Sermons & Homilies
There are few things in this world so joyful as the birth of a child. It’s the fulfillment of long expectation and months of patient waiting. The birth of a child carries with it all of the hope and promise of new life.
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Today is the Feast of the Nativity, whereon we commemorate the Incarnation of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ. So great is this feast-day that even centuries of unprecedented godlessness and apostasy have been unable to erase it...
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I’m struck every year at how different Theophany is from the feast of Nativity. These two feast used to be one, and the services for both share many structural similarities, yet for all that, the spiritual character, the flavor, the personality of each is completely different.
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Christ is born! Let us fall down and weep before Him Who has created us! Let us beg for a new beginning! For He receives the humble, He receives the repentant, He receives those who are sick and bound and sinful, in need of a Healer!
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We are on the doorstep of the glorious feast of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ. We have already entered into the Forefeast, the hymns of which fill our ears with the joyous, timeless proclamation of the ever-new Birth of our Transcendent God in human nature.
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