Bp. Irineos looks at the raising of Lazarus as the culmination of Christ's public ministry as he prepares to enter Jerusalem and be delivered up to be crucified.

Does your Lent look like the rest of your Church year? On this Sunday of the Ladder of Divine Ascent Bp. Irineos asks what hope the faithful in the world can have when even the holy monastics are beset by demons on each rung of the Ladder. Let us look to the sacramental grace conveyed in Christ's Church to sustain us as we fight the passions and grasp for the next rung!

On the 3rd Sunday of Great Lent, the Church pauses for the Adoration of the Holy Cross. Placed at the midpoint of Lent, the Cross stands as a guidepost urging us on to Calvary with our Savior. It also stands as a reminder that our Lenten journey is not an exercise in legalistic rule keeping, but rather the living out of Christ's command, found in today's Gospel reading that if we are to follow him we must deny ourselves and take up our Cross!

On the Second Sunday of Lent, when we commemorate St. Gregory Palamas, Bp. Irineos touches on the saint's theological disputation on the nature of God, and more importantly, why this matter to the faithful as non-monastic, non-theologians living in the world!

On the Sunday of Orthodoxy, Bishop Irineos takes few moments to speak on the iconoclastic heresy, the restoration of icons and their place in Orthodox worship.

On the Triodion Sunday of the Prodigal Son, Bp. Irineos looks at the parable and the significance of the saying that "He came to himself." In this homily we explore how "coming to ourselves", that is returning to our God created nature, is necessary before true repentance may be found.

As we begin the Lenten Triodion, Bp. Irineos discusses the passion of pride and the virtue of the humility, modeled in today's reading of the Publican and the Pharisee.

As Zacchaeus Sunday reminds us of the coming penitential season of Great Lent, Bp. Irineos discusses the mystery of confession and repentance and how we can make a better confession and why this matters for our salvation.

On the Feast of Theophany, Bishop Irineos discusses the Baptism of Christ and why the Church understands water to be a means of conveying grace and blessings. God's use of water to draw His people to Him shows water to be far more than a symbol, and the Church understands it to be a real means of connecting God and the faithful.

After the celebration of the Nativity and the preparation for the Baptism of Christ, Bp. Irineos looks at the scripture for today and comments on how it acts as proof of the humanity of Christ in between two feasts which reveal His Divinity.