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
His Eminence, The Most Reverend SABA, Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of North America
His Grace, The Right Reverend ANTHONY, Auxiliary Bishop, Diocese of Los Angeles and the West
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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?
9/23/18 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.
6/17/18 Seeking first the Kingdom of God and living a life
free of worries.
6/10/18 Feeding the soul
6/3/18 The cost of discipleship
5/27/18 Pentecost: the Great Invitation
5/20/18 Fr. George comments on the tragic shooting in Texas.
5/13/18 The lesson of the Blind Man: love, joy and thankfulness.
5/6/18 Photeini ("The One That Has the Light Inside") Only when we have light in us that we can see things the way they really are.
4/22/18 Who were the Myrrh-bearing Women and what is myrrh?
4/15/18 Thomas Sunday: Even when we are weak in our faith, Christ will not give up on us.
4/8/18 St. John Chrysostom's Paschal Homily
4/1/18 Palm Sunday and the meaning of "Hosanna!"
3/25/18 The meaning of one of the most powerful epistles St. Paul ever wrote.
3/18/18 The Fourth Sunday of Lent, where St. Patrick and St. John Climacus (St. John of the Ladder) collide.
3/11/18 Lindsay Buhler guides us through her journey to the Orthodox Church.
3/4/18 The teachings of St. Gregory Palamas and how he preserved the Orthodox Faith
2/25/18 A matter of grave importance: Preserving the Orthodox Faith
2/18/18 The Sunday of Forgiveness: What are our true treasures?
2/4/18 Childrens Sermon: the meaning of the Prodigal Son parable.
1/28/18 The Publican and the Pharisee: True prayer vs. false prayer
1/21/18 The lesson of Zacchaeus; where do we come up short in our daily lives?
1/14/18 True freedom is the freedom not to sin.
1/7/18 John the Baptist, the greatest man who ever lived.
HOMILIES 2017
12/31/17 Like John the Baptist we must stand firm in our Godly convictions despite what the rulers of our society may think.
