St. Paul Naples Podcast

November 20, 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. (12:16-21) The church is where you partake in sweet conversation with the heavenly Father and the Most Holy Queen and Mother of God with the angels of the Lord and saints. The church is where we learn to pray and...

November 13, 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. (10:25-37) Struggle for God for His truth with all your soul and mind. We must look upon the love we show our neighbor as love given to Christ himself.   Love is from Christ. Love is through Christ and love is fo...

November 6, 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. (8:41-56 Shed blood and receive the Spirit. Christ will make us whole because the Lord desires to help us, his children. Today go out and touch Christ that he may heal you and give you courage. Today, go fall at hi...

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 awa...

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 g...

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 tak...

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 al...

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...

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 o...

August 14, 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) 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 ce...

August 7, 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. (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 L...

July 31, 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. (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, humil...

July 23, 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. (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 w...

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...