Homilies

Great and Holy Saturday in the Byzantine Rite: Intellectual elites, so-called, in what we are presently calling the early modern era, flaunted their boldness by proclaiming things like “God is dead”. Personally, I am skeptical that there was any high-minded philosophy behind this provocateuring; it is true, though, that […]

Today is Great and Holy Friday in the Byzantine Rite: To our mind,  tonight’s meditations are upon our darkest encounters with sin and evil. First, we are outraged at Judas’ betrayal of Our Lord, and at the Sanhedrin’s corrupt will to destroy Him, and at the callous perversity of […]

Today is Great and Holy Thursday, in the Byzantine Rite: This ovoid sphere Earth is over four and a half billion years old, by the way we track time. Human beings derive from primates and share one or more common ancestors with great apes including chimpanzees and gorillas. Sanitary […]

Today is Great and Holy Wednesday, in the Byzantine Rite: Is it a heavier burden to stay a path of righteousness, and to be ready and able in any hour to answer God for all our deeds and all our words and thoughts, and for the content of our […]

Today is Great and Holy Tuesday in the Byzantine Rite: Jesus taught a parable about ten virgin brides purchased for a lord. They waited together at the place appointed for their wedding, to all meet their groom together. The groom is delayed in his travel, and doesn’t arrive until […]