Sermons & Homilies – Tagged "The Church"– Page 2 – Holy Cross Monastery

Dec 05, 2021

The Centrality of the Church in the Christian Life - A Homily on the Entry of the Mother of God into the Temple (2021)

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.

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.