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...

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...

Almighty God, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, come to my help and deliver me from this difficulty that besets me. I believe...

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....

The great public prayer of the Church for those who are ill is the Service of Holy Unction. This Service, is long and exceedingly rich in...

Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they...

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...

The blood of martyrs, is the seed of the church. -Tertullian Sunday of All Saints - 1st Sunday after Pentecost. On this day, the Sunday...

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...

When waves of fear and uncertainty rise up, when swells of suffering taunt us - bodily illness can in no way harm us. If our soul is...

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...

Illness, then, is only evil in appearance. It can even constitute a blessing for man, in the sense that, if one uses it appropriately,...

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."...

Sunday of the 318 Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council - Nicea 325AD Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and...

And let them see their children’s children, like a newly-planted olive orchard, around their table; that, obtaining favor in Your sight, ...