Learning Gratitude
The word “gratitude” and the sense of it run through all the Gospels and all the Epistles. When we think of those who wrote these epistles, and the Saints who after them repeated again and again this...
View ArticleCommitted Prayer
In the Gospel there are two stories about storms on the Sea of Galilee. The Lord in the first one has remained on the shore; in the second one He is together with the disciples. A storm comes down upon...
View Article“We All Are the Three Things Described in the Parable Of The Sower”
How familiar, and how simple seems to us, appears to us today’s parable of the seed and of the sower and yet, how relevant it is to us, and how much more thought we should give to it. We forget the...
View ArticleIf We Were a True Christian Community…
In a secret prayer read by the priest at the beginning of the Liturgy during one of the short litanies it says, using the words of St John Chrysostom, that if two or three agree together in all things,...
View Article“We Should Approach a Person As a Mystery”
We heard today the story of the man born blind. We do not know from experience what physical blindness is, but we can imagine how this man was walled in himself, how all the world around him existed...
View ArticlePrayer and the Absence of God
There is a situation in which we have no right to complain of the absence of God, because we are a great deal more absent than He ever is. At the outset of learning to pray there is one very important...
View ArticlePrayer Must Be an Expression of Our Life
A writer of the nineteenth century has said: “Prayer is about things which never happen and is addressed to one who never answers”. If we put the accent on receiving immediately what we ask for and in...
View ArticleThe Way We Look And See
Gospel of St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verses 22-33 22 “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will...
View Article“We Are Walking on This Sea on Which St. Peter Walked”
Think, I am not an unbeliever, on the contrary, but I believe passionately in the communion with God which is offered us in prayer, in a life worthy of His holiness and His love for us, of all He gives...
View ArticleChrist the King
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. In one of his homilies St. John Chrysostom says that anyone endowed with power can rule, only a king can die for his people. And this we see so...
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