Sermons Archives — Page 2 of 27 — Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

Purification for Pascha

February 14, 2022 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

Why not just ask to enter into the Great Feast of Pascha, into the Kingdom of God, without having to go through this purification? Why won’t God just open the door and say, “Come on in” to everyone?

Ignored by God

February 8, 2022February 8, 2022 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

Real love for God is when we can begin to pray without expectations, without conditions that we lay down for God, willing to accept whatever God is going to give us. A true child of God will fall down at the Master’s feet and say, “Lord, help me.” It doesn’t matter what then happens.

The City Which is to Come

January 31, 2022 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

We don’t get caught up in the endless controversies and pursuits of this world. Let such dead ways of living bury themselves, because death is their aim. Here we have no lasting city. We seek the City which is to come.

The Lady at the Center of a Christian People

December 26, 2021December 24, 2021 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

A friend of mine likes to say that no nation or people is truly a Christian nation or people until it has a nationally-venerated icon or shrine of the Theotokos. This is not a doctrine of the Church, of course, but it is a cultural observation that rings true in a certain way. There is something about how a Christian society works that almost inevitably results in having a veneration for the Lord’s mother at the center.

Not By Heroism, Lest Anyone Should Boast

December 1, 2021December 3, 2021 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

Pagans did get some things right. Salvation does mean rescue from Hades, and it does mean being seated together with the Most High God. But they were wrong when they thought you could get it by impressing the gods.

Angels are the Original Saints

November 21, 2021November 19, 2021 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

In the baptism and chrismation that we are given, and in the Eucharist with which we are strengthened and divinized, we are given all that we need in order to become members of the hosts of heaven.

Asceticism, Suffering and the Justice of God

November 1, 2021 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

Faithfulness to justice, to righteousness, is what it means to be Christian and what is required to stay within the kingdom of God, both in this life and into the age to come.

The Ethic of the Sons of God

October 4, 2021 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

To be the sons of God, we do the works of the Father in heaven. If we instead do the works of the devil—which are sin—then he is our father instead. And if we do the works of the Father, then we become equal to the angels, the original “sons of God” who do His works.