Sermons & Homilies – Tagged "Acquisition of Virture"– Page 5 – Holy Cross Monastery

Dec 13, 2020

The All-Healing Remedy of the Love of God - A Sermon on the Healing of the Woman Bowed Together

Why have these stories been recorded? To grant us hope amidst our physical and spiritual struggles, weaknesses, passions, and sins. If our Merciful Lord sought out those who were afflicted without being directly asked, how much more will He come, in His own time, to us who seek Him out!

Sep 06, 2020

Let All Your Things Be Done With Charity - A Sermon for the 13th Sunday After Pentecost (2020)

Let us all overlook petty and earthly things that we may not lose the most priceless heavenly treasure of Christ God Himself, Who is Love and Affection within our hearts.

Aug 30, 2020

None Can Harm the One Who Does Not Harm Himself – A Homily on the 12th Sunday After Pentecost (2020)

What I undertake, St. John says, is to prove that no one of those who are wronged is wronged by another, but experiences this injury at his own hands.

Apr 12, 2020

Christ-Like Humility that Overcomes the Whole World - A Homily for Palm Sunday (2020)

How should we live? The question is presented today, on Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week, because despite how we have spent the whole of Lent, despite how we have lived our life up until now; knowing what we do about the world’s situation, and seeing the ease by which our whole country and the entire world can simply come undone - how should we live?

Apr 05, 2020

Repentance and the Glory of God - A Sermon for the Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt (2020)

What is the gate of repentance which leads to divine and eternal life in God? The awareness of our sinfulness before Him. Such an awareness of sin came to St. Mary whom all Orthodox Christians commemorate today as a lofty standard of true, life-transforming repentance. However, as we see from her life, an awareness of our sins is often brought about by a seeming misfortune, or impasse, or perplexity in our life.