The Cost of Community
In the modern world we have seen our experience of community diminish even during our own life-times. We no longer…
St Cyril and the Meaning of the Cross
I was reading the Commentary of St Cyril of Alexandria concerning the Gospel of St John this afternoon. In one…
Discovering our Identity
The problems faced by young people within the Orthodox Church are not unique to them. They are experienced by those…
What is a real man?
We live in an age of great confusion. When I was a child in the 1960s, people would take time…
Homily for Thomas Sunday
In our Orthodox Church this first Sunday of the fifty days of Pentecost is often called Thomas Sunday because of…
Overcoming the Roots of Sin
We often discover that when one habitual sin becomes partly or completely overcome then the deeper root of that sin…
Great Lent – The First Sunday
Matthew 6:19-30 The passage we have read from the Gospel of St Matthew seems to me to be full of…
Great Lent – Saturday of the First Week
In the passage from the Gospel today, we have heard our Lord Jesus Christ instruct us to pray for our…
Great Lent – Friday of the First Week
There were many times that the Disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ asked questions of him, or of each other.…
Great Lent – Thursday of the First Week
Today we keep the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple. We remember in the…