[Gospel: Matt. 8:28-9:1 (§28)] In the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Dear Father, brothers and sisters: Spraznecom! Happy Feast! For our main Sunday Gospel we hear the story of the healing of the two Gergasenes’ demonaics at the very end of chapter eight of St Matthew’s Gospel. … Read more
Matthew 8:5-13 / Luke 10:38-42, 11:27-28 In the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Dear Father, brothers and sisters: Spraznecom! This Sunday marks the fourth Sunday after Pentecost and the first Sunday of what is popularly known in the west as “Ordinary Time” (Tempus per annum). Since the … Read more
[Romans 5:1-10 / Matthew 6:22-33] In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Dear Fathers, brothers and sisters: Spraznecom! Happy Feast! So, on this Third Sunday of Pentecost, after celebrating the full panoply of saints throughout the whole of the Church Triumphant, and then, last week, celebrating the … Read more
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Dear Father, brothers and sisters: Spraznecom! Happy Feast! This Sunday we are making not one, not two but three commemorations. First, in the liturgical practice of our Church Abroad it is traditional on the second Sunday after Pentecost to honour … Read more