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Being with Christ on the Cross - Sermon for Forgiveness Sunday

22 Feb 2026

Woe is me! No more can I endure the shame. I who was once king of all God’s creatures upon the earth have now become a prisoner, led astray by evil counsel. I, who was once clothed in the glory of immortality must now, as one condemned to die, wrap myself miserably...

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The Parable of the Prodigal Son

07 Feb 2026

The parable of the Prodigal Son is one of the most well known. Some of its expressions have passed into the ordinary, spoken language, while several illustrations and pictures relating to it are well known to us from childhood.

In the preceding two...

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The Parable of the Publican and the Pharisee

31 Jan 2026

Continuing to denounce His adversaries, especially the Pharisees, Christ utters a parable that supplements the preceding two - those of the lost sheep and the prodigal son. The following parable - of the publican and the Pharisee - is recorded in the eighteenth chapter of the...

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Sermon on the Gospel of the Sunday of Zacchaeus

22 Jan 2026

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. My beloved Christians, in today's Gospel we read about something which was a common occurrence in the latter years of the life of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
As we know, once our Lord was...

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The Sunday Before the Nativity

02 Jan 2026

Epistle Reading

By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; For he waited for the...

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The Parable of the Sower

26 Oct 2025

"Take heed then how you hear; for to him who has will more be given, and from him who has not, even what he thinks he has will be taken away. "(Luke 8: 18)

Saint Luke, like Saint...

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THE WIDOW OF NAIN

18 Oct 2025

The story of the Widow of Nain is one of the most powerful of the Gospel stories about Jesus. As he is about to enter a city called Nain Jesus meets some men carrying the corpse of a young man who has just died. He is told that he is the only son...

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Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost: the Miraculous Catch of Fish.

05 Oct 2025

The Sunday before last the Holy Church offered for our attention the parable about the talents. A talent is that strength which God gives to us for the fulfillment of His commandments of love for God and neighbor. Last Sunday...

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The Parable of the Talents

27 Sep 2025

In the times of the Gospel, a talent denoted a very large sum of money. A talent corresponded to sixty minas. A mina equaled a hundred dinarii. During the earthly life of the Saviour, an ordinary worker earned one dinarius a day.

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Getting to Know Our Mother