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His Appearing in the Liturgy

09/04/2026

~By Fr. Stephen Freeman, January 20, 2025 Standing in the Church, listening to the choir or chanter sing while priest censes the icons, words swirl with the rising smoke and connections and associations multiply as words evoke images and images evoke thoughts: participation, coinherence, incarnation, mystery, timeless form and formless time, fullness and emptiness, fulfillment and… And then the thought comes, full-formed or teasing, but it arrives. Not as a result of logic or reason,

Love Never Fails

09/03/2026

Published by Pemptousia Partnership on December 15, 2019 Fr. Andreas Agathokleous It can be readily understood that, when we get to know a person and our hearts combine, we are enthused at this and overjoyed. It’s the practical implementation of our reason for being, which consists in the image with which God has endowed us. This means that we can unite among ourselves in the same manner as the Triune God, Who is a communion of Persons, which

On Earth as it is in Heaven

09/02/2026

Sermon preached by Dn. James Wilcox on Sunday, October 6, 2024 Scripture Readings from Luke 7:11-17 and 2 Cor. 6:16-18; 7:1 When Jesus meets the funeral procession spoken of in today’s Gospel reading, He does what we commonly see Him do when encountering a person grieving the loss of a family member. He has compassion on them. For review, Jesus and the disciples are entering the ancient city of Nain, while a group of mourners

Parish Community Letter – September 2026

09/01/2026

Dear Saint Sophia Parishioners and Guests, HAPPY ECCLESIASTICAL NEW YEAR!!! With the blessings of Father Steve and Father Gregory, the Parish Council is providing this update. We have a very busy Saint Sophia Fall Planned!!! LITURGICAL CALENDAR: Every Sunday 8:30 AM Orthros and 10:00 AM Divine Liturgy. Please see the website, website calendar, bulletins, and emails for other services and updates. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Sunday, September 13, 2026: Father Steve will celebrate his last Orthros and

Good Beginnings

09/01/2026

Sermon preached by Dn. Jeff Smith on Sunday, September 1, 2024 Good morning! Christ is in our midst. In today’s gospel, Jesus introduces himself in Nazareth among the people where he had been brought up. He proclaims that the prophecies he reads to the congregation in Isaiah have been fulfilled in their midst. He reads, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.

Reading Scripture in the Kingdom

08/31/2026

~By Fr. Stephen Freeman, July 2, 2025 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (Joh 3:6) It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. (Joh 6:63) Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. (1Co 15:50) The

Commemoration of the Beheading of the Holy and Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John

08/29/2026

The divine Baptist, the Prophet born of a Prophet, the seal of all the Prophets and beginning of the Apostles, the mediator between the Old and New Covenants, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, the God-sent Messenger of the incarnate Messiah, the forerunner of Christ’s coming into the world (Isaiah 40:3; Mal. 3: 1); who by many miracles was both conceived and born; who was filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in

Nostalgia for Paradise

08/28/2026

~By Fr. Stephen Freeman, July 9, 2025 This is an excerpt from the small book, Nostalgia for Paradise, by Dr. Alexander Kalomiros. It’s good for the soul. When the ascetical life of a Christian and the privations that he imposes upon himself are beyond the measure of grace that he has been given, a void is created in his soul. Either it will lead him to sin, or it will make him perverse, proud, hard, and

Saint Phanourios

08/27/2026

Commemorated on August 27 We know nothing for certain about the background of Saint Phanourios, nor exactly when he lived. Tradition says that when the island of Rhodes had been conquered by Moslems, the new ruler of the island wished to rebuild the walls of the city, which had been damaged in previous wars. Several ruined buildings were near the fortress, and stone from these buildings was used to repair the walls at the end of

Miraculous Love

08/26/2026

Sermon preached by Fr. Antony Hughes on Sunday, July 21, 2024 The Lord seems to have been very mindful of the people he met. Men, women, children, the rich and poor, the well-positioned and even more the lowly, oppressed, needy and foreigners. The Mosaic Law was the overshadowing context of Jewish life and, after all, Jesus was a Jew, but people were more important to him than the Law. Today he meets a Centurion, a

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