As we behold the lifting up of the Cross of Christ, I greet you all with the deep spiritual joy of this festal day on which the curse of the tree is healed by the Passion of the passionless God. ...
Today, we celebrate the third-day resurrection of Christ, whom we glorify as the Lord who is king and robed in majesty. We also continue to honor…
Today, on the day of the resurrection of our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ, we also honor our most venerable father Herman on the day of his glorification. And on…
My beloved children in the Lord – In the rather short reading from the Gospel of Saint Matthew appointed for today, we heard how, departing from a certain region, Jesus…
It is a good thing to sit down together at the end of a long day — and this has been a long and full day, beginning with the celebration of the Divine Liturgy, business meetings, instructional talks…
It is a joy to be with you this evening and to participate in the 2026 Assembly of the Archdiocese of Canada. It is hard to believe that three years have passed since I joined you in Québec…
According to the Gospel we have just heard, today is “the last day, that great day of the feast.” The work that was begun at the time…
Today Christ opens the eyes of a man born blind, and the blessedness, the happiness, of such a miraculous event seems self-evident. Yet the Pharisees react with hostility, and the formerly-blind man’s…
“He told me all that I ever did,” declares the Samaritan woman to her fellow residents of Sychar. All that she ever did – shouldn’t this be a source of shame and regret? After…
As we celebrate the Midfeast of Pentecost, we are reminded that the Paschal season is a movement. It is not simply a festive forty days after the Lenten fast, nor simply a length…