Category: Father Andrew’s Desk

The Gospel lesson of the Demoniac and the pigs is a true shining explanation of reality;  of what is really going on all around us. There is a battle being Read more…

Today’s Gospel starts out saying “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your Read more…

Glory to Jesus Christ! Today is the second Sunday after Pentecost, and also the Sunday of all the Saints of North America. Today all of the more than 250 million Read more…

With the feast! Tomorrow starts the Apostles fast and lasts until June 29, 4 weeks this year, so do enjoy some feasting today. Look around at all the saints on Read more…

Today is the great feast of Pentecost! Today we once again invoke the Holy Spirit by praying “O Heavenly King…” At the start of every Liturgy we begin with this Read more…

This is the Sunday of our great and venerable Fathers in Christ of the 1st Ecumenical Council. These 318 bishops from every part of the Christian world gathered in the Read more…

Christ is Risen!!! In today’s gospel, Christ gives sight to the man born completely blind, demonstrating conclusively – once again – that He is God by fulfilling one of the Read more…

Christ is Risen! We have passed the half-way point in our journey from Pascha to Pentecost, the mid-feast was on Wednesday and so soon we will be praying “O Heavenly Read more…

Today we celebrate Christ raising the paralytic at the pool by the Sheep Gate. The sheep gate was the deep pool by the Jewish temple, surrounded by 5 sides, where Read more…

Christ is Risen! The Myrrhbearing women – those who had faithfully followed Jesus right to the foot of the cross, even when the other apostles had scattered and were hiding Read more…