O Lord, visit me in my suffering, and grant me grace and strength to bear this sickness with which I am afflicted, with Christian...

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...

The soul has to make a choice, and the outcome will either break it into pieces or enable it to sail to its destination in God....

It is impossible to escape tribulation in this world but the man who is given over to the will of God bears tribulation easily, seeing it...

How are you to know if you are living according to the will of God? He who lives according to God's will has no cares. The soul given...

Set aside your wish to find peace on this earth pre-maturely in order to receive it in time. That is, upon our death. Put to death your...

Do not forget your goal, my child. Look into the heavens and see the beauty that awaits us. Elder Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona What...

Within our culture of noise 24/7 - a paradox occurs. Counterintuitively what garners the most impact is not who is the loudest, or talks...

Eternity. One must inherit it. We need patience. No one is as dangerous to us as we ourselves, so remain a servant of God in the short...

Say, "My God, I leave my illness in Your holy Hands, and whenever You - Who love me so much - want to heal me, I will also want it then."...

No matter where one lives on earth, trials must be endured. There is no escape from difficulty, pain and suffering. However, our...

St. Ambrose of Milan attributed this prayer to the Apostle Matthew, upon the occasion of the Apostle's conversion. "As Jesus went on from...

There is no one, who in the course of a lifetime, has not had to face some form of illness. It's not 'if' we get sick, but rather 'when'....

This excerpt is taken from an exceptional and timely book authored by Physician and Orthodox Christian Dr. Daniel B. Hinshaw "Suffering...

When St. Basil the Great was asked if going to a doctor and taking medicine were in keeping with ways of piety, he replied: Saint Basil...

Which medicine brought about spiritual rebirth to the souls of men? Was it not the gigantic Cross of our Lord Jesus? If the Lord had...

It is later than you think. The truth is that the illnesses, afflictions and tribulations of Christians brings about the cleansing of...

In order to follow Christ, let us take up our cross. The taking up of our cross is called the willing pious submission to God’s judgment...

In the beginning, there was no pain, no suffering, no illness or death. Sin breeds evil, and evil breeds suffering.

Is to bear all suffering. Whether it comes from nature, indolence, sins, or people. Elder Ephraim Since we desire to live a Christ-like...