St. Paul Naples Podcast

Saint Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church, Naples Fl

Fr Paul Girgis, Parish Priest

https://stpaulnaples.org

Today's reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (16:19-31)

Our Savior teaches us even those suffering…the good things they will enjoy on accounts of the sufferings they will patiently endure in this life. The Lord teaches us those that endure to the end shall be saved and what awaits those who endure patiently to the end.

October 16, 2022 - Saint Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church, Naples Fl

Fr Paul Girgis, Parish Priest

https://stpaulnaples.org

Today's reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (8:5-15)

There are 3 things concerning being saved. Let this be you. Keep the word of God. Bring forth fruit, do good deeds. Do so with patient endurance.

Saint Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church, Naples Fl

Fr Paul Girgis, Parish Priest

https://stpaulnaples.org

Today's reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (10:38-42, 11:27-28)

Go home and pray to the Mother of God who is most blessed because she is the one above all human beings who has actually heard the word of God and kept it better than anybody else. 

Saint Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church, Naples Fl

Fr Paul Girgis, Parish Priest

https://stpaulnaples.org

Today's reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (6:31-36)

Become like the Lord in your love. The Gospel must inspire and encourage us to deny ourselves to do what the Lord has commanded us to do, to become the divine likeness we are created in. Become like God in your divine grace and love. 

Saint Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church, Naples Fl

Fr Paul Girgis, Parish Priest

https://stpaulnaples.org

Today's reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (5:1-11)

If we ignore the Christian struggle which is to be quiet, we will be left exhausted, discouraged, and with empty nets. The struggle is real. The toiling and intense laboring is real. We have to keep going. We have to take care of our business. But if we fall short, repent, start over, and come to confession. Ask the Lord for His strength, for His forgiveness, for His help. Pray for God’s guidance. Ask yourself what is most pleasing to God. Watch what kind of peace and happiness comes from this. 

Saint Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church, Naples Fl

Fr Paul Girgis, Parish Priest

https://stpaulnaples.org

Today's reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Mark. (8:34-38; 9:1)

A Christian is one who imitates Christ not just when it convenient but throughout life. 

Prayer:

Lord, in spite of all my weaknesses, in spite of all my shortcomings, in spite of all my struggles, in spite of all my sinfulness, I love you and I wish to love you better, and I wish to love You more. And as an expression of my love, I try to do Your commandments and Your holy will. I try to do what You want me to do and what You have planned for me in my life. And it depends on You Lord whether you will give me Your salvation and whether You will give me your grace. 

Amen

September 11, 2022

Saint Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church, Naples Fl

Fr Paul Girgis, Parish Priest

https://stpaulnaples.org

Today's reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (10:38-42, 11:27-28)

Go home and pray to the Mother of God who is most blessed because she is the one above all human beings who has actually heard the word of God and kept it better than anybody else. 

Saint Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church, Naples Fl

Fr Paul Girgis, Parish Priest

https://stpaulnaples.org

Today's reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew. (18:16-26)

If you think you have done it all, you haven’t finished yet. There is still more to do. Christ came free us, to illuminate our life. Detach yourself from the things that separate you from Christ. 

Saint Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church, Naples Fl

Fr Paul Girgis, Parish Priest

https://stpaulnaples.org

Today's reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew. (18:23-35)

May we in our love for Christ and our obedience in his simple commandment remove our self-love out of the way and place humility right there in the forefront of our minds and manifest it in our life so we can forgive all the people around us so our heavenly Father can do the same to us. 

August 21, 2022 | Saint Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church, Naples Fl

Fr Paul Girgis, Parish Priest

https://stpaulnaples.org

Today's reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew. (17:214-23)

What we need is fervency. We need more soul in what we say. A little bit of faith and the mountains can move as our Savior said. Do we feel wobbly sometimes? Wobbly with the temptation and chaos of the world? Steady yourselves through fervent prayer. 

Submit Yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

James (4:7)

August 14, 2022 / Saint Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church, Naples Fl

Fr Paul Girgis, Parish Priest

https://stpaulnaples.org

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Today’s reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (10:38-42; 11:27-28)

Theotokos reflects the light of her son, the son of righteousness. We should all feel so blessed and so full of joy to be able to celebrate this incredible feast of the Mother of God falling asleep, her dormition. Where the door passed through the door of this life into eternity. Where today the throne of God assents to the throne of God. What more is there to say to her than rejoice!

August 7, 2022 / Saint Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church, Naples Fl

Fr Paul Girgis, Parish Priest

https://stpaulnaples.org

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Today’s reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew. (14:14-22)

Learn to love the spiritual labor. Learn to love the spiritual struggle and to raise your thoughts to Godly contemplations. Think about the Lord. Think about the life to come. When we do so, the right things happen; we encounter Christ and receive his salvific blessings.

July 31, 2022 / Saint Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church, Naples Fl

Fr Paul Girgis, Parish Priest

https://stpaulnaples.org

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Today’s reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew. (9:27-35)

Christ is always the answer. No one or nothing else will deliver us the fulfillment of our life except for the Lord. We need to have faith, humility, and trust in him. This is all he seeks from you, your cooperation. May we keep the door of our soul open to him and thirst after him in order to be changed by him.

July 23, 2022 / Saint Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church, Naples Fl

Fr Paul Girgis, Parish Priest

https://stpaulnaples.org

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Today’s reading is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew. (12: 6-14)

We learn that we can look for God’s help in our suffering only when we have faith and only when we have a  desire and resolve to struggle. Only when we have a willingness to make some little effort to embrace the Lord and to draw and stay close him to us so he may always be in our midst. 

July 17, 2022 / Saint Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church, Naples Fl

Fr Paul Girgis, Parish Priest

https://stpaulnaples.org

On the Sunday that falls from the 13th to the 19th of the present month, we chant the Service to the 630 Holy and God-bearing Fathers who came together for the 4th Ecumenical Council who assembled in Chalcedon in 451, to condemn Eutyches, who taught that there was only one nature, the divine, in Christ after the Incarnation, and Dioscorus, Patriarch of Alexandria, who illegally received Eutyches back into communion and deposed Saint Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople, who had excommunicated Eutyches.