Bulletins and Homilies

Happy Easter to our Orthodox Sisters and Brothers Even as we celebrate our Fifth Sunday of Easter   This great season of celebration from Easter to Pentecost Reflect on the Resurrection, and our own Baptism into our new, divine life We also remember the...

Third Sunday of Easter Luke 24: 35-48 It is NOT often- there is such a clear, consistent theme throughout our readings: ’SIN’ It is easy to focus on this alone and ‘ASK’ the inevitable question: “How do ‘we’…rid ourselves…of our sinfulness?”   BUT, if this is the only...

The Feast of Easter, which we celebrated last weekend, is the most important liturgical celebration of the year, and is based in the central theological concept of Christianity: the death and resurrection of Jesus.  As we come to this weekend, the Second Sunday of...

I remember hearing the story of a woman whose young great-grandson was asking why she had so many wrinkles on her hands. “I’m old,” she told him rather simply. “Do you know what happens when you get old?” he asked. “You die and they bury you in the ground.” Before the...

                GOOD FRIDAY HOMILY 4.2.21    The events of today, Good Friday as we just heard, were the result of blindness, fear, scorn, and hate; a willingness – maybe even an eagerness – of the powerful to draw a line and challenge anyone to cross it, to say both...

Holy Thursday: Evening Mass of the Lord’s SupperSpring, 2021 For additional Homilies and articles by Deacon Jeff, visit his website at www.JoyoftheWord.org Spring is upon us, the cherry trees are in bloom, flowers are growing Many of us are planning flower beds and...