... of the Blind Man, June 5, 2016 Rev. Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick Acts 16:16-34; ... in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to ... alliance did not foresee where it would lead. In our Gospel lesson for today, the sixth Sunday of Pascha, we read about the healing ...
... of the Samaritan Woman, May 29, 2016 Acts 11:19-30; John 4:5-42 Rev. Fr. Andrew ... the change of the world in mind that we come today to this Gospel of the Samaritan Woman, the Woman at the Well. Jesus has come to this ... of water, and He meets this woman here. She does not know it yet, but her whole world is about to change. This woman is a ...
... of the Last Judgment, March 6, 2016 1 Corinthians 8:8-9:2; Matthew 25:31-46 Rev. ... not just talking about the world out there who do not know Christ. I am talking about right here, right in our Orthodox Church, ... is the Sunday of the Last Judgment, because we read this Gospel today. Of the various images that we have of God, the one we may ...
... of the Publican and the Pharisee, February 21, 2016 2 Timothy 3:10-15; Luke ... talk about two failures at prayer, depicted for us in the Gospel reading from Luke 18. The Sunday on which we read the Gospel of the ... That is, he is a failure who is praying. Now, everyone knows the Publican is a failure. Heâs got a bad reputation. Tax collectors ...
... before the Theophany of Christ, January 3, 2016 2 Timothy 4:5-8; Mark 1:1-8 Rev. Fr. ... with the patterns of Orthodox liturgical life, you know that this is nothing terribly unusual. We love to layer things on and ... worth noting here that, while Matthew and Luke begin their Gospels with the birth of Jesus, the beginning of the Gospel of Mark, which we ...
... before the Nativity, December 20, 2015 Hebrews 11:9-10, 32-40; Matthew 1:1-15 Rev. ... Claus kneeling down at the manger in Bethlehem. And you know what I think about all that? Itâs mostly just noise. Itâs mostly ... talk about Christmas. Why? Itâs because of what the Gospel is actually about. The Gospel is the declaration of the coming of a new ...
... Luke 10:25-37 Rev. Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. ... This is probably one of the most beloved and well-known passages in Scripture, and it even enjoys some fame outside of Church ... on giving together with the message of this beautiful Gospel. A lawyer approaches Jesus and wants to know what it takes to have ...
... of the Apostle and Evangelist Luke, October 18, 2015 Colossians 4:5-11, 14-18; ... those names we often hear in our services, but we may not know him unless we have taken the time to learn about him. Because today is ... a little time getting to know him. Luke wrote the third Gospel account, which is why he is called âthe Evangelistâ and which we ...
The following is from a larger talk I am working on about Orthodoxy in the West. That ... âEthnicsâ (forgive me the shorthand, but I hope you know what I mean) feel out of place at parishes composed mainly of converts or ... things which in themselves are not antithetical to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, then that means I am rejecting the people who love ...
... align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Parable of the Wedding Feast, by A. N. Mironov(From Wikimedia ... of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen. The Gospel passage this morning is one that we do not hear every year in our ... to be suited up? There is a cultural detail we need to know to understand this piece of the story. In that time and place, the ...
... Sunday After Pentecost / Thirteenth Sunday of Matthew, August 30, 2015 I Corinthians 16:13-24; Matthew 21:33-42 Rev. Fr. ... to the Corinthian Christians from people they might know. But thereâs something beautiful lurking in that part between the ... Our teachersâ task is to teach the Orthodox faithâthe Gospel, the Scriptures, the theology, the lives of the saints, and so on. They ...
... width="1024"] Church Floor in Tabgha, next to the Sea of Galilee(From Wikimedia Commons)[/caption] Feast of St. Paraskeva ... Amen. We are all familiar with this account from the Gospels of the Feeding of the Five Thousand. Though we read today from Matthew ... etc., but when it comes to church life, where we know that, if we are faithful, we have God Himself on our side, why is it that ...
... Sunday after Pentecost / Sixth Sunday of Matthew, July 12, 2015 Romans 12:6-14; Matthew 9:1-8 Rev. Fr. Andrew Stephen ... silence for about an hour a day: to test himself, to acknowledge his passions and to fight in order to cut them off and purify his ... to draw near and listen to our Lord Jesus Christ and His Gospel. We as Christians have been and continue to be preached the good ...
... of the Blind Man, May 20, 2015 Rev. Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick In the Name of ... it was not a lucky day in 1453, and what was formerly known as Pontus or Asia Minor came to be called Turkey, and the city known as ... encounter this same kind of narrative dynamic in the Gospel of Christâs healing of the blind man. The Lordâs Apostles provide ...
... is exactly the halfway point between the beginning of Great Lent and the holy day of ... then there's really no point to any of this. That's the Gospel we're living. There's no other purpose to this holy season than ... on the Mount from Matthew and the Gospel of John." You know, Lord, that we Orthodox read the entire Gospel in our homes during Holy ...
... align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Christ and the Paralytic[/caption] Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas, March 8, 2015 Rev. ... heretics, whose assertion was that the highest form of knowledge of God was intellectualâthe philosophers, they said, had greater ... from the beginning of the second chapter of Markâs Gospel. Jesus was at Capernaum, teaching in a house which was said to be His ...
... align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Fr. Matthew teaching at Hellenic College[/caption] It's been astounding over the ... of spirit are part of what makes the actual pursuit of knowledge possible. Reason and learning without love are just cold calculation ... Holy Spirit in a communion of eternal love. This is the Gospel, that God so loved the world. One of the gifts that Fr. Matthew gave ...
... align="alignright" width="320"] Fr. Matthew Baker at his ordination on January 19, 2014[/caption] I awoke this ... with the charity that comes of being dedicated to knowledge and not making knowledge some kind of competition of possession. He ... I did indeed see), he somehow had a special gift for the Gospel. [caption id="attachment_3427" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Fr. ...
... align="aligncenter" width="646"] Icon of the Last Judgment[/caption] This sermon can be heard as an audio recording ... one God. Amen. Today our series on preaching the Gospelâevangelismâcontinues with the Sunday of the Last Judgment, commonly ... it is a promise of rescue from eternal suffering. Look, I know that heaven and hell stuff isnât fashionable, but itâs still real. ...
... id="attachment_3183" align="aligncenter" width="468"] The Ecstasy of Saint Paul, by Nicolas Poussin (1643)From Wikimedia ... it is himself he is talking about. He simply says âI know a man in Christâ who had this experience. But it has long been ... teaches us patterns for spiritual life. He preaches the Gospel, which includes teaching what it all means and how to live by it. His ...
... of the Blind Man, May 25, 2014 Rev. Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick In the Name of the ... of this celebration with the account from Johnâs Gospel of the healing of the man born blind. Having fasted and prayed our way ... blind. It is also not his parentsâ fault. He does not know any other way of living. Seeing is something he hears people talk about, ...
... March 2, 2014 Rev. Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. ... It is the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise. We know what happens when Adam and Eve sin, when they eat of that one thing ... He loves us without any question. The good news of the Gospel that is revealed to us in a particular, powerful way during this holy ...
The world is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian ... and strategies we are going to need to pass on what we know to be true to future generations in a culture, legal and otherwise, that ... but were instead concerned with getting the light of Gospel into a world covered in darkness. So what, then, do we do? I think we ...
There have been several postings online in the past few days of various articles claiming that the Christian Church at ... I really am not making this up) are those who either don't know better or quite desperately want him to be right. Boswell himself was gay ...
... of the Theotokos, 2012 In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy ... news, closely related to Evangelion, the word for âthe Gospel.â And yet, somehow, even 2,000 years after the proclamation of this ... for so much in lifeâif we want something, we have to know how to ask for it or perhaps how to look for it. The same is very much ...
... align="aligncenter" width="576" caption="The Hill of Crosses, Ć iauliai, Lithuania"][/caption]Sunday of the Adoration of ... of this world. The Lord Himself says this in todayâs Gospel: âIf any man would come after Me, let him deny himself and take up ... glory? Doesnât your heart burn within you not just to know about what is good, what is holy, what is filled with light and ...
... Schweine," Sebald Beham, 1538"][/caption] Sunday of the Prodigal Son, 2012 In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the ... think this is a real problem for many of usâwe do not know that we are separated from God, and probably worse yet, we may not even ...