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Living Faith

July 13, 2025

In both today’s Epistle and Gospel readings, we hear the importance of obedience to Christ’s commandments. Fr. Micah focuses on ...

In today’s Epistle reading, St. Paul says, “Having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.” In this pa...

In this week’s Epistle reading, St. Paul tells us that he boasts in his weakness. Fr. Micah focuses on this concept in today’s s...

Sermons

The Law in Our Hearts

Sunday Sermon

June 22, 2025

In today’s Epistle reading from Romans 2, St. Paul says, “For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but...

Sermons

Christ and the Saints

Sunday Sermon

June 15, 2025

This Sunday, the Sunday following Pentecost, is the Sunday of All Saints. In his sermon, Fr. Micah reflects on what it means to be a saint, ...

Dr. Bill Marianes delivered today’s homily, focused on stewardship. He challenges us to use the gifts we’ve been given and allow...

On this Sunday, we celebrate the First Ecumenical Council, which occurred in Nicaea in 325 AD. Before addressing that council, Fr. Gregory f...

Sermons

Holy Ascension

Sermon of Holy Ascension

May 29, 2025

Fr. Micah explains the service of Holy Ascension ...

In today’s Gospel reading, Christ gives sight to the blind man, which Fr. Micah relates to our own blindness. In the fall, there was a...

In today’s sermon, Fr. Gregory focuses on the Epistle reading, which says, “For a whole year they met with the church, and taugh...

Sermons

Loneliness and Baptism

Sunday Sermon

May 11, 2025

In today’s Gospel reading, on this Sunday of the Paralytic, we begin a three-week theme of water. The paralytic lies next to a pool, t...

Sermons

The Myrrh Bearers Example

Sunday Sermon

May 04, 2025

On this Sunday, we commemorate the myrrh bearers. In his sermon, Fr. Gregory addresses three questions: (1) Who were the myrrh bearers? (2) ...

Sermons

Celebrate Resurrection

Sunday Sermon

April 27, 2025

On this Sunday of Thomas, Fr. Micah reminds us that we celebrate the resurrection not just on Pascha, but on every Sunday throughout the yea...

Sermons

Joy, Forbearance, & Peace

Sunday Sermon

April 13, 2025

In today’s sermon on Palm Sunday, Fr. Gregory focuses on the Epistle reading from Philippians 4. Within this passage are three things ...

Sermons

St. Mary's Asceticism

Sunday Sermon

April 06, 2025

On this Sunday, the fifth Sunday of Lent, we remember St. Mary of Egypt. Fr. Micah begins today’s sermon by telling her story — ...

Sermons

The Order of Melchizedek

Sunday Sermon

March 30, 2025

In today’s Epistle reading from Hebrews, we hear of Melchizedek, a figure introduced much earlier in Genesis. Fr. Gregory tells the st...

In today’s Gospel reading, Christ tells us that, if we wish to follow him, we must deny ourselves and take up our crosses. Today, the ...

On this Sunday and all Sundays of Lent, we celebrate the Liturgy of St. Basil the Great rather than the more common liturgy of St. John Chry...

In today’s Gospel reading, Phillip tells Nathaniel, “We have found him, he of whom Moses has spoken, Jesus of Nazareth.” N...

Sermons

The Gates of Repentance

Sunday Sermon

March 02, 2025

On this Forgiveness Sunday (also referred to as Cheesefare Sunday), the church commemorates the exile of Adam and Eve from Paradise. They ha...

On this Sunday of the Last Judgment, the Very Rev. Archpriest Andrew Stephen Damick visited Holy Trinity + Holy Cross and gave a sermon on w...

Sermons

Saturday of the Souls

Sermon

February 22, 2025

On this Saturday of the Souls, Fr. Gregory addresses the question of why Orthodox Christians pray for the reposed. He explains that we are c...

Sermons

In Everything Glorify God

Sunday Sermon

February 16, 2025

Fr. Micah begins today’s sermon by quoting the Epistle, in which Paul says, “Glorify God in your body.” Fr. Micah emphasiz...

Sermons

The Publican's Humility

Sunday Sermon

February 09, 2025

This Sunday is the beginning of the Triodion, a three-week period of preparation for Holy Lent which begins with the Sunday of the Publican ...

Sermons

Eyes Seen Your Salvation

Sunday Sermon

February 02, 2025

This Sunday, we celebrate the Presentation of Christ at the Temple, 40 days after his birth. We read the story of St. Symeon, a righteous an...

Sermons

Invite Jesus In our Homes

Sunday Sermon

January 26, 2025

In this period of time following Theophany, we invite Jesus into our homes through house blessings. Similarly, in today’s Gospel readi...

In today’s Gospel reading, we encounter 10 lepers crying out to Christ, saying, “Jesus Most High, have mercy on us.” Chris...

Fr. Gregory begins today’s sermon by relaying a message told to him by Elder Gabriel when he was visiting Mount Athos last week. He sa...

In today’s sermon, on the feast of Theophany, Fr. Micah describes the beauty and the greatness of Christ’s baptism. He points ou...

Sermons

The Waters of Baptism

Sunday Sermon

January 05, 2025

Fr. Micah begins today’s sermon by contrasting the Christian tradition of celebrating one’s name day with the more modern practi...

Sermons

Christmas Day

Christmas Day Sermon 2024

December 25, 2024

On Christmas morning, Fr. Gregory delivers an archiepiscopal encyclical from His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America. ...

Sermons

Christmas Eve Reflections

Christmas Eve Sermon 2024

December 24, 2024

In his Christmas Eve sermon, Fr. Micah encourages us to honor the great mystery of the Incarnation, God becoming man. We have all heard the ...

Sermons

Joseph's Righteousness

Sunday Sermon

December 22, 2024

In today’s sermon, Fr. Micah contrasts being right with being righteous. He draws our attention to one line from the Gospel reading, w...

In today’s Gospel reading, we find Christ’s parable of the great banquet. In the parable, all are invited to attend a wealthy ma...

Sermons

Healing and Fulfilling

Sunday Sermon

December 08, 2024

In this Sunday’s Gospel reading, Christ heals a woman who has been bent over for eighteen years, making her stand up straight. However...

In this Sunday’s reading from the Gospel of Luke, Christ gives a blind man his sight. Fr. Micah challenges us to ask ourselves if we, ...

Sermons

Trust to Follow Christ

Sunday Sermon

November 24, 2024

In this Sunday’s Gospel reading, a rich man comes to Christ and asks him what he must do to inherit everlasting life, and Christ tells...

This Sunday, on Stewardship Sunday, Fr. Gregory outlines the history of stewardship in the Scriptures. In the Old Testament, stewardship ser...

Fr. Joseph Copeland, this Sunday’s guest priest, opens his sermon with the purpose of humanity as defined by our sacred Tradition: to ...

Sermons

My Brother is My Life

Sunday Sermon

November 03, 2024

Fr. Gregory opens his sermon with a quote from St. Silouan the Athonite, who said “My brother is my life.” This Sunday’s G...

This Sunday, Fr. Micah spoke on generosity. He quoted 2 Corinthians 9, starting in verse 6, in which St. Paul says, “He who sows spari...

This Sunday, guest priest Fr. Stephen Freeman gave a sermon on the topic of chaos and order. He begins by explaining that we as humans do no...

This Sunday, we celebrate the synaxis — the coming together — of the holy fathers at the Seventh Ecumenical Council. These counc...

Sermons

Compassion and Communion

Sunday Sermon

October 06, 2024

In today’s Gospel reading, Christ has compassion on the widow of Nain, and he raises her son from the dead. Fr. Micah points out that ...

In today’s Gospel reading, Christ contrasts the kingdom of this world and the kingdom of the world to come, his kingdom. Fr. Gregory f...

In this Sunday’s sermon, Fr. Micah focuses on the life of St. Peter, whom we hear about in today’s Gospel reading. Christ...

Today, the Sunday after the Elevation of the Cross, we read about the Cross in both the Gospel and Epistle readings. In the Gospel, Christ t...

Fr. Micah begins his sermon today with a Greek saying which says, “Life without festivals is like a journey without an end.” As ...

On September 1, we celebrate the Church New Year. In his sermon, Fr. Gregory reflects on time and its significance in our faith and lives. ...

In today’s Gospel reading, Christ withdraws to a secluded place to pray, which he does throughout the Gospel accounts. Fr. Micah, in t...

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