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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Oct 3, 20232 min read
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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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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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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Jan 13, 20233 min read
The Secret in Illness.
The secret? To struggle to acquire the grace of God. We benefit greatly from our illnesses, as long as we endure them without complaint...
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Serviam
Dec 27, 20222 min read
The Healer who Heals.
It is clear that healing itself, while resulting from natural processes, actually comes from God. Dr. Jean-Claude Larchet St. Theophilus...
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Serviam
Oct 24, 20221 min read
Anti-Anxiety.
The answer to our anxiety is not drugs, alcohol, tranquilizers or psychiatric treatment. The anxieties of modern life are only symptoms...
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Serviam
Oct 9, 20222 min read
The Work of Perfection.
The contemporary debate concerning physician-assisted suicide is predicated, from the traditional Christian standpoint, first, on a...
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Serviam
Sep 2, 20223 min read
Illness and the Work of Perfection.
Even if we are bedridden, we are to continue the struggle against the passions, producing fruits worthy of repentance. This work of...
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Serviam
Jun 13, 20221 min read
In Brevity is Beauty.
Within our culture of noise 24/7 - a paradox occurs. Counterintuitively what garners the most impact is not who is the loudest, or talks...
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Serviam
Jun 8, 20222 min read
The Blessing of Being Sick.
Illness, then, is only evil in appearance. It can even constitute a blessing for man, in the sense that, if one uses it appropriately,...
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Serviam
May 20, 20223 min read
How To Overcome the Fear of Death.
This excerpt is taken from an exceptional and timely book authored by Physician and Orthodox Christian Dr. Daniel B. Hinshaw "Suffering...
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