Your Passions Are Your Real Parents | Father Turbo's Homily | 07 Jun 26

Christ says that whoever loves father or mother, son or daughter, more than Him isn't worthy of Him. Most people hear that as some radical statement, but Father Turbo explains that the deeper problem is stranger: many of us have already replaced our real family with something else. Our ideologies become our parents. Our emotions, passions, grievances, and need to be right become our children, and we defend who we are. We obey them, protect them, and spill our lifeblood for them, even when they stand between Christ and us. This challenge is our sickness. All Saints Sunday offers us the medicine. Father Turbo turns to the nameless saints, especially the martyrs of Aiud Prison in Romania. Their bodies were thrown into a pit. Forgotten. Unnamed. But God began to glorify the ones the world tried to erase. The pit became their womb. The saints you don't know outnumber the ones you do. And according to St. Nektarios, they are waiting to be called upon. This homily isn't a homily about becoming impressive; It's about becoming worthy of Christ by becoming unworthy of this world. IC XC « NI KA | ☦︎ꒌ 📍 07 Jun '26 | St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Church | Sunday of All Saints Donations: https://stmaryofegypt.net/give/ 5th Convent of the Mother of God, Seeker of the Lost: http://www.ourladyofthelost.org/    / @ourladyofthelostkc