Sermons & Homilies
![The Struggles, the Joy, the Reward - A Homily for the Sunday of Orthodoxy (2024)](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/the-struggles-the-joy-the-reward-a-homily-for-the-sunday-of-orthodoxy-2024-672311.jpg?v=1713167300)
Lent is the recalling to Paradise of those who have been cast out; it proclaims the truth to those deceived by the devil; and it announces sight to the blind, guidance to the lost, a haven for the storm-tossed; it is the announcement of life in Christ to those dead in sin, a life in a world that kills the soul.
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![The Eternally Present Moment - Anamnesis and the Holy Fathers of the Six Ecumenical Councils (2023)](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/the-eternally-present-moment-anamnesis-and-the-holy-fathers-of-the-six-ecumenical-councils-2023-478844.jpg?v=1690900086)
Anamnesis is a term which describes how past events are brought into the present moment; however, it is more than remembrance or recollection. In effect, it is the removal of the historical aspect of an event or events which in turn makes all of time (historical and future) an eternally present moment.
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![The Centrality of the Church in the Christian Life - A Homily on the Entry of the Mother of God into the Temple (2021)](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/the-centrality-of-the-church-in-the-christian-life-a-homily-on-the-entry-of-the-mother-of-god-into-the-temple-2021-986907.jpg?v=1660676836)
There is no substitute for the Church and no other way to draw close to God, which equals the Church. And it is here, in the Church, into the Holy of Holies, to which the Mother of God was brought to live and to learn, to be fed by angels and to be taught by God.
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!["Our Fathers Have Told Us" - A Sermon on the Sunday of Orthodoxy (2021)](http://www.holycross.org/cdn/shop/articles/our-fathers-have-told-us-a-sermon-on-the-sunday-of-orthodoxy-2021-450590.jpg?v=1660676957)
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.
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