Recent Sermons

And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the high-ways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. + In his hymns on paradise from the middle of the fourth century, Saint Ephrem the Syrian wrote about the new heavens and the new earth in verses that are loaded with symbolic imagery. Drawing on hints from the book of Revelation about the monthly yield of trees in the new Jerusalem, Ephrem describes paradise as a place of perpetual and accelerat

Ascension - Perugino, 1496-98 GRANT, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that since we do believe thy only-begotten Son our Lord Jesus Christ to have ascended into the heavens; so we may also in heart and mind thither ascend, and with him continually dwell + The Feast of the Ascension, which we observed on Thursday, is the occasion for the Church to celebrate the conclusion of the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ and to commemorate his heavenly session, his taking his rightful pos