Homilies

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Christ Enters Jerusalem, Coptic Icon, Modern

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All of Matthew’s Gospel, up until this point of the entry, on a donkey, into Jerusalem, has been something of a didactic preparation/explanation of the Kingdom of Christ. And from Chapter 21, through the rest, all of this Gospel takes place in Jerusalem. And now it transforms itself; it becomes a sacramental presentation […]

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Church of St Anne, Berlin, NH

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Translation of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews.

Brethren, Christ, being come an high priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, that is, not of this creation: Neither by the blood of goats, or of calves, but by his […]

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Abraham Bids Farewell to Hagar and IshmaelOctateuch, s. XII. Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, gr. 746, f. 80r

Translation of the Epistle for the Fourth Sunday of Lent:

Brethren: It is written that Abraham had two sons, one from the slave-girl the other from his free-born wife. The son of the slave-girl had been born according to the flesh, but the son of […]

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Translation of the Epistle for the Third Sunday of Lent. 

Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness. But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, […]

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Quinqugesima Sunday

A continuation of the Holy Gospel, according to St. Luke.

At that time, Jesus took unto Him the 12 men and said to them, “Behold we go up to Jerusalem and all things shall be accomplished which were written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man. For He shall be delivered to the Gentiles and shall be mocked and […]