Tag: Sunday Sermon

Last week I deviated from my prepared text to speak about how bad single mindedness is in the Church.  Not single-mindedness in the sense that we all work toget...

As I have mentioned to you in the past, the entirety of the Christian Gospel is based upon love, love of God and love of each other.  We have a duty, as Christi...

I have always enjoyed reading Saint Paul.  He has a way of getting right to the heart of the matter without mincing his words.  He tells it like it is, which in...

Outside of the Gospels, if I had to choose my favorite book of the Bible I would choose the letter of St. James.  A few years back for Bible Study we spent a gr...

I am often amazed at how fast news travels, good new or bad, news travels very quickly.  It is said that there exists the “Orthodox Grape Vine” and if you want ...

“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.” Matthew 5:14 The Gospel passage that we heard this morning is part of a much larger ...

Arriving in my email each day is an email from the Massachusetts Historical Society with a little story about something that happened on that particular day in ...

We talk a lot about Communion; after all, communion is central to what we do as Orthodox.  At each Divine Liturgy we come into communion with the living God whe...

One characteristic of our Byzantine Spirituality is that of light.  Light is all around us.  We have candles on the altar, candles that illumine the faces on th...

All during the period after Easter we read from the Book of Acts.  The book of Acts tells the story of the formation of the early church and the ministry of St....