Ever feel like you’re drowning? Like it’s just too much? Like the world around you is a raging sea and you just keep getting tossed from one wave to another? Always unsettled? Always on the run? Always late for something or behind on something? Always overwhelmed? If...
Recently I found some old pictures of myself from my younger days – my pre-priesthood/pre-marriage days. Nothing is more fun than looking through those old pictures (especially with your kids who think the world wasn’t created until they came into being) and...
The events of the Pascha Week are charged with the emotions of the ultimate love of God to us. It is also filled with the Lord’s broken heart and sad soul, sad to death. These infinite feelings of love of our Lord toward man are beyond the limits of expression. That...
Pre-lent Sunday On Pre lent Sunday, we start to prepare ourselves for fasting and glorifying God. We need to shoe God that we are fasting for him, and not anybody else, as is said in Matthew 6:1-4. We are not trying to show off to the whole world that we are fasting...
The Healing of the Blind Man Excerpt from: The Gospel According to St John – A Patristic Commentary – Part 2 Fr. Tadros Y. Malaty This gospel is read on the ‘Sunday of Baptism’ as it is associated with the mystery of baptism which represents inner insight and...