“But it is not enough, brethren, only to celebrate ‘The Triumph of Orthodoxy’.   It is necessary for us personally to promote and contribute to this triumph.  And for this we must reverently preserve the Orthodox Faith, standing firm in it in spite of the fact that we live in a non-Orthodox country, and not pleading as an excuse for our apostasy that “it is not the old land here but America, a free country, and therefore it is impossible to follow everything that the Church requires.”  As if the word of Christ is only suitable for the old land and not for the entire world!  As if the Church of Christ is not “catholic”! As if the Orthodox Faith did not ‘establish the universe’!”

~ Homily During Lent

***Now and then we include a particularly thought provoking or inspiring excerpt not from an ‘Elder’***