On holy Pentecost, this last and great feast, the Gospel that was previously preached to small crowds in Galilee and Judea is now preached to Parthians and Pamphylians, Libyans and Elamites, Cretans and Cappadocians, Medes…
Your Eminences, Very Reverend and Reverence Fathers, Venerable Monastics, and all you faithful pilgrims, beloved in Christ the Lord: With joy I welcome all of you to the…
In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Joyous feast of the Ascension of Christ! In today’s Gospel, the Lord tell us, his disciples…
The holy fathers of the First Ecumenical Council are likened to the three-hundred and eighteen trained men of his house whom Abraham led out on a mission to rescue his nephew Lot…
“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God; believe also in me.” These words, from the Lord’s farewell discourse, were read at Divine Liturgy this morning. ...
“Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw him go into heaven.” So…
Christ is risen! Indeed he is risen! Leaving the Paschal feast behind can be a source of sadness, but we must recall the words of the Lord which he told us, his disciples, at the supper…
Today, the pharisees’ narrow dogmatism (“We are disciples of Moses”) is confronted with the experiential truth, the manifest reality, of the Lordship of Jesus Christ. The blind…
The name of Saint Photine, or Svetlana, is connected with light: phos (Greek) or svet (Slavic). She came to Jacob’s Well for ordinary, earthly water, but she encountered Christ who is the…