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…

[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…

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…

[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…

Gospel: [Matt. 9:1-8] In the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Dear Fathers, brothers and sisters: Today’s Gospel reading follows directly on from last week’s reading where, if you remember, we were with our Saviour in the country…

Gospel [Matt. 14:22-34 (§59)] In the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Dear Fathers, brothers and sisters: On this Sunday we are still basking in the Uncreated Light which still mystically shines out from Mount Tabor on this final…

Matt. 17:14-23 (§72) In the Name of the Father, and of the son and of the Holy Spirit My dear Father, brothers and sisters: Happy Feast! In today’s resurrectional Gospel reading from chapter 17 we are a few chapters further on from chapter 14’s story of the…

Gospel [Matt. 18:23-35 (§77)] In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Dear father, brothers and sisters: In today’s Resurrectional Gospel we leave the miracles, exorcisms and healings, the signs and wonders which we have encountered…

Gospel: [Matt. 19:16-26 (§79)] In the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Dear father, brothers and sisters: Spraznecom! In today’s Gospel reading, as with our Resurrectional Gospel of last week, we do not hear of another miracle or…

Matt 21:33-42 (§87) In the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Dear Fathers, brothers and sisters: nd Spraznecom! Happy Feast! This weekend we have had one of those holy weekends with the Feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God yesterday…

Gospel: Mark 8:34-9:1 (§37); Matt. 22:2-14 (§89) In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Dear Fathers, brothers and sisters: Happy Feast! Spraznecom! This morning with the Precious and Life-Giving cross infront of us, we hear another…

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Dear Fathers, brothers and sisters: Spraznecom! Happy Feast! This Sunday after several weeks of hearing our Lord’s parables we finally transition from the Gospel of Matthew that we have been…

Gospel [Luke 19:1-10 (§94) In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Dear Father, brothers and sisters: Happy Feast! At last we hear the reading from St Luke’s Gospel of Zacchaeus climbing the Sycamore Tree to see Christ and we know…

Gospel: Luke 18:10-14 (§89) In the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Dear Father, brothers and sisters: n Spraznecom! Happy Feast! So dear ones, we now come to the very start of the Lenten Triodion and begin a journey which will take…