The Myrrhbearing Women: “Witnesses of these things”
During the week following last Sunday’s commemoration of the Myrrhbearing Women, the Vespers and Matins hymns…
Reflections in Christ
What It Was that Saved Thomas
Thomas had a heart that had taken one too many beatings. Despite his often being stigmatized by later generations as…
Songs of Light and Revelation
In the service of Sunday Matins (in Greek Orthros) of the Orthodox Church we find a series of eleven hymns called…
Looking at the Lenten Prayer
I cannot be the only Orthodox pastor to have been asked occasionally by my people about the meaning of…
Lives Worth Judging
As we draw closer to the beginning of Great Lent – which begins on Monday, February 19—we are able to set our Lenten…
Metropolitan Herman: Reflections of a Spiritual Son
NOTE: Saturday, February 10, 2018 marked the 45th Anniversary of the Consecration of His Beatitude…
The Gospel: Turning things upside down
Yesterday, the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee, we entered the season of the Triodion, that vast compilation of lenten…
Zacchaeus and the Temptation of Comparison
Recently, I noticed and then read two fine short homilies posted on our parish website concerning the story of the publican…
Martyric Ministry
In the old television show “Dragnet,” the announcer began by saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to see is…”
Resolutions or Repentance
According to the civil calendar, we begin the year of our Lord 2018 on January 1. The year of 2018 is based upon the…