The Benefit of Sorrow.
But people who believe in God should not despond, because through sorrows they receive the rights of sons, without which one cannot enter...
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Serviam
Nov 29, 20233 min
Life Passes Quickly.
The days pass and fly away. The hours run without stopping. In the headlong rush of time the world nears its end. Not one day will...
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Serviam
Oct 20, 20233 min
War is Hell.
An appeal to the world, from Canonical Russian Orthodox Bishop, Metropolitan Luke of Zaporozhye and Melitopol, of Ukraine. Addressed to...
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Serviam
Sep 18, 20234 min
Trials Teach.
May the Lord give us all the spiritual and physical strength to survive these times. Send, O Lord, Thy mercy to every one of us....
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Serviam
Aug 21, 20234 min
The Arena.
I spent my entire life in sickness and sorrows, but without sorrows, how can one be saved? Illness is sent by God in place of and to make...
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Serviam
Jun 13, 20235 min
Sickness Exists Because of Sin.
Sickness exists in the world only because of sin. There would be no sickness at all, neither mental nor physical, if man had not sinned....
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Serviam
Mar 31, 20233 min
Rise. Walk.
"If you will have patience in difficulties, you know the Holy Spirit is within you. If you will also have the strength to be thankful in...
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Serviam
Mar 29, 20233 min
Deeper the Sorrow the Closer is God.
We must have our gaze fixed on heaven. Then nothing here can shake us. When tribulations come of their own accord, do not fear them. ...
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Serviam
Mar 15, 20234 min
All is Gift.
If sickness and suffering can, and should be spiritually transcended and transfigured in Christ, and if they can constitute an ascetic...
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Serviam
Mar 13, 20234 min
Illness unto Salvation.
How to behave during an illness so that it would be unto salvation. Do not panic and do not lose heart during an illness or aging. What...
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Serviam
Feb 24, 20232 min
Dangling by a Thread.
My child, do not forget that we are in this world only temporarily and that our life dangles by a thread and that all the desirable...
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Serviam
Feb 20, 20231 min
A Prepper's Check List.
Freeze dried food, check. Extra batteries, check. Water, check. Gun, Bullets, check, check. Let's see, "What else are we...
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Serviam
Feb 13, 20233 min
The Devil Speaks.
In his own words, he admits his mistakes, his misfortune and his miscalculations. And yet, he does not repent. He will not repent. He...
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Serviam
Feb 8, 20233 min
Remembrance of Death. Hell. Judgement.
The older I grow, the more I perceive the instability, the vanity of earthly things. Oh, why do we trouble ourselves in vain with all...
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Serviam
Feb 6, 20233 min
The Good of Feeling Bad.
We encounter in Christian history, any number of holy people, faced with their own illnesses or the illnesses of those in their care, who...
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Serviam
Jan 18, 20233 min
A Battle of Wills.
My will. Your will. God's Will. In general, do not become irritated when anything is not done in accordance with your will, but learn...
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Serviam
Jan 11, 20237 min
Wounded by Love.
I feel illness as the love of Christ. I often say to Him: ‘My Christ, Your love knows no limits!’ How I am alive is a miracle. (Offered...
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Serviam
Jan 6, 20232 min
Wings of Faith.
When over the gloomy and deep abyss of grief, sorrows suddenly open before us - carry on up - on the wings of faith! Saint Ignatius...
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Serviam
Jan 4, 20231 min
Ever Present Help.
Immanuel. God is with us. Wonderful Counselor. Lord of Life. Lord of All. Prince of Peace. Mighty God - Immanuel. St. Afanasy...
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