Born for our Liberation from Bondage: Homily for the 25th Sunday After Pentecost and the 10th Sunday of Luke in the Orthodox Church

Ephesians 4:1-7; Luke 13:10-17 When Jesus Christ was teaching in a synagogue on the Sabbath, he saw a woman who was bent over and could not straighten up. She had been that way for eighteen years. Imagine how her life had changed due to her disability, how frustrating that chronic illness had to be. The Lord said to her, “Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity.” When He laid hands on…