Today's sermon is given by Dn. Christopher speaking about Saint Mary of Egypt, one of the greatest examples of personal repentance that we have.

We need the perspective of the Cross in the midst of Great Lent in order to remind ourselves of the goal of that journey that we undertake through fasting, repentance, almsgiving and prayer. It is that we might come to the beginning of Great and Holy Week with a Godly intention to know nothing else but "Christ and him crucified."

According to St. Bede, God uses our suffering to stimulate our fortitude, faith, humility, repentance and vigilance.

The faith that overcomes the world is the true faith, Orthodoxy, not heterodoxy or otherwise believing.

When did fasting begin? Did Jesus start the whole thing off? The righteous and the repentant fasted in the Old Testament. Well, what about Abraham then? The fact is, humankind was taught to fast right from the very beginning, in the Garden of Eden.

In our lives, crucial choices have to be made and upon these choices our eternal destiny depends.

Although commonly known as the parable of the prodigal son this story in the gospel today is misnamed. It should rather be called: “the parable of the merciful Father” for the story concentrates all its attention on the compassion of the father.

Fr. Gregory welcomes Fr. Yves Dubois as the guest preacher today.

How do we react, what do we do when we pray and God doesn't answer?

The aged Simeon and the prophetess Hannah were so incredibly blessed to behold the infant Christ, 40 days after his birth, and receive him into the Temple in Jerusalem.