Sunday of Zacchaeus

Glory to Jesus Christ!  Glory forever! In the Name of the Father, and of the + Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. “And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.  And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus . . . .” This morning we meet once again our...

31st Sunday after Great and Holy Pentecost

Glory to Jesus Christ!  Glory forever! In the Name of the Father, and of the + Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. This encounter between our Lord and this “certain ruler” is captured by all three of the Synoptic Evangelists: Matthew (Mt. 19:16-26), Mark...

Sunday before the Theophany

Christ is born!  Glorify Him! In the Name of the Father, and of the + Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. As we begin a new year, the Apostle speaks of endings – his end, that is to say, his time has come to go “’the way of all the earth’” (3 Kg. [1 Kg.]...

Sunday before the Nativity

Glory to Jesus Christ!  Glory forever! In the Name of the Father, and of the + Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. What is characteristic of all those named here today in the reading from Hebrews is that, “having obtained a good testimony through faith,...

Hieromartyr Alexander Hotovitsky

Glory to Jesus Christ!  Glory forever! In the Name of the Father, and of the + Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen. “’Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning; and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, . . . Blessed are those servants...