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Hasty and Careless Prayer

Saint Theophan the Recluse   Coldness May the grace of God be with you. You write: ‘My prayer is somewhat cold and weak’. The coldness and weakness aren’t in the prayer, but in the person praying. Try to pray as you should and your prayer will go better. If a Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 10 monthsMarch 29, 2022 ago
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The mind at prayer seeks union with the heart

Saint Ignatij Brianchaninoff   The gates of the senses have been closed. The tongue is silent, the eyes shut and the ears hear nothing of what’s happening all around. The mind casts off the yoke of worldly thoughts, clothes itself in prayer and descends to the inner chamber of heart. Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 12 monthsFebruary 22, 2022 ago
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The Prayer of Righteous Symeon

Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios   At every Vespers, we hear the prayer: “Lord, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace, according to Your word; For my eyes have seen your salvation …” (Luke 2: 29-31). As St. Luke the Evangelist writes, it is with these words that the Righteous Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 yearFebruary 3, 2022 ago
The Children's Word

A Special Prayer for When We Enter the Holy Church

When you look around your church, do you see other kids too? Jesus invites all the kids to be close to Him. And church is a special place where we can worship all together—young people and old people, and everyone in between. Today, we celebrate a very special feastday of Read more…

By Presvytera Alexandra Houck, 1 yearNovember 19, 2021 ago
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‘Here’s to us; who’s like us?’

Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis   How often do we do something considered spiritual- prayer, church attendance, fasting, some alms-giving- and think we’ve become ‘Saint Anthony’. Because we compare ourselves… to ourselves. We ourselves are the criterion. It’s like somebody going on a run and thinking they’re running quickly. Then a proper Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 1 yearOctober 21, 2021 ago
The Prayer Team

We Should Go to the “Church of the Home” Seven Days a Week

We Should Go to the “Church of the Home” Seven Days a Week “Icon Corner” by Ted ©2011, Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Psalm 88:8(9) Every day I call upon You, O Lord; I spread out my hands to You. In the last reflection, we discussed how the primary activity of Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 1 yearOctober 6, 2021 ago
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GOD BLESS AMERICA!

And cause Thy whole nation and every tribe to know and understand that Thou art God, the God of all power and might, and that there is no other who protect the people of Israel but Thou alone! Judith 9:14   Good morning Prayer Team! Today we must all pause Read more…

By Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis, 1 yearSeptember 11, 2021 ago
The Children's Word

Can You Keep a Secret?

This Week’s Printable Children’s Word. Has anybody ever told you a secret? “Don’t tell anybody else,” you might have heard. But maybe the story was just too hard to keep a secret, and you told somebody else. A surprise party. A present. A fun trip coming up. Secrets are hard Read more…

By Presvytera Alexandra Houck, 2 yearsAugust 5, 2021 ago
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Prayer to Saint Sophrony

Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou   We thank Thee, O Christ our God, for that Thou hast given the place of this Monastery to Thy servant, our holy Elder Sophrony, as a refuge, as a comfort, unto sanctification, as an indestructible link with the communion of all Thy Saints and a wondrous Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsJuly 16, 2021 ago
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All that remains is prayer and love (On Saint Silouan the Athonite)

Saint Nicholas Velimirovich   When you go to the Holy Mountain and see the humble monks, you might think that they live a lazy life, without purpose. It may seem like this if you see things from the outside, because not many people are able to understand the terrible, unceasing Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 2 yearsJune 4, 2021 ago

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