Translating the Tradition
Fr. Justin (Edward) Hewlett
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Our Desert Struggle
So we’re getting to the end of Great Lent, and the Church gives us, on this Sunday, St. Mary of Egypt to think about.I won’t go through the whole of the story of St. Mary of Egypt, but just very…
The First Sin after the Flood
So on this Wednesday of Great Lent, we’re given the story of Noah just after the flood to meditate on. The story is about the first recorded sin after the flood. Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and…
St. Gregory Palamas Sunday
There’s supposedly an ancient Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.” Well, apparently we’ve all been cursed. People are concerned. Some are worried that Islam is encroaching on our…
The Warning and the Nature of the Last Judgment
Those of you who have been coming to St. John’s for a while will know that the Sunday of the Last Judgment and the parable of the rich man and Lazarus are my two least favourite passages on which to…
Waiting
We spend a lot of our lives waiting. And it can be really tough. We’re waiting for justice. We’re waiting for, I don’t know, an appointment at ICBC or something like that. We’re waiting for the…
Zacchaeus, the Publican and the Pharisee, and the Right Response to the Squandering of Our Talents
As an experiment, I thought I’d try getting Google’s NotebookLM AI to summarize my sermon, and I was rather impressed with the following (lightly edited) results:In his sermon for Zacchaeus Sunday,…
Pray and Do Not Lose Heart
So in today’s Gospel reading, our Lord is approaching Jericho, and there’s a blind man sitting by the side of the road. He’s begging, because if you’re blind in those days, they didn’t have a lot of…
The Great Blessing of the Waters
As we’ve been going through Father Alexander Schmemann’s For the Life of the World, one of the things that Father Schmemann is very careful to point out is this dichotomy that we human beings…
The Point of Prophecy
So today, as we get ready for the great Feast of Theophany, we begin with the beginning of the gospel of Mark. And the gospel of Mark begins with prophecy. The beginning of the gospel of Jesus…
Wisdom, Folly, Prophecy, and Free Will
Somewhat similar to the pattern that we see at Pascha (and, indeed, Christmas is for us in many respects a mini Pascha—you’ll notice I’m wearing white), the Sunday after the great feast, we have a…
How Can We Refuse the Heavenly Banquet?
Today’s homily was (for me) relatively short, so, rather than posting the transcript here (the automated version of which is already readily available), I want instead to add an addendum: “the sermon…
What Do We Do When the Days Are Evil?
[The how of all that follows here is outlined in the preceding parts of the homily, in the audio recording. What follows is the conclusion of the matter:]All things are exposed or made manifest by…
Adoration: The One Thing Needful
So on this joyous day of Raissa’s baptism, we have a fairly solemn Gospel reading, in which our Lord tells a parable of a certain rich man, who had lots of stuff—like too much stuff, so he didn’t…
Holiness and Joy
Sources cited:from II Samuel 6:14-22:Then David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was wearing a linen ephod. So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord…
Who Is This Man?
So in today’s gospel reading, we get two stories for the price of one. And these intertwined stories actually are the culmination of this particular section of the Gospel of Luke, which begins with…
Hellfire, Brimstone, and Sodom
So we come again to the story of the rich man and Lazarus, and, since I don’t really want to talk about this story, I feel like that probably means that I should talk about this story. One of the…
Little Children, Love One Another
If our starting point for love as Christians is “love your enemies”, and if our ending point is “love one another as I have loved you”, and if this is supposed to be what characterizes us as Jesus…
Broadening Our Understanding of Repentance
So today I want to draw our attention to one phrase from the Gospel reading, or at least focus in on that, and talk a little bit about repentance.Repentance is one of those words, of course, that we…
Our Most Political Feast
Of all the 12 great feasts of the church—or 17 great feasts, or 17 ranked feasts if you’re following Father Alexander Rentel—this is probably one of the most political. This feast, the Feast of the…
Recognizing Reality in Retrospect
It is the way that things transpire afterwards that reveals the true significance of events; it is in retrospect that we see the hand of God. And where we see the hand of God and how we understand it…
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