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
Nov 29, 20233 min read
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 read
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 read
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 20, 20233 min read
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
Aug 21, 20234 min read
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 read
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 read
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 24, 20236 min read
Radonitsa - Day of Rejoicing!
I greet you in these bright days of Pascha, with the ever-fragrant newness of the greeting rich with the truth of the Divine energy of...
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Serviam
Apr 16, 20232 min read
Trampling Down Death.
Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing Life! Christ is Risen! Truly He is...
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Serviam
Apr 14, 20232 min read
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 22, 20232 min read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 11, 20237 min read
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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