The Prayer Team
Choose Kindness — Every Gesture Matters
Kindness should be our personal goal, whether it is returned or not. If our goal is to be kind, kindness will blossom from us and spread.
The Prayer Team
We Must Be Merciful If We Expect God to Be Merciful
This article was originally published on August 20, 2017 Listen Now. We will now be including the daily reading of Epistle and Gospel with The Prayer Team. At that time, Jesus said this parable, “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his Read more…
The Children's Word
God Gives Us a Place in Heaven
Have you ever wondered what you’d do if you won a million dollars…or more? Would you keep most of it for yourself? Would you buy yourself lots of things you’ve always wanted? Or maybe, would you share some of it with others? In today’s epistle reading, Saint Paul tells us Read more…
Pemptousia Partnership
God’s Saving Mercy
Abbot Tryphon We are not compelled to love God, having been created with free will. God does not, nor can He, compel His creatures to love Him. Mutual love requires, by it’s very nature, freedom to either respond in love, or not. Yet when we respond to God’s love with Read more…
The Children's Word
Be the One Who Shows Mercy
Have you ever wondered how many times we say, “Lord, have mercy!” in the Liturgy? We say it almost 50 times! We say it so many times because we want God to hear us. We want God to forgive us, and keep us with Him even though we don’t always Read more…
Pemptousia Partnership
God’s Mercy
Metropolitan Ioïl (Frangkakos) of Edessa, Pella, and Almopia ‘As you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me’. In the parables used by the Lord, He repeats the phrase ‘the kingdom of heaven is like… (Matth. 22,2) that is, He compares Read more…