Homily – A Vision of Heaven… and Hell (Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas)

Hebrews 1:10 – 2:3 St. Mark 2:1-12 Introduction:  Repentance as the Narrow Gate to Health and PerfectionThe way to spiritual health and enlightenment is through repentance.  This is a hard way, a narrow gate (Matthew 7:13), but of all the other possibilities, all the other paths to real life and meaning, all the other ways […]

Homily – Icon of Heaven or Hell

Fathers of the Seven Ecumenical Councils God desires that we become One.  Our own mechanisms to bring this about (e.g. power and technology) create icons of hell; how can we do it right? Galatians 6: 11-18St. John 17: 1-13 Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be […]