Will The Soul Accept or Reject Suffering?
The soul has to make a choice, and the outcome will either break it into pieces or enable it to sail to its destination in God....
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Serviam
- Jun 27, 2022
- 2 min
Holy Unction.
The great public prayer of the Church for those who are ill is the Service of Holy Unction. This Service, is long and exceedingly rich in...
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Serviam
- Jun 26, 2022
- 3 min
Great Is Your Reward.
Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they...
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Serviam
- Jun 24, 2022
- 2 min
Antidote for Anxiety. (part two)
It is impossible to escape tribulation in this world but the man who is given over to the will of God bears tribulation easily, seeing it...
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Serviam
- Jun 22, 2022
- 4 min
Antidote for Anxiety. (part one)
How are you to know if you are living according to the will of God? He who lives according to God's will has no cares. The soul given...
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Serviam
- Jun 20, 2022
- 2 min
Kill Your Will.
Set aside your wish to find peace on this earth pre-maturely in order to receive it in time. That is, upon our death. Put to death your...
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Serviam
- Jun 19, 2022
- 4 min
Blood Becomes Seed.
The blood of martyrs, is the seed of the church. -Tertullian Sunday of All Saints - 1st Sunday after Pentecost. On this day, the Sunday...
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Serviam
- Jun 17, 2022
- 1 min
The Finish Line.
Do not forget your goal, my child. Look into the heavens and see the beauty that awaits us. Elder Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona What...
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Serviam
- Jun 13, 2022
- 1 min
In Brevity is Beauty.
Within our culture of noise 24/7 - a paradox occurs. Counterintuitively what garners the most impact is not who is the loudest, or talks...
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Serviam
- Jun 10, 2022
- 1 min
Welcome Waves.
When waves of fear and uncertainty rise up, when swells of suffering taunt us - bodily illness can in no way harm us. If our soul is...
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Serviam
- Jun 10, 2022
- 2 min
Door Dash Doesn't Deliver.
Eternity. One must inherit it. We need patience. No one is as dangerous to us as we ourselves, so remain a servant of God in the short...
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Serviam
- Jun 8, 2022
- 2 min
The Blessing of Being Sick.
Illness, then, is only evil in appearance. It can even constitute a blessing for man, in the sense that, if one uses it appropriately,...
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Serviam
- Jun 6, 2022
- 2 min
Leave it All to God.
Say, "My God, I leave my illness in Your holy Hands, and whenever You - Who love me so much - want to heal me, I will also want it then."...
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Serviam
- Jun 5, 2022
- 2 min
This is Eternal Life.
Sunday of the 318 Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council - Nicea 325AD Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and...
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Serviam
- Jun 3, 2022
- 3 min
Shine - Like the Stars of Heaven.
And let them see their children’s children, like a newly-planted olive orchard, around their table; that, obtaining favor in Your sight, ...
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Serviam
- Jun 2, 2022
- 2 min
Harbor for Our Hope.
No matter where one lives on earth, trials must be endured. There is no escape from difficulty, pain and suffering. However, our...
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Serviam
- Jun 1, 2022
- 2 min
I Have Found a Physician.
St. Ambrose of Milan attributed this prayer to the Apostle Matthew, upon the occasion of the Apostle's conversion. "As Jesus went on from...
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Everything in this life passes away.
Only God remains.
Only He is worth struggling towards.
We have a choice: to follow the way of this world, of the society that surrounds us, and thereby find ourselves outside of God, or to choose God who calls us and for Whom
our heart is searching.
+ Blessed Fr. Seraphim (Rose) of Platina
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