Loving Union with God.
First of all it must be understood that it is the duty of all Christians - especially of those whose calling dedicates them to the...
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Serviam
- Feb 24
- 2 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
- Jan 30
- 6 min
The Prayer.
Of all prayers, this is The Prayer. The Jesus Prayer. It is called “the lifeline of the soul and of the body”, “the foundation of...
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Serviam
- Jan 20
- 3 min
Is Piety Possible? (Part 1)
Make a firm resolution to do everything for the Lord, to receive everything from His Fatherly Hand, and make a special resolution to do...
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Serviam
- Dec 28, 2022
- 2 min
Death My Friend.
Terrible is the approach of death to people who are passionate, sinful and weak, who have not tried to live blamelessly in this vain...
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Serviam
- Oct 31, 2022
- 3 min
Do not React.
Do not resent. Do not react. Keep inner stillness. These three spiritual principles, or disciplines, are really a summation of the...
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Serviam
- Oct 28, 2022
- 3 min
Do not Resent.
Do not resent. Do not react. Keep inner stillness. These three spiritual principles, or disciplines, are really a summation of the...
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Serviam
- Aug 10, 2022
- 4 min
"Lord, where are You?"
Is God absent or present? Is He near at hand, or remote and withdrawn? It’s a matter of how you look at it. Elder Aimilianos of...
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Serviam
- Jun 29, 2022
- 2 min
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 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
- May 27, 2022
- 2 min
The Purpose of Illness.
"Earthly life—this brief period—is given to man by the mercy of the Creator in order that man may use it for his salvation, that is, for...
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Serviam
- May 18, 2022
- 2 min
Holy Orthodoxy on Modern Medicine.
When St. Basil the Great was asked if going to a doctor and taking medicine were in keeping with ways of piety, he replied: Saint Basil...
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Serviam
- May 2, 2022
- 2 min
God Has Not Forgotten You.
God did not come into the world to eradicate suffering. He did not come even to explain it. God came into the world to fill human...
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