Homily on the 5th Sunday after Pentecost. “What do you want with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torture us before the appointed...

Homily on the fourth Sunday after Pentecost. Romans 6: 18-23; Matthew 8: 5-13. Life can be complicated with many challenges for us as...

Open our eyes that we may see you, our ears that we may hear you, and our hearts that we may love. The Lamp of one’s body are the eyes –...

Homily on the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost. “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.” Mt 4:19 Several weeks ago, my wife Presbytera...

The liturgy began with some prayers and then the Gospel was read. It spoke of the apostles and when Jesus cast out some demons. Father...

Homily on the 1st Sunday after Pentecost. Hebrews 11: 33-12:2; Matthew 10: 32-33, 37-38; 19: 27-30. Today we live in an age where it is...

Too much babbling of prayers and not much listening to God trying to reason with us! The Lord then spoke onto them saying: “I am the...

The evening began with some simple prayers. Then, Divine Liturgy began and the congregation saw the clergy’s new vestments for the first...

Homily on the 7th Sunday after the Lord's Glorious Pascha. After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the hour...

John 9: 1-38; Acts 16: 16-34. In today’s Gospel, we have recounted for us the healing of the blind man who had been blind from birth. In...

THE HALF BREEDS THAT TEND TO BE SHUNNED BY THE PURISTS When the people of Samaria gathered to greet him, they asked that he stay, for...

... The Lord's ascension celebrated with the faithful in commemoration of the Lord's promise to keep watch and pray - further exhorted by...

Homily on the fourth Sunday of the Lord’s Glorious Pascha. Christ is Risen from the dead/ trampling down death by death/ and upon those...

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ITALY EXARCHATE OF THE ITALIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH AN EXARCHATE OF THE AUTONOMOUS METROPOLIS OF WESTERN EUROPE AND...

Homily on the 3rd Sunday after Pascha Acts 6: 1-7; Mark 15: 43-16:8. This Sunday, the third Sunday after Pascha, the Holy Church...

Amazing Grace When the apostles who had previously beheld the risen Lord in the flesh related their testimony to Didimus (the twin) the...

Homily on the Sunday of the Lord’s Holy and Glorious Pascha. Christ is Risen from the dead/ Trampling down death by His mortal death/ and...

Homily on the Triumphant Entry of our Lord and Saviour into Jerusalem. This Sunday we celebrate the beginning of Holy week with the...

THE METROPOLIS OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA INVITES ALL TO COME AND PRAY WITH US DURING HOLY WEEK TO REDISCOVER THE ANCIENT...

+OUR CANONICAL CHURCH + OUR ECCLESIAL HISTORY + OUR SPIRITUAL HOME+ THE CHURCH IN CLASSIS – SOUTH EAST OF RAVENNA “You are Peter the...