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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- Jan 18
- 3 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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- Jan 9
- 1 min
Shine. Shine. O New Jerusalem.
The most perfect prayer. "...through the Cross Joy has come to all the World..." It is the privilege of the Orthodox Deacon to pray this...
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- Dec 20, 2022
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Later Than You Think.
Grant that my sickness may be the means of my true repentance and amendment of my life according to Thy will, that I may spend the rest...
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- Nov 2, 2022
- 3 min
Do be Still.
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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- Oct 19, 2022
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Mother, Overshadow Us.
The Virgin today doth stand forth within the Church, and with the choirs of the Saints invisibly for us doth pray to God: angels with...
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- Sep 20, 2022
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The Death of Fear.
Be at peace. Put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations. Do not look forward in fear to those changes and struggles in life, rather...
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- Aug 15, 2022
- 5 min
He (still) Makes House Calls.
Christ visits us. He is with us. He is in us. He heals us. We pray in the Trisagion prayers, “Holy One visit and heal our infirmities...
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- Aug 3, 2022
- 3 min
Have You Seen Incense?
No one knows about it while it’s lying in the drawer. No one cares. But if you purposely place it on a red hot glowing coal, it fills the...
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- Jul 11, 2022
- 4 min
Paradise Present.
The Lord gave us the Holy Spirit, and the man in whom the Holy Spirit lives feels that he has paradise within him. Saint Silouan the...
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- Jul 7, 2022
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Prayers of Thanksgiving, Protection, Deliverance
Almighty God, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, come to my help and deliver me from this difficulty that besets me. I believe...
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- Jul 5, 2022
- 3 min
Orthodox Prayers in Time of Sickness
O Lord, visit me in my suffering, and grant me grace and strength to bear this sickness with which I am afflicted, with Christian...
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Apr 4, 2022
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You Are With Me.
...though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow...
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- Mar 30, 2022
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Strong Prayer.
The power of prayer. Who can deny it? Knowing we have Our Father who loves us, hears us, is with us, and who answers our prayer. ...
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