Sermon ~ Do Not Weep
The Gospel of Luke 7:11-16 At that time, Jesus went to a city called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. As he drew near to the gate of the...
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Wedding Sermon
On October 6th I had the honor of joining together two people in the Holy Sacrament of Marriage. I do not usually post sermons from sacraments but I thought th...
Vespers in the Orthodox Church
By Fr. Lawrence Farley The service of Vespers is, I think, dramatically under-appreciated today. The temptation for us busy people is to reduce our church-goin...
Prayer of the Hours
Thou Who at all times and at every hour, in heaven and on earth, art worshipped and glorified, O Christ God, Who art long suffering, plenteous in mercy, most co...
Orthodox Spirituality Part 3
In the first essay in this series I wrote about the differences in Monastic and Lay spirituality in the Orthodox Church. I began with a basic outline of where ...
Orthodox Spirituality Part 2
In my last essay, I began a study of the differences between the Orthodox Monastic Spirituality and the Orthodox Lay person’s Spirituality. There is indeed a d...
Orthodox Spirituality Part 1
When I talk with people about the Orthodox Church I often relate the discussion to the Orthodox sense of Spirituality. One of the things that first attracted m...
Sermon ~ You are the Temple of the Living God
The Reading is from St. Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians 6:16-18; 7:1 BRETHREN, you are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will li...
Education and Morality
There is a common narrative that tells us the better educated one is, the better decisions one will make in life. I think there was a time that was more true t...
God’s Love Abides in Us
Lately, one of the common conversations, I have had with people is to tell them that God loves them. It seems there are so many people who are lost in anguish ...