Aug 18, 2019 | Faith, Sunday Scriptures
IN BYZANTINE CHURCHERS the first Great Feast in the liturgical calendar is the Nativity of the Theotokos (September 8). The feast of her Holy Dormition (August 15), coming at the end of the Church year, brings this cycle to a close. Like a musical masterwork, our...
Aug 13, 2017 | Faith, Sunday Scriptures
WHEN THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH was divided over whose leadership to follow, St Paul asserted his unique role of authority in that Church. It was Paul who had first brought the message of the Gospel to Corinth. In Acts 18 we read how Paul had come from Athens and began...
Jul 28, 2013 | Sunday Scriptures
THE HEALING OF AN EPILEPTIC described in Matthew 17:14-21 took place late in Christ’s public ministry. One indication is that the very next verses speak of Christ warning His disciples about His coming Passion (vv. 22-23). It was only as the time of His earthly...
Aug 5, 2012 | Sunday Scriptures
“IF FATHER ABBOUD HAS ANYTHING and you need it – you can have it.” The saying, common during the depression about the Melkite pastor in Omaha, Nebraska, was reported in his obituary in the Morning World Herald. The writer continued, “He prepared and cooked most of his...
