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Acquiring the Spiritual Clarity of the Samaritan Leper: Homily for the Twenty-ninth Sunday After Pentecost & Twelfth Sunday of Luke with Commemoration of Venerable Makarios the Great of Egypt, the Anchorite, in the Orthodox Church
If we want to open our darkened souls to the healing light of Christ, we must gain the spiritual clarity of the Samaritan leper. He was so focused on receiving the healing mercy of the Lord that he died to concern about what others thought or said about him. In order to become living epiphanies… Read more
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“The People Who Sat in Darkness Have Seen a Great Light”: Homily for the Sunday After Theophany (Epiphany) in the Orthodox Christian Church
As we celebrate Theophany in “the region and shadow of death,” let us focus mindfully on living each day as those who have died to sin and risen up into a new life holiness through the Lord Who has baptized by John in the Jordan for our salvation. Anything else is a distraction from embracing… Read more
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Homily for Theophany (Epiphany) in the Orthodox Church
At Epiphany, we celebrate that the Creator has become part of the creation in order to make it a new heaven and a new earth. At Theophany, we celebrate that no dimension of our life or world is intrinsically profane or cut off from sharing in the holiness of God. All things, physical and spiritual,… Read more
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Homily for the Sunday Before the Nativity of Christ in the Orthodox Church
As we prepare for Christmas, let us embrace the calling to hope in nothing and no one other than the God-Man Who is born to heal and fulfill all who bear the divine image and likeness. His human lineage shows that He came for people as conflicted, confused, and compromised as we are. They wanted… Read more
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Homily for the Sunday of the Forefathers (Ancestors) of Christ in the Orthodox Church
Apart from the mercy of the Savior, we would have no part in the great spiritual heritage of those who foreshadowed and foretold the coming of the Christ across the centuries before His birth. We must never, then, fall into the idolatry of thinking that serving the false gods of nationality, ethnicity, or political ideology… Read more
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“Woman, You Are Freed from Your Infirmity”: Homily for the Twenty-fourth Sunday After Pentecost & Tenth Sunday of Luke in the Orthodox Church
The Lord surely did not treat the woman in today’s reading as being undeserving of His mercy due to her disability, her sex, or any other human characteristic. Instead, He revealed her true identity as a beloved person, a daughter of Abraham, by enabling her to regain the basic human capability of standing up straight… Read more
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