During an illness first of all entrust yourself to God in order to strengthen your spirit in the midst of your misery. From the Works of...

Have you ever thought that everything that touches you touches Me as well? For that which touches you touches the apple of My eye. You...

It is never so difficult to say from the heart, "Thy Will be done, Father," as when we are in sore affliction or grievous sickness, and...

One such candle was Romanian priest Fr. George Calciu. He and his family lived quietly until the communist government renewed its...

In the Eucharist, the baptized person receives Christ Who, in His Body and Blood, gives Himself entirely, not just as man, but also as...

Christ visits us. He is with us. He is in us. He heals us. We pray in the Trisagion prayers, “Holy One visit and heal our infirmities...

I have no fear. Because I have given myself to Him, because I have surrendered myself to Him, I have no fear. I’m on my way to heaven....

Is God absent or present? Is He near at hand, or remote and withdrawn? It’s a matter of how you look at it. Elder Aimilianos of...

God never gives you a Cross without first weighing and measuring it very carefully to make sure that the Cross will result in your...

8th Sunday after Pentecost. The Dormition of the Righteous Anna, mother of the Most Holy Theotokos. Synaxis of Saints of Smolensk Holy...

But suffering, as the crowning of a man bearing his cross, gives birth in his heart to great Divine joy. As a mother grieves during the...

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...

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...

7th Sunday after Pentecost. Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the First Six Councils Martyr Emilian of Silistra in Bulgaria (363)....

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...

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...

Oh, if man would only lift his mind above this earthly realm to the heavenly Jerusalem, to the inconceivable beauty of paradise where...

"...for I AM Holy..." Let us abandon ourselves in trust to the love of God When we surrender ourselves to Christ, our spiritual...

Bear your cross, and I shall bear mine, as we follow the heavenly Bridegroom, Christ, Who for us ungrateful sinners bore a Cross of...

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...