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The Sunday of Orthodoxy

March 20, 2024

(A sermon for the First Sunday in Lent) Today, in addition to observing the First Sunday of Lent, we celebrate the Sunday of Orthodoxy – a good time for us to reflect on the significance of the Orthodox faith, the faith that should always guide our lives. Our celebration today recalls a time, over a […]

Filed Under: Sermons by Fr. Nicholas Alford

The Wedding at Cana

January 27, 2024

A Sermon for the Third Sunday after Epiphany  — Today, as we continue in the season of Epiphany, we are presented with the story of Jesus’ first miracle. On the surface it is a very nice story about a wedding, and avoiding a social faux pas — running out of wine in the midst of […]

Filed Under: Sermons by Fr. Nicholas Alford

A Sermon for the 18th Sunday after Pentecost

October 22, 2023

Our Gospel reading today presents us with a story of friends of someone in need, coming to encounter the power and authority of God, lovingly manifested in forgiveness and healing. We are told that Our Lord Jesus Christ crossed over the Sea of Galilee in a boat and entered into his own city – meaning […]

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Nativity of St. John the Baptist

June 24, 2023

While we celebrate the lives of most of the saints on the day of their deaths, or rather on the day that they entered into the life to come, we also celebrate their birthdays in the church calendar: the birthday of Our Lord (on December 25th), of His blessed Mother (on September 8th), and of […]

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A Sermon for Palm Sunday

April 17, 2022

“Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!” Today, with our celebration of Palm Sunday, we enter into Holy Week. This week, beyond all other, is a time of revelation, of showing us all about God and all about ourselves. This week we will see revealed before us […]

Filed Under: Sermons by Fr. Nicholas Alford

A Sermon for Low Sunday

May 9, 2021

Today, in the Church, we have another one of those days with many names: first today is called Low Sunday in contrast with the high of Pascha. Then Quasimodo Sunday – from the Latin incipit for today’s introit (where we heard that like new born babes we are to desire the spiritual milk of God’s […]

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A Sermon for the Third Sunday of Advent

December 15, 2020

  St. Paul lived in Rome for two years under house arrest. He had been arrested in Jerusalem, accused of starting a riot. When he learned of a plot to assassinate him on the way to his trial in Jerusalem, he invoked his rights as a Roman citizen and appealed to Caesar, meaning that he […]

Filed Under: Sermons by Fr. Nicholas Alford

A Sermon for the Second Sunday in Lent – in time of a pandemic

March 15, 2020

To put it mildly, we live in an uncertain time, perhaps a historic time. A generation from now, students may look back in their history text books and see that this was a time of a severe medical crisis across the entire world, and a time of world-wide panic and confusion. Of course, in addition […]

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