The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (8:41-56) There is a wonderful simplicity and beauty to the Christian faith that is often overlooked or obscured. We get hung up on so many different things that it becomes easy to miss the point of everything. The main point of everything in the life […]

The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (16:19-31) We cannot begin to understand the immense blessing that Our Lord Jesus Christ shares with us by the opening of His mouth and the sharing of divine realities with us. Every time that we open the pages of the gospel we encounter something very […]

The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (8:26-39) When the priest prays the sacrament of baptism, he begins the service with prayers of exorcism over the catechumens who will be received into the holy Church. And as he prays that the Lord will bless the water, he asks the Lord to remove […]

The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (8:5-15) Today we hear the familiar parable of the sower who went out to sow his seed. As we listen to the whole of this parable we are left with the understanding that the soil is man’s heart and the seed in the word of […]

The Reading from the Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians. (6:16-7:1) and the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (7:11-16) The gospel of Jesus Christ, the good news of the work that God has done in the world, is quite literally a matter of life and death. In today’s epistle reading the apostle […]

The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (6:31-36) “As you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.” These are the first words that we hear today from our Lord Jesus Christ. They are life giving words. The teachings of Our Lord are quite revolutionary and they stand in […]

The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (5:1-11) In today’s gospels we see Peter, a grown man, a tough guy, brought to his knees and brought to the depths of humility by the Lord Jesus Christ. But what did the Lord do that brought Peter to his knees? Did He punish him? […]

The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Mark. (8:34-9:1) The gospel of Jesus Christ is the antidote to the problems of the world around us. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the vaccine of truth against a pandemic of lies. Among the most wicked and deceitful of all of the lies around us […]

The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew. (19:16-26) “What good deed must I do, to have eternal life?” That is the question posed today by the young man to our Lord Jesus Christ. In my opinion, part of the question is excellent and part of the question is not. The part of […]

The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew. (18:23-35) Today’s gospel reading is about forgiveness. What is forgiveness? According to the dictionary it means “to cease to feel resentment against (an offender)” or “to grant relief from a payment.” It is no surprise then that the gospel reading speaks of forgiveness in these […]