Have You Seen Incense?
No one knows about it while it’s lying in the drawer. No one cares. But if you purposely place it on a red hot glowing coal, it fills the...
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Serviam
Aug 1, 20223 min read
Salvation through Suffering.
Not in flowers and gold, not in silver and precious stones is found the value of the Cross, but in the wounds of the Lord and His Most...
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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 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 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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Serviam
Jun 20, 20222 min read
Kill Your Will.
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...
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Serviam
Jun 17, 20221 min read
The Finish Line.
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...
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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 10, 20222 min read
Door Dash Doesn't Deliver.
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...
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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
Jun 6, 20222 min read
Leave it All to God.
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."...
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Serviam
Jun 2, 20222 min read
Harbor for Our Hope.
No matter where one lives on earth, trials must be endured. There is no escape from difficulty, pain and suffering. However, our...
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Serviam
May 25, 20223 min read
The Theology of Illness.
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'....
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Serviam
May 16, 20222 min read
Medicine Big Pharma Can't Make.
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...
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Serviam
May 4, 20222 min read
Follow Me.
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...
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Serviam
May 2, 20222 min read
God Has Not Forgotten You.
God did not come into the world to eradicate suffering. He did not come even to explain it. God came into the world to fill human...
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