Violence is Abortion.
What cause could be more outrageous than violence — fatal violence — against the most helpless members of our human community? If that...
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Serviam
Jan 52 min
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
Dec 30, 20234 min
New Year. Old Prayer.
The Jesus Prayer... Every true Christian must always remember and never forget that he needs to be united with the Lord and Savior with...
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Serviam
Dec 9, 20232 min
Light in Darkness.
The existence of Russia is of a great spiritual and cultural value – not only for you and me, but for all humanity. The special value of...
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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
Nov 6, 20231 min
Remember Death.
The life of man hangs by a hair. At every step, our life hangs in the balance. How many millions of people woke up in the morning, never...
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Serviam
Oct 30, 20231 min
The Last True Rebellion.
“The world” is the general name for all the passions. When we wish to call the passions by a common name, we call them the world. But...
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Serviam
Oct 27, 202313 min
Hollow American Finds Holy Orthodoxy.
hollow /hŏl′ō/ adjective 1. Having a cavity, gap, void or space within. This re-published post is longer than normal. But it's...
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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
Oct 17, 20234 min
Wrecked by the World Wide Web.
Living in this age of information consumption places new burdens on us as humans, subjecting us to a different form of enslavement....
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Serviam
Oct 3, 20232 min
Afflictions are Salvific.
Entrust your health to God. If your illness or the doctor imposes something on you, accept it with the hope that through it God will...
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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
Apr 26, 20231 min
Why Do We Get Sick?
The Church is hospital for us. Christ becomes our Doctor. His Love are the Divine Services, and participation in the Sacraments, all of...
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Serviam
Apr 14, 20232 min
Father Forgive Them.
Great and Holy Friday 2023 "Then they delivered Him to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led Him away. And He, bearing His Cross,...
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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 27, 20233 min
On Affliction, Pain and Labors.
Cling to our sweet Jesus, cry out to Him in your afflictions. Entrust to Him the care of grievous things and He will do good to you....
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Serviam
Mar 22, 20232 min
Christ is in Our Midst!
We do not choose the time we are to be born in this world, but we do choose how we will spend our time in this world. We choose how to...
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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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