Through faith, You have justified Your Ancestors, O Christ our God, and through them You have espoused in advance the Church set apart from The Gentiles. The saints rejoice in glory because, from the seed of These Ancestors, has come … Continue reading
Category Archives: From the Liturgy of the Day
The Gospel story we hear this weekend is interesting in-so-far as it reminds us that too often we forget to give thanks to God for the blessings we have received. All ten lepers were cured. Only one returned and gave … Continue reading
Our Gospel reading for this weekend relates the story of Jesus curing a badly stooped woman who had been suffering for 18 years. He cured her on a Sabbath and in a synagogue. In the Hebrew system of the numerical … Continue reading
The two readings this weekend deliver a knock-out message. The Epistle, which is taken from Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, clearly tells us to Live in the Light. The Gospel of Luke tells us: Trust in God and not in … Continue reading
The Jesus parable we hear this weekend as our Gospel is, probably, one of the most famous of all the Lord’s parables. Luke presents the Good Samaritan parable as a way of presenting ideas about discipleship. He has a lawyer … Continue reading
The Gospel miracle-story assigned to be read this weekend is found in all three Synoptic Gospels. It is the story of how a woman, sick for 12 years with a hemorrhage, was cured and how a twelve-year-old girl, the daughter … Continue reading
Of all the various miracles stories in the canonical Gospels, the one we hear today, the curing of the Gergesene Demoniac, this one that comes closest to the type found in the apocryphal Gospels (i.e., those not in the New … Continue reading
The story we hear this weekend for our Gospel, The Rich Man & Lazarus, is unique to Luke’s Gospel. In this story Jesus is addressing the Pharisees who were fond of money and who thought to find justification in their … Continue reading
This weekend, since our calendar repeats a Gospel that we already heard, I’ve elected to proclaim Luke’s version of the Beatitudes of Jesus. It is called the Great Discourse. The Beatitudes only appear in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. … Continue reading
This week we again have another special remembrance, that of the Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council. This is truly a special Council for all Eastern Christians. Why? Because it put an end to Byzantine iconoclasm, that movement which declared … Continue reading