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Sermons
Three Fears
Sunday Sermon
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 ...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
Sermons
Obedience in Action
Sunday Sermon
July 06, 2025
In today’s Epistle reading, St. Paul says, “Having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.” In this pa...
Fr. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D
Sermons
In Our Weakness
Sunday Sermon
June 29, 2025
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...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
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...
Fr. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D
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, ...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
Education
On Stewardship
Bill Marianes
June 08, 2025
Dr. Bill Marianes delivered today’s homily, focused on stewardship. He challenges us to use the gifts we’ve been given and allow...
Bill Marianes
Sermons
On Conciliarity
Sunday Sermon
June 01, 2025
On this Sunday, we celebrate the First Ecumenical Council, which occurred in Nicaea in 325 AD. Before addressing that council, Fr. Gregory f...
Fr. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D
Sermons
Holy Ascension
Sermon of Holy Ascension
May 29, 2025
Fr. Micah explains the service of Holy Ascension ...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
Sermons
Cleansing Our Senses
Sunday Sermon
May 25, 2025
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...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
Sermons
Church Membership
Sunday Sermon
May 18, 2025
In today’s sermon, Fr. Gregory focuses on the Epistle reading, which says, “For a whole year they met with the church, and taugh...
Fr. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D
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...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
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) ...
Fr. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D
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...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
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 ...
Fr. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D
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 — ...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
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...
Fr. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D
Sermons
Take Up Your Cross
Sunday Sermon
March 23, 2025
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 ...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
Sermons
The Anaphora Prayer
Sunday Sermon
March 16, 2025
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...
Fr. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D
Sermons
Come and See
Sunday Sermon
March 09, 2025
In today’s Gospel reading, Phillip tells Nathaniel, “We have found him, he of whom Moses has spoken, Jesus of Nazareth.” N...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
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...
Fr. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D
Sermons
The Last Judgement
Sunday Sermon
February 23, 2025
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...
V Rev. Andrew Stephen Damick
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...
Fr. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D
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...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
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 ...
Fr. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D
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...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
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...
Fr. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D
Sermons
Answered Prayers
Sunday Sermon
January 19, 2025
In today’s Gospel reading, we encounter 10 lepers crying out to Christ, saying, “Jesus Most High, have mercy on us.” Chris...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
Sermons
Using our Gifts
Sunday Sermon
January 12, 2025
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...
Fr. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D
Sermons
Waters of Theophany
Christ Baptism
January 06, 2025
In today’s sermon, on the feast of Theophany, Fr. Micah describes the beauty and the greatness of Christ’s baptism. He points ou...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
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...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
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. ...
Fr. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D
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 ...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
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...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
Sermons
The Great Banquet
Sunday Sermon
December 15, 2024
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...
Fr. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D
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...
Fr. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D
Sermons
Eyes of the Blind
Sunday Sermon
December 01, 2024
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, ...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
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...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
Sermons
Stewarding Creation
Sunday Sermon
November 17, 2024
This Sunday, on Stewardship Sunday, Fr. Gregory outlines the history of stewardship in the Scriptures. In the Old Testament, stewardship ser...
Fr. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D
Sermons
Healing our Humanity
Sunday Sermon
November 10, 2024
Fr. Joseph Copeland, this Sunday’s guest priest, opens his sermon with the purpose of humanity as defined by our sacred Tradition: to ...
Fr. Joseph Copeland
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...
Fr. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D
Sermons
Sowing and Reaping
Sunday Sermon
October 27, 2024
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...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
Sermons
Chaos and Mercy
Sunday Sermon
October 20, 2024
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...
Fr Stephen Freeman
Sermons
On Iconography
Sunday Sermon
October 13, 2024
This Sunday, we celebrate the synaxis — the coming together — of the holy fathers at the Seventh Ecumenical Council. These counc...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
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 ...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
Sermons
Not of the World
Sunday Sermon
September 29, 2024
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...
Fr. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D
Sermons
On St. Peter
Sunday Sermon
September 22, 2024
In this Sunday’s sermon, Fr. Micah focuses on the life of St. Peter, whom we hear about in today’s Gospel reading.  Christ...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
Sermons
Denying Ourselves
Sunday Sermon
September 16, 2024
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. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D
Sermons
Created to Celebrate
Sunday Sermon
September 08, 2024
Fr. Micah begins his sermon today with a Greek saying which says, “Life without festivals is like a journey without an end.” As ...
Fr. Micah Hirschy
Sermons
Reflections on Time
Sunday Sermon
September 01, 2024
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. ...
Fr. Gregory Edwards, Ph.D
Sermons
People of Prayer
Sunday Sermon
August 25, 2024
In today’s Gospel reading, Christ withdraws to a secluded place to pray, which he does throughout the Gospel accounts. Fr. Micah, in t...
Fr. Micah Hirschy



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