Sermon offered on All Saints Sunday, June 19, 2022.
The gift inside each person is the image of God. This gift defines us and is there to be more fully realized.
Parable of the Talents. 2021.
We are never stuck in our sinfulness. Through repentance we can share in Christ's divinity; we can be changed by the Love of Christ.
Zaccheus Sunday 2021.
Christ's healing the blind man shows us how spiritual sight must be something we strive for
Christmas 2020
How closely do we clasp our expectations? We must set them aside and accept how God works in our lives.
Palm Sunday 2021.
When God comes to us, do we cooperate or turn away? We venerate the Theotokos on the feast of her mystical conception of God Himself.
Annunciation 2021.
Every Christian is called to a life of asceticism: the exercise of spiritual effort.
Saturday before Lent 2021
Offenses, and likewise forgiveness, stretches out to touch everyone around us. Imagine the world if everyone forgave as often as they offended.
Forgiveness Sunday 2021.
Well intentioned piety can be distorted into obsession, which is not healthy. Similarly we can neglect to pay sufficient attention to our spiritual lives. We must thread the needle between these extremes to find virtue.
Publican & Pharisee 2021
The Prodigal Son returned to his father even after wasting everything. Nothing can take away our Father's love for us, either. We can always remember who we are in His eyes: beloved.
Lent is a tool for our spiritual growth, not something used to punish us or to be worshipped in itself
Feast of the Three Hierarchs January 30th 2021
The words of consecration ask God to "send down Your Holy Spirit upon us and upon the gifts presented". On this feast of Pentecost, we remember the living activity of the Holy Spirit all around us.
Pentecost 2022
Fr Nicholas explores the relationship between physical and spiritual illness on the Sunday of the Paralytic 2022.
Sermon offered at the Orthros of Holy Saturday (Holy Friday) 2022. What did Christ do in Hades? He called out to His fallen creation and re-created it.
Words offered at the conclusion of the Orthros of Holy Thursday, 2022. Commemorated in this service is the Lord washing the disciples' feet.
Palm Sunday 2022. Our thoughts deceive and distract us; but we need to pay attention to one thing - CHRIST.
5th Sunday of Lent 2022 (St. Mary of Egypt)