A Small, Shallow, Inattentive Life – Sunday’s Homily

The paradox of the Orthodox message concerning the Holy Cross uniquely reveals the deepest weakness of we humans, our self-centered pride. The cure for this deep, human, sickness is the paradox of “if you want to save your life, you have to lose your life.” The Cross of Jesus undoes the slavery of arrogance and pride by killing the ego of human inattentiveness, and burying the old fallen man so that the true man might rise again.