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The simple things in life – Sermon for Annunciation
O pure Maid, you eluded nature’s laws, conceiving God in ways past understanding. You evaded things proper to mothers in childbirth, even if by nature you were prone to change.[1] We are again in deep...
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Running our lives in circles
The miracle of healing of the ten lepers, is generally perceived as an exposition of the importance of gratitude in our lives. There is however another aspect I would like to stress today. The...
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Lent as transforming expectation
But we all, with our face having been unveiled, having beheld the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are being changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Lord Spirit. (2Co 3:18)...
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The Counter Culture Church – Sermon for the Sunday of St. John of the Ladder
We live in a world with blazing speed internet that renders TV, radio and newspapers obsolete, we have access to rapid couriers that can bring to our doors anything from around the world in 24 hours,...
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Credo ergo sum – I believe therefore I am
Last year there were rumors that the tomb of Jesus was found. The other day some claimed to have found the nails that were used to crucify Christ. More and more news like this surface today and,...
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Fasting for Freedom or Growing Wings for God
This article is not about Ghandi and the independence of India; is not about hunger strikes and the upholding of civil rights; but it is an attempt to restore to its former heights an overlooked tool...
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The Uncomfortable Church
On the fifth Thursday of Lent in the Orthodox Churches we chant the service of the Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete. It is a monumental work of hymnography with more than 250 odes, or verses, to...
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Seeing the truth through the blind man’s eyes
Say to those of a hasty heart, Be strong, fear not; behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the full dealing of God. He will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and...
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The Bond That Keeps the Bricks of the Our New Church Together
Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it, You shall...
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The First Sermon of Christ
Any classical public speaking training would tell the aspirant lecturer to always start with a little warm up for the audience, in order to get them engaged, then introduce the topic, present the topic...
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We remember and we honor because it matters
Sunday of Orthodoxy 2014 We all take Orthodoxy for granted and we forget all about Synods, Saints and Holy Fathers. We are mostly ignorant that torture, prison, exile, even death were things...
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The Icon of the Kingdom
Every year, in the first Sunday of Lent, we celebrate our Orthodox heritage. It is a wonderful festivity involving a touching procession with icons, lifted up high, around the church and ending in the...
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