Greetings Ras Mike..Blessings to you and your family..blessings to all in the club. It's been a long time since i've been online..I just got back online and...
"Woe to us if He finds us overcharged with the cares and sorrows of this life! For who will be able to bear His anger, who will withstand the wrath of His...
"Acquire the spirit of peace and a thousand souls around you shall be saved" " Kontakion of St Seraphim of Sarov Tone 2 Having left the beauty of the world...
REFLECTION How do you respond to those who say that Christ the Miracle-worker cannot fit in our logic? Simply reply: You fit into His logic. In His logic, all...
THE VENERABLE SERAPHIM OF SAROV Seraphim was one of the greatest Russian ascetics, discerners and miracle-workers. He was born in 1759 A.D and died in 1833...
Subject: Where Are We Headed? In light of the many perversions and jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended...
THE EPIPHANY [THEOPHANY] OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST When our Lord reached thirty years from His physical birth, He began His teaching and salvific...
Mark 1:9-11 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. And straightway coming up out of...
REFLECTION On one of the stones in the Church of St. Sophia, the following words were engraved: "Wash your sins, not only your face." Whoever entered this...
About the concern for the salvation of our neighbors "No one should seek his own advantage, but that of his neighbor" (I Corinthians 10:24). This is the...
Peace is the integrity and health of the soul; to lose peace is to lose spiritual health.... When my soul is filled with a holy peace, then surely the King of...
1. SAINT PETER THE APOSTLE (THE CHAINS OF ST. PETER) Saint Peter is commemorated on this day because of the chains by which he was shackled by the lawless...
..Greetings...glory be to God ..i may have shared this one before ...but again let us pray...love and blessings to us all..+ + + + + A Prayer For The Precious...
Food for Thought . . . To love is easy and sweet. Oh! if we could only see the heart of a man who bears the evangelic yoke of Christ, you would see in it a ...
en someone gives his heart to God, then the mind of this man is also seized by the love of God. He is indifferent towards worldly things and continually thinks...
Lord and Master of my life, give me not a spirit of sloth, vain curiosity, lust for power and idle talk. But give to me, your servant, a spirit of soberness,...
HOMILY Against mediocrity and about fulfilling all the laws of God "These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone" (St. Luke 11:42). The law...
Greetings, You are so right. After denying God's presence in or lives and living like he never existed; now America is reaping the seeds it has sown. Many were...
God is a fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. Hence, if we feel in our hearts the cold which comes from the devil - for the devil is cold -...
O, may every one of us who cross ourselves with the Sign of the Cross not only find it easy to endure but with satisfaction receive the name "fool" for...
How the scattered seeds of the Lord, at first, seemingly decays in the physical mind, and how later it resurrects, grows, ripens and brings forth much...
Greets Mike I was at work the other day and a group of Assyrian-Indian Orthodox came in for lunch. With them was a monk who was dressed in beautiful robes, had...
....REFLECTION For as long as you are on earth, consider yourself a guest in the Household of Christ. If you are at the table, it is He who treats you. If you...
Let us use Great Lent to meditate on the Scriptures, to increase our worship of God, to receive often the Holy Mysteries, to pray, to fast, to give alms, and, ...
Just as the lightning precedes rain and hail, so shall His second coming precede the dreadful judgment which will be for the righteous and faithful like the...
THE ANNUNCIATION When the All-Holy Virgin completed the fourteenth year after her birth and was entering her fifteenth year, after having spent eleven years of...
Prayer of the Optina Elders O Lord, grant unto me that with Thy peace I may greet all that this day is to bring. Grant unto me grace to surrender myself...
in the Gospel, where again and again we see Christ conferring peace on his disciples. He tells bearers of the Gospel that, upon entering a dwelling, their...
