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Who is My Neighbor?

Sermon preached by Subdeacon JD Swartz on Sunday, November 10, 2024 at St. Mary Orthodox Church in Cambridge, MA In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Christ is in our midst! When I volunteered to give the homily today, it was because my mother is in town and I can’t remember the last time she saw me offer a sermon, but it has been quite a

Full Circle

Sermon preached by Fr. Antony Hughes on Sunday, June 6, 2021. I thought this would be a short sermon. It got a little bigger as I wrote it. Jesus spits on the ground and makes a paste and anoints the blind man’s eyes. As we know, scripture is metaphorical. It points to truths that are hidden deep behind the words. Fr. John Behr points us to St. Irenaeus’ interpretation of the healing of the blind