajalat - 3/3/19
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3/3/19 The Sunday of Judgment: An awesome and fearsome sight!
Subdn. Mark Nassief - 2/24/19
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2/24/19 The Prodigal Son: Lessons in Time and Love
Fr. George Ajalat - 2/17/19
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2/17/19 The Triodion: A Chance to renew who we are.
Fr. Andrew Honore - 2/10/19
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2/10/19 The Canaanite woman: Feeding our hunger
Subdn. Mark Nassief - 2/3/19
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2/3/19 St. Simeon the Patron and Protector of our Children
Fr. George Ajalat - 1/27/19
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1/27/19 Zaccheus tells us everthing about our salvation.
Fr. George Ajalat - 1/20/19
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1/20/19 Is there anything worse than an unthankful child?
Subdn. Mark Nassief - 1/13/19
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1/13/19 What is your New Year's Resolution?
Fr. George Ajalat - 1/6/19
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1/6/19 Epiphany- the great renewal of human kind and of all creation.
HOMILIES 2018
Fr. George Ajalat - 12/16/18
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12/16/18 The great banquet is our new life in Christ.
Subdn. Mark Nassief - 12/2/18
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12/2/18 Childrens' Sermon: Who was St. Nicholas?.
Fr. George Ajalat - 11/25/18
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11/25/18 Looking for answers in all the wrong places. The Kingdom of Heaven is right in front of us.
Fr. George Ajalat - 11/18/18
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11/18/18 Let us live a life worthy of our calling.
Subdn. Mark Nassief - 11/11/2018
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11/11/18 The Good Samaritan and the Meaning of Life.
Fr George Ajalat - 11/4/2018
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11/4/18 "The Gates" to the Kingdom of Heaven.
Fr George Ajalat - 10/28/18
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10/28/18 "Faith is Trusting Jesus, obeying His commandments, and loving Him."
Fr. George Ajalat - 10/21/18
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10/21/18 "Who rules over our lives- Christ or our passions?" by Subdn. Steve Heffelfinger.
Fr. George Ajalat - 10/14/18
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10/14/18 "The Church is One...There is only one Church".
Fr. George Ajalat - 10/7/18
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10/7/18 Why do we use incense in the Church?
Fr. George Ajalat - 9/30/18
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9/30/18 Love Your Enemies.
Fr. George Ajalat - 9/23/18
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9/23/18 Repentance means to love God.
Subdn. Mark Nassief - 9/16/18
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9/16/18 Looking at the Cross we see love.
Fr. George Ajalat - 9/9/18
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9/9/18 The cross of our Lord before all else is "love"
Fr. George Ajalat - 9/2/18
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9/2/18 The Church is the Wedding Feast of the Lamb
Fr. George Ajalat - 8/26/18
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8/26/18 The Church is God's Vineyard
Subdn. Mark Nassief - 8/19/18
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8/19/18 With God all things are possible.
Fr. George Ajalat - 8/12/18
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8/12/18 Forgiveness is the key that opens the door to heaven.
Joshua Peterson - 8/5/18
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8/5/18 Why I became Orthodox by Joshua Peterson.
Fr. George Ajalat - 7/29/18
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7/29/18 The Christian Faith is one of victory and joy!
Subdn. Mark Nassief - 7/22/18
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7/22/18 The five loaves and two fish: the significance of "breaking bread."
Fr. George Ajalat - 7/15/18
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7/15/18 Baptized Christians have a new life; We must look, act, and think different from the world.
Fr. George Ajalat - 7/8/18
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7/8/18 It is sin that paralyzes our souls
Samantha Nassief Oratorical Speech - 7/1/18
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7/1/18 Refections on Acts 2:42 (prepared for the Oratocial Competition at the Parish Life Conference).
Fr. George Ajalat - 7/1/18
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7/1/18 Love is the center of everything we do.
Fr. George Ajalat - 6/24/18
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6/24/18 How to interact with those who have rejected the most basic moral principles of human existence.
Subdn. Mark Nassief - 6/17/18