Sermons & Homilies – Tagged "Path to Salvation"– Page 4 – Holy Cross Monastery

Mar 21, 2021

"Our Fathers Have Told Us" - A Sermon on the Sunday of Orthodoxy (2021)

The Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy has everything to do with Great Lent, it has everything to do with repentance, and it by all means must come first out of all the Sundays – because without it all the other Sundays become impossible. This Sunday we celebrate the absolutely necessary foundation of all asceticism, of all repentance, and of all Christianity: humble and trusting obedience to our fathers in Christ.

Sep 27, 2020

The Power of the Image of the Cross - A Homily on the Feast of the Exaltation (2020)

All that is good in the world is imbued with power from the Holy Spirit, and this is significantly true of images, the greatest of which is the Cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Sep 13, 2020

The Chosen Few - A Homily on the Parable of the Marriage Feast (2020)

It is up to us to preserve our wedding garment spotless for the feast. The chosen few mentioned by the Lord are in a sense chosen of themselves.

Aug 19, 2020

Beholding the Glory of God - A Sermon for Transfiguration (2020)

The error of St. Peter was not at all his desire to forsake everything earthly for the sake of the glory of God. His error was in forgetting that the glory of God can be acquired nowhere other than on the Cross of Christ.

May 10, 2020

Illness and Sin - A Homily on the Sunday of the Paralytic (2020)

Sickness and health have a lot to do with the condition we find ourselves in, physically and spiritually. How often today do we hear that this is not a valid reason for man to explain sickness and health?