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Serviam
Jul 31, 20223 min read
Holy Fathers of the First Six Councils
7th Sunday after Pentecost. Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the First Six Councils Martyr Emilian of Silistra in Bulgaria (363)....
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Serviam
Jul 29, 20222 min read
What is Death?
It is the age with which our true life begins. A man should not despair, no matter how great his sins, for a man is not saved by his good...
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Serviam
Jul 27, 20223 min read
Grace and Medicines are Necessary.
I am just a poor ascetic, who has grown old in the wilderness, and I wanted to heal only through faith. But I, too, am learning that...
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Serviam
Jul 25, 20222 min read
The Angelic Life.
Oh, if man would only lift his mind above this earthly realm to the heavenly Jerusalem, to the inconceivable beauty of paradise where...
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Serviam
Jul 18, 20222 min read
God is Good and Loves Mankind.
Bear your cross, and I shall bear mine, as we follow the heavenly Bridegroom, Christ, Who for us ungrateful sinners bore a Cross of...
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Serviam
Jul 15, 20226 min read
Personhood and the Value of Suffering (part two)
Jesus did not come to eliminate suffering. Rather, He transformed it. He endured His Cross so that we can endure ours. By the power of...
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Serviam
Jul 13, 20225 min read
Personhood and the Value of Suffering. (part one)
Man is a great mystery. The human being is crowned with the glory and honor of being the very image of God. Every human being is an icon...
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Serviam
Jul 11, 20224 min read
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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Serviam
Jul 7, 20223 min read
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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Serviam
Jul 5, 20223 min read
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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Serviam
Jul 1, 20222 min read
On The Will of God
It is a great good to give oneself up to the will of God. Then the Lord alone is in the soul. No other thought can enter in, and the soul...
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