Sermons & Homilies
Today the light of the divine glory shines forth from the face of a man, the God-man Jesus Christ. Today is revealed the mystery of God hidden from before the ages, “God hath appeared in the flesh,” showing to us not only Who He is, but also who we are called to be: partakers of the divine nature, sons of God and co-heirs with Christ. The same glory with which He shines today on Mount Tabor He desires to shine forth from us, sinners though we are, in the Kingdom of His Father. This same glory we see shining now in the halos of all the saints whose icons surround us every day.
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The Apostles stand gazing into heaven upon the ascending Christ until He is no longer visible to the physical eyes; but the mind and heart of the Apostles is fully transfixed in an immaterial vision upon Him as He ascends beyond the earth, beyond the whole physical universe, and beyond all the ranks of heavenly angels, sitting down upon His divine throne with our human nature.
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Today is the triumphant entry of God our King into His rightful city, Jerusalem; today, is the prelude of that great hymn which will burst forth from the empty tomb of the Lord on Pascha night, filling all creation with light, glory and joy!
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Yesterday, Christ was born; today, He is baptized. Yesterday, God immersed Himself in our flesh; today, our flesh is immersed in the Most Holy Trinity. Yesterday, the Timeless Son of the Virgin-Father was begotten in time of the Virgin-Mother; today He gives birth to us as sons of God forever.
"On this day we celebrate an event in which, roughly 2000 years ago, two suns shone upon a mountain top in Palestine. The first sun was the created sun, part of the majesty of God’s created world. And the second sun was the noetic sun, the illumined Son of God, the Uncreated Light, the Son which was God, and which was with God before all things were made. This was the Light of Christ, piercing the darkness of the fallen world."
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