15th Sun after Pent. Matt.22:35-46; Love of God
God is love. Everything to do with God is love. Today we hear Christ distill all the commandments into two great commandments. “Love your God with all your heart, soul Read more…
The dash between the dates
My mother died recently. My sisters and I ordered the marker and I was confronted with the dash between the dates, the dash in place of 84 years of living. Read more…
St. Silas Orthodox Prison Fellowship Society Collection
St. Silas Orthodox Prison Fellowship Society Collection On Sunday, June 24, 2018, we will be accepting offerings for the St. Silas Orthodox Prison Fellowship Society. This is a mission of Read more…
13th Sun. after Pentecost, Wicked Vinedressers: Matt. 21: 33-42
In today’s gospel we hear Christ telling a well-known parable to the chief priests and Elders of the Jews. Well known to the Jewish leaders because they knew their scriptures, Read more…
12th Sunday after Pent. Gosp. Matt.19: 16-26 “Avarice”
Last week we heard a gospel lesson about the great danger of not practicing forgiveness, today we deal with another great danger, that of avarice/greed/love of money. Right from the Read more…
11th Sun. after Pent. Matt.18: 23-35 “Forgiveness x 777777…”
11th Sun. after Pent. Matt.18: 23-35 “Forgiveness x 777777…” With the feast! In August we end the Church year and are blessed to have three major feast days: The Transfiguration Read more…
The Gospel according to me
Recently I was asked to take a survey. What I found interesting was not so much the topic of the survey, but rather the questions asking what would influence my Read more…
9th Sun. after Pent. Matthew 14:22-34; Salvation in the storm
Glory to Jesus Christ! Today we pick up immediately where we left off last week. The 5000 have been filled, and having had their physical hunger satisfied they conclude that Read more…
8th Sunday after Pentecost Matthew 14: 14-22
Today’s Gospel from Matthew 14 tells us about Christ feeding the multitudes – 5000 men plus the women and children, – and we know that there must have been more Read more…
7th Sunday after Pent. Gosp. Matt.9:27-35; Epist. Rom.15:1-7
Today is the 7th Sunday after Pentecost and we celebrate the Fathers of the first 6th Ecumenical councils. Who Christ is, His full and complete humanity, and full and complete Read more…