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Serviam
Aug 15, 20225 min read
He (still) Makes House Calls.
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...
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Serviam
Aug 10, 20224 min read
"Lord, where are You?"
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 Is He near at hand, or remote and withdrawn?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...
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Serviam
Aug 8, 20225 min read
Yes, Lord.
God never gives you a Cross without first weighing and measuring it very carefully to make sure that the Cross will result in your...
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Serviam
Aug 5, 20223 min read
Suffering as Gift.
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...
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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 7, 20223 min read
Prayers of Thanksgiving, Protection, Deliverance
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...
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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 27, 20222 min read
Holy Unction.
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...
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Serviam
Jun 22, 20224 min read
Antidote for Anxiety. (part one)
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...
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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 1, 20222 min read
I Have Found a Physician.
St. Ambrose of Milan attributed this prayer to the Apostle Matthew, upon the occasion of the Apostle's conversion. "As Jesus went on from...
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Serviam
May 27, 20222 min read
The Purpose of Illness.
"Earthly life—this brief period—is given to man by the mercy of the Creator in order that man may use it for his salvation, that is, for...
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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 15, 20223 min read
A Bed That Walks.
Fourth Sunday of Pascha: The Paralyzed Man. After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in...
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Serviam
May 9, 20222 min read
Rise. Shine.
It is later than you think. The truth is that the illnesses, afflictions and tribulations of Christians brings about the cleansing of...
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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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