Tag: Anna

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  Do You Have A Secret? – A Sermon On Luke 2:22-40

  February 2, 2020

  Many year ago, at the suggestion of my priest, I did some work with a counselor. During one of our meetings the conversation lulled and he asked me a question. “Mike, do you have a secret?” Tears filled my eyes. I had butterflies in my stomach. And my heart was pounding. I nodded, whispered yes,… Read more
• Longing – A Reflection on the Feast of the Presentation, Luke 2:22-40

  February 2, 2011

  The collect and readings for the Feast of the Presentation may be found here. The story of Jesus’ presentation in the temple is found in Luke 2:22-40. —– They met in the temple, Mary and Joseph, Anna, Simeon, Jesus. How did they get there? What brought them to that place of meeting? What brings us Read more
• Feast of the Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Anna and Joachim

  July 26, 2009

  Let us sing praises to Joachim and Anna, the couple honored by God (and they are His kinsmen). They have borne for us the Maiden who in a manner beyond understanding gave birth to Him who though fleshless, became the incarnate to save the world. With her they intercede for our souls. (Toparion of the Read more
• Entering the Temple of the Heart

  February 6, 2009

  If the heart is the most authentic temple of God, the truest dwelling place of God, then it is also our true home. It is the deepest and most authentic part of our humanity, the place of wholeness and integration. “All things are there,” Macarius says of the heart. The heart is not only the Read more
• The Temple of the Heart

  February 2, 2009

  Today, February 2, is the Feast of the Presentation of our Lord in the Temple. The gospel for this feast tells us about Anna, an 84 year old widow, a prophet, who “never left the temple but worshiped there with fasting and prayer night and day” (Luke 2:37). She saw Mary, the Blessed Theotokos, the Read more