Sermons & Homilies
![Are We Blind Also? - A Sermon on the Sunday of the Blind Man (2024)](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/are-we-blind-also-a-sermon-on-the-sunday-of-the-blind-man-2024-948978.jpg?v=1717973214)
![The Mystery of Sacrifice - A Sermon on the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple (2023)](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/the-mystery-of-sacrifice-a-sermon-on-the-entry-of-the-theotokos-into-the-temple-2023-297537.jpg?v=1701756555)
![How To Be Resurrected - A Sermon on the 20th Sunday After Pentecost (2023)](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/how-to-be-resurrected-a-sermon-on-the-20th-sunday-after-pentecost-2023-847514.png?v=1698027948)
So let us always remember that for us too, our resurrection — both bodily and spiritual — is not given to us for our own sake, but for the sake of those around us: those who love us, those who pray for us, and even for the sake of those who hate us and do us wrong. Above all, our resurrection is given to us for the sake of our own mother, the Holy Church of Christ, so that we can truly become Her faithful children.
![The Words of Our Mother - A Sermon for the Annunciation (2023)](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/the-words-of-our-mother-a-sermon-for-the-annunciation-2023-190540.jpg?v=1680913910)
![Finding the Father's House - A Sermon for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son (2016)](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/sermon-for-the-sunday-of-the-prodigal-son-2016-934746.jpg?v=1676603431)
All of us are born into this world with a deep and insatiable longing for Paradise. Perhaps we are not even aware of it. Most of us bury it beneath the mire of our passions; we try to satisfy this pure and holy desire with the trinkets and amusements of this fallen world. We become as ships tossed to and fro, as wanderers amid the wasteland of this life, consumed by a gnawing hunger for we know not what. But no matter how we might try to slake our endless, unquenchable desire, we all — like the Prodigal Sons that we are — always end up finding ourselves enslaved to our passions, perishing with hunger, and very, very far away from home.