Sermons & Homilies

The Apostle Peter – His Great & Imperfect Love, His Active & Little Faith - Homily on the 9th Sunday after Pentecost (2025)

Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends, but there remains a gradient of lesser loves, such as feeding the poor or clothing the naked, but are we not often loveless and complacent? Similarly, even if a man has such extremely small faith as the size of a mustard seed, he will be able to move mountains, and yet greater faith will accomplish greater deeds, but at times, are we not so faithless and numb? As we make our way down the road to the Kingdom of Heaven, our virtues and vices collide and vacillate within ourselves, making us confused about the state of our own soul and causing us to misunderstand others.

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Walking on Water - Homily on the 9th Sunday after Pentecost (2024)
Today the Church celebrates the memory of St. Maximos the Confessor. St. Maximos is called the confessor because he was persecuted and tortured for proclaiming the Orthodox faith of Christ’s two wills—one divine and one human.  He preached against the heresy that taught that Christ had only one will. We will see how crucial the Church’s teaching on Christ’s two wills really is.
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The Grace of Faith - Homily on Thomas Sunday (2024)
We have just finished the super-abundant festivities of Bright Week, where every day is Pascha and now, while it is still Paschatide for another month, we turn the dial down a little bit. Thomas Sunday is a good time to reflect on the nature of faith and doubt because all of us at one point or another in our life will run up against doubts. 
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