Category: homely homily
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Homily Endpoint
Here’s the way the Homily came out. The two halves got reversed. The Homily starts at about the 6 minute mark.
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Vlog, Homily Preview
The folks over at Blaze Media reprinted my essay, I was in Hell. The texts for the Sunday of the Man Born Blind: Glory Let us, the faithful, praise and worship the Word, co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit, born for our salvation from the Virgin; for He willed to be lifted up on…
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Knowing God
On the Second Sunday of Lent we commemorate St Gregory Palamas. This is treated as a second Sunday of Orthodoxy, a reclarification of the Faith.
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Sunday Reflection
Our two priests were away and the community had a Typica Service today. I was blessed to give the reflection at this service. Troparion – Tone 1When the stone had been sealed by the Jews, while the soldiers were guarding Thy most pure body, Thou didst rise on the third day, O Savior, granting life…
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The Holy Name
Christ is Born! Glorify Him! Yesterday at our Byzantine Catholic Parish we had no priest and, thus, no Divine Liturgy. We served the Morning Office, Orthros or Matins, together with what is called the Typica Psalms. This last is exactly a service for when there is no priest present. The basic service is posted here…
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Retvrn!
How can you return to your God if you’re not yourself?
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Crazy 4 Jesus
What does it profit to gain the whole world and lose your soul? Who (or what) is dying on your cross?
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What is IS?
What is the value of a human being? Of what is he made that he costs so little and so much?
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Who Chose Who?
Oil and water never mix. What about the Gentiles and the Chosen?
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All Things?
When things are good, the will of God seems pretty awesome. How can we talk about the will of God around a dumpster fire like we have now?
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Wondrous Type
In the process of meditation literature, to be “fulfilled” is not to draw a 1:1 ratio between the accidents of a prediction and their “coming true”. Rather it’s to draw, as it were, a 1:10 ratio between the accidents of the prediction and the new, more-full way they are manifested.
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Asleep in the Light
How do we balance the idea of “doig good for all” with the secular welfare state and the need to just fiscally support people?
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The Medium is the Message
The Readings for the Elevation of the Holy Cross (14 Sept 23) For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1:18 TAKE A LOOK AT THE various English translations of 1 Corinthians 1:18. Most of…
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A New House
The Readings for Dedication of the Church of the Anastasis in Jerusalem (13 Sept 23) Yet Jesus has been counted worthy of as much more glory than Moses as the builder of a house has more honor than the house. Hebrews 3:3 THIS IS ONE OF Those arguments that gets lost in translation. Because –…
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Breaking Bad
The Readings for 16th Tuesday after Pentecost (xii.IX.2023) For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another. Galatians 5:13 SAUL or, to use his Latin name, Paul (it was not, like Abraham, changed by God) is telling…
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