+ Christ is the spouse of every soul; the wedding in which they are joined is baptism. The place of that wedding is the Church; the pledge of the wedding is the remission of sins and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. The consummation of the wedding, eternal...
+ Blessed Feast of Theophany You have received money not that you might use it for your body for excess gold and ornaments but that you might release and nourish the poor. Say, therefore, constantly that which you said when you were initiated [into Baptism]: I renounce you,...
+ Christ is Born! Glorify Him! Christ is born; glorify Him. Christ comes from heaven; go out to meet Him. Christ descends to earth; let the heavens rejoice and let the earth be glad, for His sake who was first in heaven and then on earth. Christ is...
+ A Blessed New Year with Christ For our salvation, the Son of God is made the Son of man. Nine months, He awaits His birth in the womb, undergoes the most revolting conditions, and comes forth covered with blood, to be swathed in rags and covered with...
+ He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy, as He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to His seed forever” (Luke 1:54-55). When blessed Mary was making mention of the fathers, she properly represented them by naming Abraham in particular. Although many of...
+ In short, man[kind] is the object of God’s visitations. The Lord, “who alone fashions the hearts of men” (Ps. 33:15), looks down “upon all the inhabitants of the earth” (Ps. 33:14) and surveys their works. From the very first moment of Adam’s fall, God sought after the...
+ As far as the statement of Zacharias is concerned, For your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, we must not be of the opinion that the high priest who had gone in to pray for the people suddenly changed his...
+ “Let us not pass over the very great condescension of our Master and Redeemer, who not only willed to become incarnate for us but also willed to become incarnate at a time when soon after His birth He would be inscribed in the report of a census....
+ “To be healed, a patient must be touched, and humanity had to be touched by Christ. It was not in heaven, but only through the Incarnation that humanity could be healed.” — St. Gregory of Nyssa. Church Announcements: Men’s Meeting: The next Men’s Meeting will be Thursday,...
+ Be assured that God does not need anything of ours. Rather, we stand in need of all things from Him. Thus our thanksgiving adds nothing to Him, but causes us to be nearer to Him…For this reason even the awesome Mysteries, so full of that great salvation,...
