April 25, 2021 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 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 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 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 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 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…
January 14, 2021 The Meaning of Circumcision in the Old Testament and the Circumcision of Christ Luke 2: 20-21 Colossians 2: 8-12 The full life of a Christian begins with the baptism. In the church of the Old Testament, circumcision…
January 11, 2021 Why Did the Son of God Appear in a Humbled State? In the ways of Divine Providence, the Lord God found a means of revealing Himself to people so that the fire of His Divinity…
January 8, 2021 The History of Everything from before the Beginning till after the End – Part Two Christ is born! Glorify him! Christ did not arrive “out of the clear blue”, without warning. There had been long centuries of preparation –…
January 6, 2021 Is Epiphany a Holiday of Both the Nativity and Baptism of Christ? When was our Lord’s birthday celebrated for the first time? In ancient times, the Nativity was celebrated on the same day as the Epiphany,…
December 7, 2020 The Feast of the Entrance and the Protoevangelium of James Much of the hymnography adorning our Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple causes the raising of eyebrows—talk about Mary being…
December 3, 2020 Did the Mother of God Enter the Temple? Confession of a Doubter A friend once told me about an article on one religious website on the feast of the Entrance of the Most Pure Theotokos into…
