Sermon for the Sunday before Christmas, the Sunday of the all the Righteous of the Old Covenant, on the lections:
Hebrews 11:9–10, 17–23, 32–40 (“…All these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.”)
Matthew 1:1–25 (“The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham: Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers…”)
preached at St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church, Mishawaka, Indiana, December 21st, 2025.
Dear friends, merry Christmas!
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