All Saints Homilies
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Episodes
Personal Loyalties (1 Cor 1:10-17)
Christian Basics (1 Cor. 16:13-24)
Luke the Historian
John the Baptist (Mark 1:1-8)
A Ghostwritten Life - St. Anthony of Egypt
Sacred Grammar (2 Tim. 3:10-15)
The Holiness of the Christian Body (1 Cor. 6:12-20)
Judge, Brother, Teacher
A homily on Matthew 25:31-46
Beginning Lent (Romans 13:11-14:4)
The Bearers of the Paralytic (Mark 2:1-12)
New Lifestyle or New Life?
What difference does the message of the resurrection make in the thinking and actual lives of those who believe it?
The Special Group and the Special People in It
The Myrrh-Bearing Women
Mark Grows Up (Acts 15:36-40)
Spiritual Sunspots (Acts 5:1-11)
Ananias and Sapphira's blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.
Holiness and History (Hebrews 11:33-12:2)
Holiness is concrete, corporate participation in Christ's life.
Three Points of Christology (Romans 5:1-11)
Romans 5:1-11
Freedom (Romans 6:18-23)
The Dialectical Structure of History (Romans 10:1-10)
Every summer, my brothers and sisters, in either late June or early July we listen to the first ten verses of Romans 10. This text appears near the middle of Paul's analysis of the dialectical structure of history, which is the subject of Romans 9-11.
The Qualities of Christian Love (Romans 12:6-14)
The Human Soul Confronting the World (2 Cor. 4:6-15)
The Cross and the Flesh (Gal. 6:11-18)
Dedicated Lives (The Presentation of the Theotokos)
Fr. Pat contrasts the childhood dedication and life of Mary with that of Hannibal.
En Garde! (Ephesians 6:10-17)
Putting on the panoply, the full armor of God.
Who is Jesus? (Mark 1:1-8)
Jesus is our Holy One, our Mediator, and our Brother.
To Each and To All (Eph. 4:7-13)
It's Not Over ‘Til It's Over
We imagine that life is like football or basketball. You play until the clock runs out. But life is not like that at all. There is no set time for the clock to run out that you know about.
Both Sides of the Icons
Fr. Pat considers the case for iconoclasm, for the veneration of icons, and the settling of the issue.
The Church: An Audacious Group of Roof Climbers
Mark 2:1-12
A Selective Memory
Most of the sources in Holy Scripture, and most emphatically the Psalms, look upon Israel's time in the desert as a period of unmitigated tragedy. Israel was consistently unfaithful. However, the prophets Hosea and Jeremiah chose to see things differently, which is a source of strength and consolation for us today.