Category: Sermons
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Your Cross Is Not a Fate: How Did We Turn the Cross into a Tragedy?
“God does not distribute crosses to hang people on them, and the message of the Gospel is not the glorification of pain. Popular thought has turned the God of life into a tormentor who sends calamities and illnesses under the name of the cross! The cross is not an imposed fate; rather, it is a…
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Service
Some see that service is limited to the priest alone, as the servant of the entire parish, or that it is confined to the parish council together with the priest. And although the great organizational role falls upon the council, and the priest represents an essential axis in this service, the letter of the Apostle…
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“Beseech That Your Servants Be Written in the Book of Life”
How do we understand what we are heading towards, that is, the Passover? How do we understand that we are going in our course to the table where “the fatted calf, so that none departs hungry,” as Saint John Chrysostom says? And what is the connection of food to death and victory? Are they symbols?…
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The Resurrection Is Our Passage to the Father
All of us will remain in perpetual search for this homeland, and we may lose the way as the ancient people lost it, who believed that God wanted to give them a land to dwell in, whereas God wanted to make of Himself the homeland of the new man.
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The Wicked Servant
The Gospel does not demand of us that we receive the one who wronged us with open arms and overflowing love, ignoring our wounds and our human feelings; rather it asks of us what is deeper and purer: that we purify our hearts of the poisons of resentment, hatred, and the desire for revenge, and…
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The Sunday of Saint Gregory 2026
After we met Jesus last week and asked Him: “Where do You dwell, O Lord?” and wished to follow Him, this Sunday comes for us to begin discipleship at His hands. But discipleship with Jesus means changing our thinking, changing our minds, and also changing our standards and values, changing our view of everything. Discipleship…
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The Parable of Those Invited to the Wedding Feast 2026
The striking thing in this parable is that the invitation Jesus recounts is an invitation to a wedding and not an invitation to the king’s table, to show you that the gain in this invitation is the king himself — that is, Jesus — and not what the king gives. Thus the invitation itself becomes…
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The Sunday of Orthodoxy 2026
The first Sunday of the fast is the Sunday of Orthodoxy. Even though the prevailing meaning here is that it is the Sunday of the triumph of Orthodoxy, the uprightness of faith, and the restoration of the icons, it certainly never means a triumph in the sense that we know. The first Sunday of the…
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Grant Me the Beloved Homeland
The question that Christianity asked is not: what will we find there? But rather: whom will we find? This is the essential question that concerns all of life. This answer is bound to our life here and now; it touches us in our present and our thinking, our repentance and our prayer; this is the…
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The Rich Man and the Commandment
And the Gospel of the judgment takes us to understand that the commandment does not save us. For Jesus did not reward those who did not kill, did not steal, and did not commit adultery, nor did He say to the righteous: “Come into My Father’s kingdom, because you did not kill and did not…