Sermons & Homilies
The names of the Holy Glorious Pre-eminent Apostles Peter and Paul are sweet food to the tongue which utters them. This food is most nourishing for the heart. Through their names we remember their persons. Through their persons our hearts are impressed upon by their lives, deeds, and words. Not only this, but by their names we are able to impress upon their hearts our needs and petitions, if we invoke them with humility, faith, fervency, and honesty. Let us first remember them that we may move our hearts to call upon them and move their hearts towards us.
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Today, Our Lord Jesus Christ fulfills His promise to send the Holy Spirit into the world. The dust He once formed in the beginning to make man and into which He breathed the Breath of Life fell through the deception of the devil. Christ took upon Himself this dust, becoming man, uniting it to Himself, to deliver us from bondage to the devil. And through sending down the Holy Spirit, He makes man, once fallen and worse than dirt, to become god.
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Today’s Feast can only be truly honored by silent wonder. We see the Lord God, clothed in our human nature, ascending beyond the heavens, and seating us in Himself upon the pre-eternal throne which He never left and forever shares with the Father and the Spirit.
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Christ is risen! My brothers and sisters, what a blessed and glorious thing is the gift of light! At the beginning of the creation of the world, the very first words spoken by the Lord God were precisely: “Let there...
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Who has ears to hear the words of God? God is ever speaking to us, but how often do we pay attention? How often does the message really sink in? In the prophet Isaiah, God says, My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways.
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