Sermons

• Christmas Letter 2012

  
  

  Christmas 2012   Dear Parishioners, Thy Nativity, O Christ our God, has shone upon the world with the light of knowledge: for thereby they who adored the stars through a star were taught to worship Thee the Dayspring from on high.  O Lord, glory to Thee.  The Hymn of Christmas It is amazing to celebrate [...]

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• The 1st Sunday of Luke and the Feast of St. John the Baptist

  
  

  When a story is being written it is important for the author to establish the setting. Today is the first Sunday of Luke. The Orthodox church begins reading in public, the Gospel of Luke, from the Monday, following the Sunday, after the celebration of the Life Giving Cross. Today also happens to be six months [...]

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• Wide Awake: Sermon on the Sunday Before the Cross

  
  

  A very popular song today by Katy Perry called “Wide Awake”, artistically captures the plight of a person being humbled from the height of their pride.  In today’s gospel lesson, the Sunday before the celebration of the exaltation of the Holy Cross on September 14, we are presented with far better lyrics on humility.  The [...]

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• 2nd Sunday of Matthew – June 17

  
  

  After Pentecost, the church assigns the gospel of Matthew to be read and with the completion of the Book of Acts; St. Paul’s letter to the Romans is read.  From the Gospel lesson read today, the 2nd Sunday of Matthew after Pentecost, we learned of the obedience of Andrew, Peter, James and John, four fishermen [...]

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• Ο Βίος των Αγίων Κωνσταντίνου και Ελένης

  
  

  Βίος Αγίων Κωνσταντίνου και Ελένης των Ισαποστόλων Οι Άγιοι Κωνσταντίνος και Ελένη οι Ισαπόστολοι τιμόνται στις 21 Μαΐου Ο Μέγας Κωνσταντίνος Γέννηση και καταγωγή Ο Μέγας Κωνσταντίνος γεννήθηκε το 274 μ.Χ. εις την Ναϊσόν ή Νίσσαν της Μοισίας, περιοχή δηλαδή της σημερινής Νοτιοσλαβίας ή Κεντρικής Σερβίας. Μητέρα του ήταν η ευσεβέστατη χριστιανή Αγία Ελένη, της [...]

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• The Life of our Patron Saints Constantine and Helen the Equal-to-the-Apostles

  
  

  Sts. Constantine and Helen the Equal-to-the-Apostles Christ is risen! Truly He is risen! Sts. Constantine and Helen the Equal-to-the-Apostles – Commemorated on May 21st(http://pravicon.com/images/sv/s0767/s0767006.jpg)    “The Church calls St Constantine (306-337) “the Equal of the Apostles,” and historians call him “the Great.” He was the son o the Caesar Constantius Chlorus (305-306), who governed the [...]

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• The Feast of Pentecost

  
  

  Pentecost: The Descent of the Holy Spirit In the Old Testament Pentecost was the feast which occurred fifty days after Passover. As the passover feast celebrated the exodus of the Israelites from the slavery of Egypt, so Pentecost celebrated God’s gift of the ten commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai.   In the new covenant of the [...]

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• Paschal Greeting 2012- Christ is Risen

  
  

      With our pilgrimage to the Holy Lands this past summer, we had the opportunity to celebrate a midnight liturgy at the tomb of Christ. Maintained by the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem and shared by many different Christian denominations, the tomb of Christ is in the center of the complex of the church of [...]

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