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A Form of Acknowledgment — 251 episodes
Announcement: Merging Podcasts
"Humility is the soil on which the seed of the word of God can thrive."
"What is that of which you speak?" - Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
"Transcendent love in the Christian life" - Second Sunday of Luke
"What do we do when we encounter God?" - First Sunday of Luke
"Into, or out of, great silence" - Nativity of the Theotokos
"The foundation of your identity"
"A lesson on synergy, and a model for life" - Eight Sunday of Matthew
“She Published the Unutterable Abyss of God’s Love for Humankind”
“Impulses worth giving into…”
"Overcoming the plague of pride" - Fathers of the 4th Ecumenical Council
"Laboring in the land of disenchantment" - All Saints of North America
"The Precious Lives of the Saints" - Sunday of All Saints
"Not-so-common things (On the Holy Mysteries)" - Sunday of the Blind Man
"Worship, from the heart" - Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
“An initiation into transcendent love” - Sunday of the Paralytic
“The greater miracle: Forgiveness of sins” - Palm Sunday
"Asceticism and spiritual 'progress'" - Sunday of St. John Climacus
"Those who bear fruit and do good works in this holy and and all-venerable temple" - Protodeacon Philip Jenson
"...this is the Faith which has established the universe" - Sunday of Orthodoxy 2024
"Refusing to allow the sin of another to live on in me..." - Forgiveness Sunday
"On Judgment, and no longer being foreigners to the light" - Sunday of the Last Judgment
"The Prodigal Son, the Elder Brother, and the Loving Father" - Sunday of the Prodigal Son (children's homily)
"Do the right things, for the right reasons" - Publican and the Pharisee
“Taming the pursuit of pleasure” - Sunday of the Canaanite Woman
"Liberation from slavery to necessity" - The Parable of the Talents
"A heart that is broken and humble, God will not despise" - Zacchaeus Sunday
“What persecution isn’t, what persecution is, and how to endure it”
"Repenting or imbibing death" - Sunday after Theophany
"Lessons from St. John the Baptist"
"Why God became man" - Sunday before Nativity
“The aim of fasting and the prayer of the heart”
"Pray ceaselessly from the depths of your heart to your Christ, until it aches with longing for the truth."
"Training for Eternity" - Fifth Sunday of Luke
“On being broken and coming into contact with The Lord”
"God's revelation to the human heart"
"You are what you see" - Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council
"Sometimes we have to close our eyes in order to see ourselves" - a lesson from the life of St. Pelagia
“The struggle to give and to receive love” - Second Sunday of Luke
"The height of Christian Theology: 'Love your enemies'" - St. Silouan the Athonite
"Evading your cross?" - Sunday after the Elevation of the Cross
"How to hear God"
"Is it hard to enter the Kingdom of Heaven?"
"Forgiveness with integrity / The untamed river of Divine Providence"
"Ascent to Humility" - Transfiguration 2023
"The lens through which I see the world"
"The cause of war, without and within"
"Friends of God, Witnesses for Christ" - All Saints
"The Seamless Garment of Christ- The Theology of the Church"
"That the works of God might be made manifest" - Sunday of the Blind Man
"He Who thirsts for those who are thirsty" - Sunday of the Samaritan Woman
"Glory to Thy power, O Compassionate Christ!" - Sunday of the Paralytic
"Rolling away the stone from the tomb of the heart" - Sunday of the Holy Myrrh-bearers
"Unafraid to live, unafraid to die" - Thomas Sunday
"The triumph of humility" - Palm Sunday 2023
"Embracing the process of repentance and going to your desert place" - Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt
"A different kind of violence" - Sunday of St. John Climacus
"Take up your cross!" - Sunday of the Cross
"A pure gift of grace in this present life" - Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas
"What we should have done, and what we can do" - Forgiveness Sunday
"Bound, or Unbound, at the Dread Judgment Seat of Christ - Preparation through Confession"
Preparing our hearts for Great Lent / Sunday of the Prodigal Son
"How do we present ourselves before God?"
"What do you do when you are humiliated?"
Zacchaeus Sunday, 2023
"What is repentance?"
Feasts of St. Basil & the Circumcision of Christ
"To live without speaking is better than to speak without living"
"The Healing of Monstrosity by the Touch of Christ"
"Can I be saved?"
"True Christians are not 'stingy' - blessed be the Name of the Lord!"
"Fasting, with St. John Chrysostom"
"Lost in the crowd" - Protodeacon Philip Jenson
"Remembrance of death"
“Freedom from anger, with gentleness and patience”
“Is it okay to be different?”
“Love your enemies” - a children’s homily
“Synergy: Soaring with two wings”
“Justification and The Cross”
“Those for whom Christ died on the cross…”
“The preeminence of the Gospel, and the Jesus Prayer”
“A consummate man of violence: St. Moses the Ethiopian”
“The path to perfection, beginning with baptism”
“If we bear Christ in this age, then He will bear us unto eternity” - Forefeast of Holy Dormition
“The devil taught me…and participation in the miracle of God’s generosity
“Do what you do not want to do”
“You are what you think?”
“Your life, as a candle”
“Enduring a little suffering for Christ’s sake”
“An evangelical feast” - Sts. Peter & Paul
“Strangers and sojourners that sanctify this land” - All Saints of North America
"Orthodoxy of the Heart" - Sunday of All Saints
"The Descent of the Comforter" - Holy Pentecost, 2022
“Say what you mean, mean what you say, and…death to sarcasm!”
"Seeing the mystery and the miracle of the other"
“Abortion: an Orthodox perspective”
“Hope against hope, and hastening to the resurrection”
"My Lord and my God!" - Thomas Sunday (written by Fr. Thomas Davis)
“Hosanna! We pray Thee, save!” - Palm Sunday 2022
"Entering the Church with repentance" - Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt
"Ascent to humility" - Sunday of St. John Climacus
“Our friend…the terrible, precious, and life-giving Cross”
“Pray simply, pray without ceasing”
"The power of the image" - Sunday of Orthodoxy
"Fasting and Forgiveness - 'Bless, and do not curse'"
“Love and judgment”
"Returning to the Father's Embrace" - Sunday of the Prodigal Son
"The dispositions with which we approach God"
"A righteous rebuke"
"Jesus is calling YOU"
"Outflanking distraction with prayer"
Homily, 1/9/22 - Sunday After Theophany
"Real Love changes those who will be changed" - Sunday before Nativity
"Types, Foreshadowings, Expectations - All things lead to Christ" - Sunday of the Holy Forefathers
"'Beauty will save the world' - stand upright and let every breath praise the Lord!"
"The Church provides all that we need"
"Kiss the ground"
"Saints came home with me"
"The evangelical life of the Orthodox Christian (i.e. do not receive the grace of God in vain)"
Children's Homily: "Earthen Vessels, Living Chalices"
"Unlocking the mystery of life through the cross of humility"
"The Cross - our answer, our solution, our way"
"Deep forgiveness - the Christian's prerogative"
"To be free, to set paths straight, to live according to the conscience!"
"We fall down, and we get up"
"The funeral of the Mother of Christians - our Summer Pascha"
"Grace always precedes temptations as a warning to prepare…"
"The Tapestry of Our Faith" (delivered by Protodeacon Philip)
"The One Who meets us in the tempest of life"
"Bearing witness to the union without confusion"
"Inspired compositions" - a homily for Holy Pentecost
"In the Church...this conciliar life that we live"
READING: “Will you endure everything for My love?”
"Malady within the scheme of God's providence"
"Christ was known by His love; they will know we are Christians by our love"
“Do you want to be healed? An Invitation to Synergy with God”
"Faith, doubt, and humility - sacred means to knowing God" (Thomas Sunday)
The Life of our Holy Mother Mary of Egypt
"The death of death and the tree of life" - Sunday of the Cross
"Prayer of the Heart: Humble entry into the mystery of life in God"
"Seeing beneath the surface, taking seriously the incarnation of our Lord"
"Let love eclipse judgment, and forgive"
On Judgment, and No Longer Being Foreigners to the Light
"Prodigality, complacency, or passivity? The story of the whole of humanity in a parable"
"Season of repentance, season of forgiveness"
"The parable of the talents, and Fr. Elias Diamandides"
"Zacchaeus as a mirror and an inspiration"
"The veiled glory of God'
"The threefold path - our process of salvation"
"'This was from me' - radical trust in God's providence" (a homily for the New Year)
"On realizing the humility and love of God, and accepting such a threat to the human condition"
"A gift for the King"
"Our 'Apa' Herman: Living invocation of the Holy Spirit"
"What fruit has your zeal borne?"
"Follow Christ, lay aside all cares, and become earthly angels"
"Love, and let Christ preside"
"The love of the one - lessons from encounter with the Gadarene demoniac"
"Serpents and scorpions don't make good pets"
"Because we love Him" (i.e. why we have icons in the Orthodox Church)
"The dissolution of hatred by way of intercession" (i.e. "love your enemies")
"Charismatic despair"
"On the cruciform life"
"What the Cross is"
"Meet me in the middle"
"The Human Vocation of Co-Creation" (a homily for the Nativity of the Theotokos)
"Setting the mind at the door of the heart - on watchfulness & prayer"
The Twofold Confession of a Christian: Confess Sin, and Confess Christ
"Hypocrisy & forgiveness: Lessons from the Desert Fathers"
"St. Paraskeve, spiritual sight, and controlling the faculty of speech"
“The Tragedy of Division, and the Unity of the Church”
"Getting to know St. Paisios, and combating complacency"
"On being a worthy 'unworthy' one"
"Shout at the birds and yell at the soil"
"The harvest of the coming of the Holy Spirit"
"Acquisition of the Holy Spirit"
"Let us be one"
"Not-so-common things" - on the Holy Mysteries
"Participating in God's work: thoughts on evangelism (sowing, laboring, harvesting)"
"Be a thief and jealously seize the sacrament of silence"
"Arise! Spring forth as from death unto life!"
"Tears that kindle the flame of faith"
"Rejoice always"
"...come forth!"
"The likely and the unlikely"
"Obedience is life; disobedience is death"
Acceptance of the cross as a means to life
St. Gregory Palamas, Everyday Hesychasm, and the Prayer of the Heart
'Immersive worship' - Sunday of Orthodoxy 2020
Forgiveness, and the art of fasting
On longing for the Father's house and returning from exile
"I have only begun to repent"
Let your light shine!
What is the Kingdom of Heaven?
Holy Theophany, an Exposition of this Cosmic Feast
Love: The National Anthem of Paradise
MTD and the 'Chocolate Jesus'
Make your experiment with God and travel lightly to the cave
"Never give up!" - a proclamation of the mercy of God
Remembrance of death, a firm resolve, and a sustained sense of urgency
On Being Broken and Coming into Contact with the Lord
Orthodox Non-Possesiveness and the Kenotic Life
"Salvation through matter" - Fr. Sergius Bowyer
Orthodoxy for America - a homily for the Feast of St. Innocent of Alaska
'Half-Christianity' and 'The Crucifixion of the Mind'
"Our Anniversary" - a homily for the Ecclesiastical New Year
"Call no man father"
"We fall down, and we get up"
Life is given the the barren place, the wilderness that is our humanity
"Lessons from St. Olaf" - Protodeacon Philip Jenson
The therapeutic nature of dogma
Witnesses in life and in death
"Reflections on our true journey in life" - Protodeacon Philip Jenson
Prepare a place for Him, and He will prepare a place for you
Twofold enlightenment of the blind
Cosmic and Microcosmic worship
Entering into the Kingdom by way of repentance
A Continuation of the Triumph Orthodoxy, and the Prayer of the Heart
Readings from "A Spiritual Psalter" by St. Ephraim the Syrian - Psalm 3
Readings from "A Spiritual Psalter" by St. Ephraim the Syrian - Psalm 2
"The medium is the message" - on the power of the image
Children's Homily - Erasing the 'troublemaker'
Readings from "A Spiritual Psalter" by St. Ephraim the Syrian - Psalm 1
Love and judgment - "...as you did it to one of the least of these...you did it unto Me"
Prodigality and return
The crisis of subjectivity and asceticism of self-knowledge
Children's Homily - "Talents that everyone can multiply"
St. Ignatius Brianchaninov on Zacchaeus, "...to seek and save that which is lost."
Back to basics: Repentance
On realizing the humility and love of God, and accepting such a threat to the human condition
‘Your presence matters’ - homily by Protodeacon Philip Jenson
Sunday of the Forefathers - typology and explication
The 'earthy' spirituality and living epiklesis of St. Herman
That all might be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth...
The demand of the heart, and outflanking the ripples of distraction
Of the incorruptible riches of Orthodoxy (in view of such abundance)
On freedom from unnecessary necessity
Holy dissidents - lessons from St. Menas the Wonderworker
“My brother is my life”
On the Gadarene Demoniac, in four movements
The seamless garment of Christ - the theology of the Church
"Through the eyes of a child" - on the upbringing of children
"Enlighten the vesture of my soul..."
"Be watchful!"
The Preeminence of the Gospel & the Prayer of the Heart
"The Queen is dead, long live the Queen"
Deep Forgiveness, the Christian's Prerogative
Illuminated & Illumined - On Seeing & Becoming Light
"Fast & Pray" - Reflections on Fasting and Asceticism
Enduring hardship - our ‘trial by fire’ - and building an ‘enduring’ identity
7/15/18, Homily - The Fathers of the 4th Ecumenical Council
Reflections on the PLC - 6th Sunday after Pentecost 2018