Weekly Sermons

COME O HOLY SPIRIT AND FILL OUR LAMPS
June 23, 2024
Every day when I enter into our Church, the first thing I try to do is go into the altar and make sure the vigil candle is lit. I always want a light burning on the altar table. I fill it with oil and a new wick, so that it stays lit before the tabernacle of Christ, which holds His sacred Body and Blood. Read more »

FATHERS ACTING AS SPIRITUAL HEADS OF FAMILIES
June 16, 2024
My father passed away a year ago. We are celebrating his one year memorial today in our Church here in Webster, and in two weeks in Lancaster, PA. I think of my father often and thank God every day for blessing me with such an incredible role model in my life. Fr. Alexander Veronis exemplified for me all that he ever preached during his 64 years as a priest. Read more »

SHARING THE GOOD NEWS MISSIONS SUNDAY
June 09, 2024
What do you do when you have great news told you? You share it with others. You want others to enter into the joy that you have. You don’t keep it for yourself but you go out and tell others the Good News. Read more »

SHARING THE GOOD NEWS MISSIONS SUNDAY
June 09, 2024
What do you do when you have great news told you? You share it with others. You want others to enter into the joy that you have. You don’t keep it for yourself but you go out and tell others the Good News. Read more »

The Living Water That Quenches our Thirsty Soul
June 02, 2024
Our level of happiness and our level of contentment does not depend solely on what is happening around us but more so on what is happening within us. Read more »

Living Water That Quenches Our Thirsty Soul
June 02, 2024
Our level of happiness and our level of contentment does not depend solely on what is happening around us but more so on what is happening within us. Read more »

OUR RESUME VS OUR EULOGY
May 26, 2024
What’s the difference between a résumé and a eulogy? Well, on this Memorial Weekend Sunday, I want us to reflect on what the difference is between a résumé and a eulogy, and ask ourselves whether we are building up our résumé attributes or our eulogy virtues in our life.  Read more »

Humble Doubts, questions, and skepticism can lead to faith
May 12, 2024
How many of us have some doubts mingled with our faith? How about certain skepticism about fundamental tenets of the faith? For example, what questions arise in your mind when thinking of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead? Or when we think of bread and wine becoming the holy Body and Blood of Christ? Or what happens when we immerse someone in water in the Mystery of Holy Baptism? Read more »

OUR LIFE CHANGES WITH THE RESURRECTION
May 05, 2024
Christ is risen. He’s alive. Darkness did not prevail. Evil did not have the final say. Death is no longer the destiny of all humankind. And the world has changed because of it. If we embrace His Resurrection, our lives will change. Everything in life changes because of Jesus’ Resurrection from the dead! Read more »

HADES CRIES OUT
May 04, 2024
Satan: This is my world! I could not serve in heaven so I rule in hell. I could not serve with joy so I rule in misery. But I had my revenge. I corrupted God’s world, I corrupted his creatures. It was I who made Adam and Eve fall. I have their children, too, MILLIONS upon MILLIONS dead, dead and in darkness. Read more »

Reflecting on Holy and Good Friday
May 03, 2024
He was arrested. He was beaten. He was ridiculed. He endured an unjust trial. He was humiliated. He was hated. He was whipped. He was crucified. In the end, he was killed in a most horrible and painful manner. Read more »

PALM SUNDAY and OUR JOURNEY THROUGH HOLY WEEK
April 28, 2024
(For my sermon on Palm Sunday, I introduced different characters we will encounter during Holy Week through a skit I did with my teenagers of the Sunday School.) Read more »

THE TWO WAYS
April 21, 2024
“There are two ways, my soul, my soul, and they are not the same. One leads to everlasting life. One leads to dust and shame. One leads to dust and shame.” Read more »

OUR JOURNEY OF FAITH
April 14, 2024
“We do not reach the Kingdom of God going from victory to victory but more often we have to journey from defeat to defeat,” notes St. Tikhon of Zadonsk. “After each defeat, however, we don’t bewail our misery but we get back up and continue the battle. We go forward in repentance and humility.” Read more »

DENYING OURSELVES
April 07, 2024
The Lord said: "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” Let’s take a moment and reflect on what Jesus is saying here. It’s pretty radical and counter-intuitive. If any of us want to come after him, to follow him, to become one of His disciples, what’s the first thing we must do? Read more »

Eternal Healing vs. Physical Healing
March 31, 2024
How many of you know someone who is seriously sick? Someone who may have a terminal illness? Do you pray for them? Why? Read more »

CAN WE RECEIVE THE FORGIVENESS OF GOD?
March 17, 2024
The pitcher of water is the same; yet each container receives the water differently. How much each container is filled doesn’t depend on the water being poured, but on the way the container receives the water! Read more »

NOTICING YOUR NEIGHBOR
March 10, 2024
I was at Project Mexico this past week with 18 students from HCHC for their Spring Break. What a meaningful way for college students to spend their spring break – in loving service building a home for a family in need. Read more »

SEEING THE BEAUTY IN THE PRODIGALS OF THE WORLD
March 03, 2024
Do you know that 1 out of 14 school age children in the USA have a parent who is incarcerated?!? 1 out of 14!!! That’s unbelievable! My dear friend, Patrick Tutella, who has worked for many years with prisoners, shared a story about his outreach to school children who have parents incarcerated in prison.  Read more »

IN WHOM DO WE TRUST?
February 25, 2024
“In God we Trust.” It is interesting that this is the official motto of the United States. In a country where many contemporary people like to highlight the separation of church and state, thinking that faith should be kept separate from our civil, secular lives, we still say “In God We Trust.” Read more »

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Yesterday we baptized little Elizabth “Ella” Fahling, the daughter of Olivia and Oliver and granddaughter of Charolotte and Neal Neslusan. As a part of the baptismal service, we walked around the font singing, “As many as have been baptized in Christ have put on Christ. Alleluia.” Read more »


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