Sunday of the Canaanite Woman February 18, 2024. Looking onward to this Sunday’s Gospel as the Church enters the Triodion period, we are brought into the world of the Canaanite woman who amid terrible hardship and suffering due to her demon possessed child and all the ailments that result of this runs to the Lord[…]
Author: Chris Purdef
Zacchaeus’ Tree
This Sunday February 4th begins the cycle where the Church asks us to slow down a bit and look towards a magnificent season that is coming upon us. It is a prelude, if you will, as we inch towards the Triodium period – a brief season with specific Gospel readings that prepare us for that[…]
THE PROFITABLE SERVANT ACCORDING TO ARCHBISHOP DMITRI OF DALLAS
LOOKING ON TO FEBRUARY 11TH Matthew 25:13-40 “A man going on a journey called his servants and entrusted to them his goods; to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and[…]
St. Nikolai Velimirovic on Blind Bartimaeus and the Role of the Parish.
Proverbs of Solomon 23-25: My Son Give Me Your Heart, and let your eyes observe my ways. The Gospel Reading for this Sunday January 28th Luke 18-35-43 leads us to Christ’s final journey through the Jordan Valley on His way to Jerusalem towards His ultimate mission to meet the Pharisees and Romans where He will[…]
THE MEETING OF OUR LORD IN THE TEMPLE
February 2nd The fortieth day after His birth, the All-holy Virgin brought her divine Son into the Temple of Jerusalem, in accordance with the Law, to dedicate Him to God and to purify herself (Leviticus 12:2-7; Exodus 12:2). Even though neither the one nor the other was necessary, the Lawgiver did not want in any way to[…]