Having just celebrated Thanksgiving, we’re reminded of the importance of giving thanks to God for His work in our lives: healing us, growing us, saving us. Giving thanks is not something we can afford to do just once a year, of course, for thanking God, remembering God as the Giver of all that is good, […]

“…God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’ So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.” How do we become ‘rich’ toward God? Christ God is meant to be everything to us […]

Commitment Sunday is November 16! Next Sunday we offer the Lord our commitments to Him for 2015. We do so, knowing that “he who sows sparingly, will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.” God always gives us more in return than what we manage to offer of ourselves: our […]

Today is the Synaxis of the Holy Unmercenary Healers or, as they are called in some traditions of the Church—“Physicians without silver”: Panteleimon, Cyril and John, Cosmas and Damian, and the others, who sacrificed themselves for the physical and spiritual healing of others. They are referred to as “physicians without silver” because they healed without […]

In the Orthodox Faith, when someone departs this life in the hope of the resurrection, we pray “Memory Eternal” for that person. We remember their name before God. The Fathers of the Church assure us that our prayers avail much, that the Communion in Christ of the living and the departed is ongoing. In today’s […]

“He who sows sparingly, will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully”—so begins today’s Epistle, challenging us to consider how ‘rich’ we are toward God in returning a portion to Him from that which He’s so graciously given and entrusted to us. While the standard of giving in the Church […]

Christ calls us through today’s Gospel to a deeper understanding of love. We are called as Christians not just to love those who are good to us, but even our adversaries. We love as Christ loves not by any power of ourselves, but through our communion with the Author of that love, our Lord God […]

Today Christ calls His foremost disciples, Peter, James, and John, from the simple life of fishermen to being “fishers of men,” in which they will give everything for the sake of the Gospel and the Kingdom of God. The Holy Spirit transforms these ‘simple’ fishermen into the great disciples and then Apostles of the Church. […]