This week we discussed overview of the Epistle to the Romans

Watch Fr. Gregory’s Discussion on Romans 2 Part 1

This week we discussed Romans 2 of the Epistle to the Romans

+  He must increase, but I must decrease. What is this? He must be exalted, but I must be humbled. How is Jesus to increase? How is God to increase? The perfect does not increase. God neither increases nor decreases. For if He increases, He is not perfect; if He...

+  Christ says that a lamp is always elevated and put on a stand to be of use to those who see. Let us consider the inference that follows from this. Before the coming of our Savior, the father of darkness, Satan, had made the world dark and blackened all...

+ A Blessed Feast of Theophany  I see many after their baptism living more carelessly than the unbaptized, and having nothing peculiar to distinguish them in their way of life. It is, you see, for this cause, that neither in the market nor in the Church is it possible to...

+ A Blessed Feast of the Nativity   “He was a Baby and a Child, so that you may be a perfect human. He was wrapped in swaddling clothes, so that you may be freed from the snares of death. He was in a manger so that you may be in...

+ A Blessed New Year to All!   Now his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying: “Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, for He has visited and redeemed His people…. (Luke 1:67-68) By His appearance in the flesh, our Lord visited us when we...

+ “And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered…Joseph also went up from Galilee… to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child” (Luke 2:1-5)  “Let us not pass over the very great condescension of our...

+ I will give you another example of the [humble] way of the Lord, which has to do with His Mother, the Most Holy Virgin Mary. She was dedicated to the temple of God from a very young age, and in that temple the Mother of God lived in prayer...