January 28, 2024

“I don’t know many of the people in the church,” a lifelong member of our church told me recently. This man doesn’t come to church too frequently, yet he has been a part of our church since his birth 80 years ago. And he said to me, “There are so many new people in church. I don’t know who they are.” Read more »

January 21, 2024

I woke up yesterday to the sad news from one of our parishioners, Diana Megas, who asked for prayers for her brother, Danut, who was in a terrible car accident in Romania. He is on life support. I told her that I would share with our Church Family this very sad and difficult news and ask everyone to please pray for a miraculous healing for her brother Danut, and to pray for comfort and strength for all her family – for Danut’s wife and children, her elderly parents for whom he cares, and of course for Diana and Natalie and Alexis. Read more »

January 15, 2024

An extremist. How many of us would like to be labeled extremists? We see this on the far right and the far left. We see violent extremists throughout the world. We often link extremists with certain ideologies or religious movements. Our country, however, pauses on January 15th to remember someone who was considered an extremist of his time – the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Read more »

January 07, 2024

“I myself did not know him.” Saint John repeats this twice in today’s Gospel story. - “I myself did not know him, but for this I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel.” Read more »

January 02, 2024

"Acquire inner peace and thousands around you will be saved" “Where there is God, there is no evil. Everything coming from God is peaceful, healthy and leads a person to the judgment of his own imperfections and humility.” Read more »

January 01, 2024

1. Pray every day. Accept a Prayer Rule in your life, and then try to follow that rule every day. Prayer is connecting with God, communing with the Source of life. Say set prayers every morning and evening, but then seek to talk with God throughout the day. Don’t let an hour go by where you don’t “check in” with God and turn your attention to Him. Read more »

December 31, 2023

“The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” As we prepare to enter a new year, today we read from the Gospel of Mark and see him highlight in the very first verse “the beginning of Good News!” Read more »

December 25, 2023

Presbytera Faith and I were driving to church 10 days ago, just going straight on Dudley Oxford Road when unexpectedly a car turned right into the side of our car and flipped our car on its side. One moment we’re driving along, and the next moment I’m up in the air, with airbags in my face. Read more »

December 24, 2023

What is your name? What’s the name people call you, and what is the name that God knows you by? Read more »

December 17, 2023

Christmas is a time of wonder and joy. Why? Because God acted in a unique manner in history. He decided to come and save humanity from the darkness and evil of the world. Humanity was lost in its fallen nature and God lifted us up to a new reality. Read more »

December 10, 2023

What does the church mean to you? How does the Church and your Orthodox Christian faith bless you? What role does it play in your life? Let’s take a moment to seriously think about this. What does the Church and your Orthodox Faith mean to you? Read more »

December 03, 2023

Saint Paul tells us today to “Walk as children of light and try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord… Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise men and women, making the most of our time understanding what the will of God is." Read more »

November 19, 2023

I used to go to a prison every Monday night for three years while I was a seminarian. We would gather together with a group of 5 to 10 prisioners holding a Bible Study. One prisoner, Carol, was serving a life sentence in prison, yet every time I met him he was joyful and encouraging of others. Read more »

November 12, 2023

GRATITUDE AND THE EUCHARIST Children’s Sermon, Character Trait Theme: Gratitude (Presbytera Faith and Father Luke preached this together) Read more »

November 05, 2023

Life is an unfair mystery. We talked about this a few weeks ago in our youth sermon but today’s Gospel highlights this point to us once again. Read more »

October 29, 2023

How many of us like being interrupted? We may be in the middle of doing something, and then someone unexpectedly comes up to us, interrupts us, and disrupts our planned schedule. What about when we’re doing something really important? How do we react with such interruptions? Read more »

October 22, 2023

Cultural Christians. Orthodox Christian because of our family and heritage. “My grandparents were Greek Orthodox, my parents are Greek Orthodox, and I have inherited this faith as my own. I consider myself Greek Orthodox.” How many of us can say that? Read more »

October 15, 2023

“The line between good and evil passes through the heart of every human being.” Too often we like to adopt a simplistic worldview where there are good guys and there are bad guys. That's not the way we look at life as Christians. Read more »

October 08, 2023

All we have is God’s gift to us. All we become is our gift to God. Do we truly understand and believe this? All we have is God’s gift to us. All that we have in life is a gift from God and how we handle these gifts is our offering back to Him. Read more »

October 01, 2023

How many of you have ever traveled to Rome and seen St. Peter’s Cathedral at the Vatican? Or to Paris and seen Notre Dame? Or to Constatinople and seen Aghia Sophia Read more »