All Saints Homilies

Fr. Pat addresses three aspects of Great Lent.

Fr. Pat shares his homily from the Sunday of the Last Judgment.

Fr. Pat discusses three ambiguities in the parable of the Prodigal Son.

Fr. Pat comments on the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee.

Human beings are complex; grace is time insensitive; and we are coworkers with God.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you?

Fr. Pat examines three components of the parable.

Jesus and the Ten Lepers.

Fr. Pat examines the lay practice of Orthodoxy through the lens of the final chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews.

Fr. Pat introduces three Latin words that shed light on the mystery of the Incarnation.

Fr. Pat introduces three Greek words that shed light on the mystery of the Incarnation.

Fr. Pat discusses three periods of biblical history related to the Nativity.

Fr. Pat presents three points of reflection related to the first three months of Jesus's life: the Holy Spirit, the Ark of the Covenant, and Mary's departure back to Nazareth.

Fr. Pat presents a series of biblical quotations about kingship and priesthood.

Fr. Pat examines Psalm 3, a prayer that should be recited anytime a believer feels desperate and inundated.

Fr. Pat reflects on liberation from darkness, the way of the Cross, and the inner Christ.

Fr. Pat takes on the characters in this parable one by one—the father, the younger son, and then the older son.

Fr. Pat discusses the three things expected of us during Lent: works of mercy, works of prayer, and works of fasting.

Fr. Pat uses Aristotle's four causes to explore the consecrated life of the Mother of God.

Fr. Pat continues his discussion of discipleship.

True freedom is not the ability to choose; it is found through habitual thanksgiving, and it leads to a blessed and transfigured soul.

Fr. Pat discusses the social structure, the moral imperatives, and the discerning moral light of discipleship.

Fr. Pat discusses the meaning of Christian discipleship.

Fr. Pat compares Peter attempting to walk on water to what Holy Scripture tells us of the Patriarch Jacob.

Fr. Pat discusses the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes.

Fr. Pat discusses three approaches to death.

Fr. Pat discusses Sts. Peter and Paul and their relationship to the Orthodox Church.

Ideally, the discovery of the soul should accompany the discovery of God.

Fr. Pat discusses three problems that the Samaritan woman faces when she comes to the well and meets Jesus.

Fr. Pat discusses three points with respect to the healing of the paralytic.

Fr. Pat discusses the myrrh-bearing women and what united them.

Fr. Pat discusses the patterns of thought that make man so resistant to the cross.

Fr. Pat discusses the moral order in three stages.

Fr. Pat discusses three moral fallacies that corrupt the conscience.

Fr. Pat discusses the history of Great Lent and the practice of fasting.

Fr. Pat argues that the above phrase possesses all of the clarity of the Last Judgment.

Fr. Pat reflects on three points related to the Prodigal Son.

Fr. Pat explains that prayer is the highest of all human activities.

Fr. Pat reflects upon the Feast of the Presentation as a boundary between two seasons. It marks the end of the Christmas season and the beginning of the Lord's Passion.

Fr. Pat reflects upon two people who wanted to see Jesus but were unable to—and what they did about it.

Fr. Pat shares his homily on the Feast of Theophany.

Fr. Pat explores three ways of looking at Protagoras's infamous assertion.

Fr. Pat shares his homily from the Sunday of the Genealogy.

Fr. Pat discusses three Old Testament saints that are particularly important in preparation for Christ.

Fr. Pat explains that what God's Son did for the crippled woman is what He came to do for all mankind—to raise us up and straighten out our twisted lives.

Fr. Pat discusses the parable of the wedding invitations.

Fr. Pat reminds us that in Christ we start all over.

Fr. Pat discusses St. Paul's warnings regarding the influence of evil forces in Corinth.

Fr. Pat explains that love must be intelligent, practical and generous, and miraculous.

Fr. Pat shares his homily from the Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos.