Saint Herman Orthodox Church

This Sunday we read the gospel from Luke 17:12-19 about the ten lepers who asked Jesus to heal them when he entered into a certain village. Jesus instructed them to show themselves to the priests, which they did and were healed. Then one of the ten turned back to thank Jesus and glorify Him and he was a Samaritan, but the other nine did not. ... https://www.sthermansoca.org/spirituality/st-nicholas/

The Gospel for this Sunday November 29th, is the reading for the 10th Sunday of Luke and speaks about Jesus' healing of a crippled woman. Throughout the earthly ministry of Our Lord, Jesus often met with people who had various physical handicaps. We know from the various gospels read during the year about the blind beggar on the road to Jericho (Luke 18:35-43), the paralyzed man who was carried by his four friends to Jesus (Mark 2:1-12), the man with the paralyzed hand (Mark 3:1-6) and many others.... https://www.sthermansoca.org/sp/healing-the-crippled-woman/

Shortly after the beginning of the Nativity Fast, we Orthodox Christians celebrate the second great feast of the Theotokos - The Entrance of the Holy Theotokos Into the Temple November 21. The first feast of the liturgical year, was the Birth of the Holy Theotokos on September 8th and now it is indeed fitting that our thoughts now at the start of Advent turn to the Mother of God, whose humble and silent expectation should be the model of our own expectation and anticipation of Our Lord's coming.... https://www.sthermansoca.org/spi/entrance-of-the-theotokos/

Today November 15th, we hear in Church the Gospel for the 8th Sunday of Luke, the Parable of the Good Samaritan, which falls usually just at the beginning of the Nativity Fast (Advent). Life in our time has become too fast, too impersonal, too busy, too big, for people to help each other, whether in emergency or day-to-day cases. However, there are examples to show that every age has those who respond to cases of suffering and need and those who are indifferent to the hurts and pains of others.... https://www.sthermansoca.org/spirituality/good-samaritan/

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