August 19, 2021 83 0 About the Kingdom of Heaven. Transfiguration Matthew 17: 1-9 2 Pet. 1: 10-19 The Lord spoke much about the Kingdom of Heaven. In His first sermon He said that it…
June 22, 2021 64 0 About the “Little Ones”, the Wrongdoers and Those Making Requests Matthew 18: 10–20 The first day of the Church’s existence on earth has passed. Yesterday the Holy Spirit descended on the Apostles communicating to…
June 10, 2021 65 0 Luke’s Alternative Versions of the Timing of the Ascension in the Writings of Apostle Luke — Can We Make Sense of Them? Some of us may find it unbelievable, but in his writings, the Evangelist Luke appears to portray the Ascension of our Lord as an…
May 2, 2021 351 0 The Fatalism of Pascha Behind the cry of “Christ is Risen” lies the inevitable fact that each one of us will also rise. But then what? On the…
April 25, 2021 87 0 Palm Sunday: Where are You in the Crowd? Come away with me; let us leave our world and travel back together to the first Palm Sunday in the first century. Stepping out…
April 7, 2021 348 0 A Few Niceties of the Feast of the Annunciation Today is the great feast of the Annunciation of Our Most Holy Lady. With her famous “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord,”…
April 7, 2021 60 1 The Annunciation St. Ignatius of Antioch, martyred in Rome in about the year 107, wrote that along with the death of the Lord, the virginity of…
March 22, 2021 88 0 An Icon Means Testimony This Sunday is called “The Triumph of Orthodoxy.” On this day the last major heresy was condemned by the Seventh Ecumenical Council. By that…
February 15, 2021 76 0 The Gates of Death Today’s feast has many meanings, many aspects, and even many names. It is sometimes called the Meeting of the Lord, sometimes the Purification of the…
January 19, 2021 203 0 Sermon before Consecration of the Waters on the Epiphany Day of St John Maximovitch “The heavens were opened, and the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form, like a dove” on Christ, as He was standing in the Jordan…