Reflection on Midfeast of Pentecost
As we celebrate the Midfeast of Pentecost, we are reminded that the Paschal season is a movement. It is not simply a festive forty days after the Lenten fast, nor simply a length…
Reflections in Christ
Reflection on the Sunday of the Paralytic
In ancient days Jacob rolled away a stone to water the flocks, and during these days of Pascha, we contemplate how, the stone rolled away, living water flows from…
Reflection on the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women
On this Third Sunday of Pascha, we continue to contemplate the world-changing reality of the empty Tomb. In particular, this Sunday calls us to contemplate…
Reflection on Thomas Sunday
On eighth day, our Lord appears to Thomas, passing through closed doors. When the Lord appeared on the first day of the week, in the evening immediately after his Rising…
Reflection on the Great Feast of our Lord’s Resurrection
On this feast of feasts, I pray that each of us would experience the grace and truth that have come into the world through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Christ’s Resurrection…
Homily for Holy Friday
Today, we gather around the throne of God, to honor in silence the King who rests upon that throne, as was spoken by the Prophet Habakkuk: The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep…
Homily on Palm Sunday
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. “Today the grace of the Holy Spirit has gathered us together, and we all take up thy Cross and say: Blessed is he that…”
Reflection on the Great Feast of Our Lord’s Entry into Jerusalem
In the troparion for this two-day Feast of Palms, we sing: “By raising Lazarus from the dead before thy Passion, thou didst confirm the universal resurrection, O Christ. Like…
Reflection on the Sunday of Saint Mary of Egypt
Today is the fifth and final Sunday of Great Lent: though our fasting continues, the Forty Days end this coming Friday, to be followed by the brief but liturgically distinct two-day Feast of Palms, which…
Reflection on Akathist Saturday
Just a few days ago, we celebrated the Annunciation to the most holy Theotokos; now, we dedicate a whole liturgical day to her akathist hymn. This akathist is truly one of the great treasures…