All That I Have is Yours
We are undoubtedly familiar with the parable associated with this Sunday of preparation for Great Lent, the Prodigal Son. The prodigal...
St Gregory Palamas: from the Homily on the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple
Before Christ we all shared the same ancestral curse and condemnation poured out on all of us from our single forefather, as if it had...
Remember Your People!
I want to continue our reflections in Exodus this week, for there is a lot there to reflect on. Specifically, I want to look at chapter...
Pharaoh’s Hardened Heart
As many of us have been reading through Exodus we have encountered one of the perennial questions raised by the Exodus story, one that...
God vs. Pharaoh
I know a number of you are reading the Bible through this year according the plan I shared at the start of the New Year. If you are then...
Theophany: The Feast of Lights
It is an unfortunate reality that, today, the feast of the Theophany is overshadowed by Christmas. As you probably know Theophany is the...
St John Chrysostom on Reading Scripture
Friends, I am convinced that we - all of us: men, women, and children - need to read the Scriptures more than we do. To that end I am...
St Gregory the Theologian: On the Nativity
Since these things [humanity’s fallen condition; JW] required a greater help, they also obtained something greater. It was the Word of...
“A little Child, God before the ages!”
The above is a translation of the kontakion of the Nativity/Christmas composed by St Romanos the Melodist in the late 5th or early 6th...
St Romanos the Melodist: from the Second Kontakion on the Nativity
The first kontakion of St Romanos the Melodist on the Nativity is well known and much loved. His lesser known second kontakion on the...
