St. Andrew's Greek Orthodox Cathedral

Fifth Sunday of Lent St Mary of Egypt We come today to the fifth and final Sunday of Great Lent, before we embark on the journey to Golgotha, which begins

Fourth Sunday of Lent Mark 9:17–31 The story of the child possessed by a demon in today’s Gospel is an image of the spiritual state both of humanity in general

Third Sunday of Lent (Veneration of the Holy Cross) Mark 8:34–38; 9:1 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth […] and the LORD God planted a garden

Judgement (Meatfare) Sunday Matthew 25:31–46 When a person dies, when the soul is separated from the body, we know that the body, because it is composite — composed of various

Sunday of the Prodigal Son Luke 15:11-32 If for some reason the entire Bible, every copy we had of the sacred Gospels, were to disappear, except for the parable of

Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee (Beginning of the Triodion) Luke 18:10-14 Today we begin the period of the Triodion: the period of solemnity, and, I would say, the most

17th Sunday of Matthew (the Canaanite Woman) Matthew 15:21–28 “But he answered her not a word” The meeting of the Lord with the Canaanite woman offers a description of perhaps

16th Sunday of Matthew (Parable of the Talents) Matthew 25:14-30 As we have said on other occasions, man’s role here on earth is to be the priest of creation, the

The Meeting of the Lord in the Temple (Candlemas) In the first Old Testament reading we heard yesterday evening at Vespers, God gives Moses the following commandment: “Sanctify unto Me

15th Sunday of Luke (Zacchaeus) Luke 19:1–10 “The Son of Man came to seek and to save that which hath been lost”. Today’s Gospel shows us how the love of