MID-LENTEN COMPLACENCY
“Before Your Cross we bow down, O Master, and Your holy Resurrection we glorify.” (Byzantine Hymn of the Cross, chanted on the 4th week...
WHEN GOD INTERRUPTS
“In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name...
COVERING MY FATHER’S NAKEDNESS
“Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard. He drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he lay uncovered in his...
DISRUPTED TRAVEL PLANS
“Since, then, we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession....
THE MIND SET ON THE FLESH
“You, O Christ God, Who tasted death in the flesh for our sake at the ninth hour, put to death the mind set on our flesh, and save me!”...
FINDING BY LOSING
“Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the...
THOSE WHO NEED A PHYSICIAN
“As he was walking along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And he got up and...
THE BLESSING OF CHANGE
“Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar....
