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Choose to Serve — Don’t Be Self-Serving
To serve means to offer service as it is needed, not necessarily in how we want to serve. Focus not just on work, but ministry through service.
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The wretched and the more wretched
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis ‘Whoever falls is pitiable. But more wretched is someone who entices another into falling because that person then bears the burden of both, as well as the burden of pleasure tasted by the other’ (Saint John of Sinai, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, discourse 15). The saint Read more
The Prayer Team
Choose Joy — Seeing God in All Things
We try to place blame in all circumstances, even with nothing to blame. When faced with problems, we must identify causes and find solutions.
The Prayer Team
Choose to See the Best in People
There are lots of circumstances that are beyond our control. How we look at certain circumstances is a choice. Be a glass half full person.
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The Best I Can With What I Have
Today we think that more is better. What God expects is our best effort. A good motto is, “The best I can with what I have.” Circumstances
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Bearing within Us the Dying of the Lord Jesus
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou Today’s Epistle (2nd Sunday of luke) reading preaches with assurance the paradoxical and antinomical truth that in the life of the disciples of Christ, sorrow and joy, death and life depend on each other and alternate, as long as there is faith in God and surrendering Read more
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Urgency and Irony
Sunday Epistles & Gospels Third Sunday of Luke Urgency & Irony Epistle Reading for the Third Sunday of Luke II Corinthians 6:1-10 Working together with Him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain. For He says, “At the acceptable time I have listened to Read more
The Children's Word
Can You Look Past the Sadness?
We’ve all heard sad stories, haven’t we? Sometimes things are hard for people, or even for us. In today’s Gospel reading, we hear one of the saddest of all. We hear about a woman whose son had died. She was already a widow—her husband had died. Now her son had Read more
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Understanding of the Divine Liturgy is necessary
Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios The greatest and most blessed event in the history of mankind was the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ to earth for His salvific work. Many of us may envy the people who lived at that time in Galilee and Judea, because they were privileged Read more
The Prayer Team
Choosing to Thrive in My Circumstances: Part I
One of the keys to life is learning how to thrive in every circumstance, and making the choice to give glory to God in each circumstance.
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Don’t Be Ordinary — Be Extraordinary
Don’t Be Ordinary — Be Extraordinary Isaiah 62:11-12 Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, “Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.” And they shall be called The Holy People, the redeemed