Subdeacon Emmanuel is the homilist for the Great and Holy Thursday service.

Dn. Christopher is the guest homilist for the Sunday of the Paralytic.

The Holy Myrrh Bearing Women were the first to proclaim the risen Christ to their incredulous male counterparts.

Deacon Christopher is the homilist on Great and Holy Saturday.

Fr. Gregory encourages us to live the joy of the resurrection all year round.

Why did our Lord have to suffer and die? We cannot conclude with the benefit of hindsight that this was simply what He had to endure to make the resurrection possible. Orthodox Christianity insists that there is necessary meaning in both the death and resurrection of our Lord.

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.