Let us answer His call

Let us answer His call
(The Twenty Eighth Sunday after Pentecost) Luke 14:16-24 Last week, brothers and sisters, I had two unexpected encounters here at our church. Both of them were, in some way, brought about by an unhappy turn of events. I interrupted my regular work activities twice on order to open up the church and witness the drama ...

Cursed is the one who trusts in man

Cursed is the one who trusts in man
(Jer. 17: 5) “Thus the Lord saith: Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the Lord.”  And still the Lord says: “Put no trust in princes, in children of Adam powerless to save.” (Ps. 146, 3) Thus the Lord has said to his ...

Return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning

Return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning
(Joel 2, 12) I do not know if it can be worse for us than it is now. That, worse, it seems to me that could only be finally destroyed. But God do not give us, to be witnesses of greater evil than this which has already happend to us. I also do not know, ...

Why Lord does not the prevent war?

Why Lord does not the prevent war?
The answer to this question I sought where the answers to the many of my questions I seek – in the Scripture. Why war? Because the time for a war comes, when the evil accumulates, as pus under boil and once it must burst. Simply there is a “War time and peace time” (Eccl. 3: 8) ...

Go and do likewise

Go and do likewise
Luke 10:25-37 The Holy Gospel, in Luke 10:25-37, offers many topics to reflect on. Currently one of them seems most prominent to me and it is Christ’s very emphasized appeal to move from words and contemplation to deeds. The holy Evangelists have noted down, for our spiritual growth, a conversation between our Lord and the ...

The basis of primacy

The basis of primacy
Mark 10:32-45 Here we are faced with an answer to a question that any Christian may ask himself or others – whether he is the Pope in Rome who, in his pride, has taken the place of God, or an illiterate shepherd who may not know how to sign his own name. The question is: ...

He is our peace

He is our peace
(Eph. 2: 14 – 22) “For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the wall of separation, having disabled in His flesh the enmity (Eph. 2:14). It is of the Lord Jesus Christ that the holy Apostle Paul speaks in the epistle that we heard at today’s holy ...

Everything in its own time

Everything in its own time
I watch our youth, our boys and girls, at their fullest strength and energy, how carelessly they spend their lives, their days and their years, given from God; how they squander them in vain. When meeting with my parishioners, I see a little girl transformed over night to an adolescent, and to a young woman, ...

“No one can hinder us”

“No one can hinder us; we are stronger than fate,” is the main lyric of what is considered to be a “folk” ditty. I’ll come back to this imbecile poetaster’s oeuvre later. However, it did prompt me to think about what happens to those who are so conceited, plunged so deep in stupidity, that they ...

Abirams, Dathans and their unfortunate brethren

Abirams, Dathans and their unfortunate brethren
All kinds of strange things happen to us, lately more often, and that some of my parishioners ask me, if I knew, and if I met this or that “priest”. They say that this “honor” usually happens to them in bars. They met, they say, that fortunate fellow and that he introduced himself with his ...