Sermons

“Blessed is the Hidden One shining out!” St. Efrem was an ascetic and a poet who lived in the deserts of Syria. Some 1,600 years ago, he...

“Here’s a little boy who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are these for so many?” How much time do we spend stuck in...

“The generous soul will be made rich, and he who waters will also be watered himself” (Pr. 11:25). As a young girl, St. Brigid was renown...

A stunning field of gravity holds the planets around the sun. Its magnetism is so colossal and irresistible that everything within eleven...

“Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil” (Mat. 4:1). Why into the wilderness? In central Greece...

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” The man was blind. A thick blackness engulfed everything. His life was an...

“A new light…cocks were crowing, there was music of hounds, and horns; above all this ten thousand tongues of men and woodland angels and...

With each swing of his hammer, a blacksmith hits precisely where he wants. It is an art nearly as old as history and profound for being...

“’What do you want with us, Son of God?’ they shouted. ‘Have you come here to torture us?’” (Matthew 8:28). They pulled up on the shore...

“He marvelled and said to those who followed him, ‘Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith.” What is faith that...