English Homily- Fifth Sunday of Elijah- Fr. Mark Owdeesh
An upside-down turtle cannot right itself without outside help — and neither can we. The father in the gospel could not heal his son alone, and even the apostles, extensions of Christ's own authority, fell short because they had not stayed close enough to the source. We live in the same irony today: sharing everything on social media yet more isolated than ever, absorbing content about self-improvement while refusing to open up to anyone about what is actually wrong. The healing begins the moment we step outside ourselves and say we cannot process this alone. Practically, that means two things: sitting before God with a journal and laying everything out honestly in the light, and seeking guidance from trusted people. We are not passive canvases — we must cooperate. But the first step is simply admitting we are stuck.
21 Sept 2026
Good for Nothing
English Homily- Fourth Sunday of Elijah- Fr. Peter Patros
We spend our entire lives trying to be valuable — through education, careers, appearance, and social standing — running a race that never ends and is riddled with more failure than success. So when Jesus says "good for nothing," it lands like a gut punch. But he says it only after calling us salt of the earth and light of the world. The salt that loses its flavor is not worthless by nature — it has simply forgotten its purpose. When we chase the world's standards of value, the world will use us, step on us, and forget about us. God never does that. He called us very good before we accomplished anything and after we did the worst we could imagine. We do not have to earn anything before God — but he does ask us to become what he has already called us to be.
15 Sept 2026
Slow to Believe
English Homily- Third Sunday of Elijah- Fr. Peter Patros
The two disciples walking to Emmaus were not just sad — they were walking away, in the wrong direction, with hope in the past tense. They had expected a king on a throne and got a man on a cross, and they could not see how those two things fit together. Jesus does not abandon them for going the wrong way. He walks the entire road with them, calls them foolish not for lack of knowledge but for not yet putting the pieces together, and patient with their slow hearts. The cross did not remove suffering — it put the resurrection on the other side of it, giving suffering a meaning it never had before. And it is only at the breaking of the bread that their eyes open. The same Jesus who walked beside crushed hope on the road to Emmaus is the one who breaks bread on this altar — and he is capable of turning a heart from slow and foolish to burning.
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