The dia-logos of faith
I came upon a striking phrase in an article by Dionysis Skliris: Ο Χριστός, επομένως, ως ενυπόστατος διάλογος Θεού και ανθρώπου…: Christ, the ‘enhypostasized’ (let’s just say ‘personified’ for simplicity) […]
Category: Sermon
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The First Liturgy
This is a unique miracle narrative (Matthew 14:14-22). It is the only miracle that all four Gospels include. So we should pay extra attention! It is also the most public […]
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“after six days…”
On August 6th the Orthodox Church celebrates the great feast of Transfiguration, that amazing event in the life of our Lord that is represented on our beautiful wall icon. Let’s […]
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Why we are community
A reading today from Paul’s Letter to the Romans (12:6-14) that clearly spells out what a Christian community should look like and act like. Here, in chapter 12 of this […]
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Embraced by the Poverty – Sermon, 21 July 2019
Elisabeth Behr-Sigel (1907-2005) was one of the most important Orthodox theologians of the 20th century. Born in Alsace, France, to a Protestant father and a Jewish mother, she was attracted […]
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A Little Theology – Sermon, 14 July 2019
The Lord said to his disciples, “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. Nor do men light a lamp and put […]
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A Kingdom of Living Icons
Today we celebrate the Feast (Synaxis) of the Twelve Apostles. In the Gospel reading we heard: At that time, when Jesus saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because […]
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He had the grace – Sermon, 23 June 2019
A tough Gospel reading today – one of those “hard sayings of Jesus”. Perhaps it was not shocking in the early centuries of Christianity when people often had to abandon […]
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Our Eyes Are Wide Open
We are living in an incredibly beautiful and exciting time. So many discoveries are being made, to expand our awareness of life and the universe. Just a couple weeks ago […]
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Faith is the Cross!
Two Sundays ago we heard about the faith of the four friends who brought a man through the roof of a house so that Jesus would heal him. Today we […]