HOMILIES
The Old City of Jerusalem as seen from Atop Mount of Olives, October 16, 2016 Enlarge Image
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Signs and miracles will certainly aid us in coming to faith and to strengthen our faith. And wisdom and revelation will no doubt help us know God in Jesus Christ better, Ephesians (1:17). At the same time, let us keep in mind the words of the Lord Jesus who himself said to his disciple, Thomas, after His resurrection, "You believe because you see me; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe", John (20:29). Read more »
God can use anyone - good and bad, believers and non-believers - to accomplish His purposes in our lives. He can use the most unlikely people even those who don’t believe in Him to warn us of our wrongdoings, expose our sins, chasten and correct us, and drive us to Christ for forgiveness and grace, for the power is not in the individual but in the God who calls. Read more »
In today’s Gospel, we read about an episode that occurred during the last phase of Jesus’ public ministry. Saint John recounts that some Greeks who had come to Jerusalem to worship at the Passover, approached the Apostles with a request to see Jesus. When they took the Greeks to see Him, Jesus responded by talking about the process of a grain dying in the ground in order to produce many more grains. Read more »