All Saints Homilies
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The Light of Creation
Models for Lent
Mystery of Creation
Meet Him at the Well
Life in the Church, Forgiveness
Maintenance of The Life In Christ
Lent-What God Does For Us
Lent-Preparing Catechumens
Lazarus, Joanna, Matthew
Justification By Faith
Intercessory Prayer
Holy Week - The Cross
Holy Week-Christ Our Friend
The Humanity of Jesus
Response to Jesus' Prophecy
For the Peace from Above
In the petitions of the Great Litany, we begin by asking "for the peace from above and for the salvation of our souls." Only after we have asked for this peace do we ask "for the peace of the whole world." Christ is the source of our peace, and the only possible source of peace for the whole world.
Joy, Peace, and Thought (Philippians 4)
On Palm Sunday, at the beginning of this saddest of weeks, St. Paul exhorts us, "Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice."
The Resurrection and Human History (Acts of the Apostles)
Throughout the Paschal season, the Church reads from the Acts of the Apostles, a history book, in place of the Epistles during the Divine Liturgy. In this homily for Pascha, Fr. Pat asks, "What does the resurrection of Christ mean to human history?" (7:57)
The Name of Jesus (Acts 5:12-30)
The book of Acts teaches us about the name of Jesus as spoken to God, as spoken to our fellow men, and as spoken to demons.
The Sunday of the Blind Man (John 9:1-38)
With the coming of the Light, there are three responses: that of the Pharisees, that of the parents of the blind man, and that of the blind man himself.
What Happens at Baptism?
When we are baptized, we are made a child of God, a member of the body of Christ, and a temple of the Holy Spirit.
Joseph of Arimathea
Joseph, in taking responsibility for burying Jesus, could no longer keep it secret. His assumption of that responsibility represented the resolve to make the commitment public.
The Life of the Early Church: Affection, Humor, Friendship
Peter and Jacob
Testing and Faith (Matt. 17:14-23)
The Church, Man, and Forgiveness (Matt 18:23-35)
Nicodemus and Jesus (John 3:13-17)
Fishermen and Their Nets (Luke 5:1-11)
The Christian Life in Three Tenses (Romans 5)
The Redemption of History (Eph. 2:4-10)
Christ, the End of the Law (Rom. 10:1-10)
Personal Loyalties (1 Cor 1:10-17)
Christian Basics (1 Cor. 16:13-24)
Luke the Historian
John the Baptist (Mark 1:1-8)
A Ghostwritten Life - St. Anthony of Egypt
Sacred Grammar (2 Tim. 3:10-15)
The Holiness of the Christian Body (1 Cor. 6:12-20)
Judge, Brother, Teacher
A homily on Matthew 25:31-46
Beginning Lent (Romans 13:11-14:4)
The Bearers of the Paralytic (Mark 2:1-12)
New Lifestyle or New Life?
What difference does the message of the resurrection make in the thinking and actual lives of those who believe it?
The Special Group and the Special People in It
The Myrrh-Bearing Women
Mark Grows Up (Acts 15:36-40)
Spiritual Sunspots (Acts 5:1-11)
Ananias and Sapphira's blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.
Holiness and History (Hebrews 11:33-12:2)
Holiness is concrete, corporate participation in Christ's life.
Three Points of Christology (Romans 5:1-11)
Romans 5:1-11
Freedom (Romans 6:18-23)
The Dialectical Structure of History (Romans 10:1-10)
Every summer, my brothers and sisters, in either late June or early July we listen to the first ten verses of Romans 10. This text appears near the middle of Paul's analysis of the dialectical structure of history, which is the subject of Romans 9-11.